Cameraman

see also: Etymology of Cameraman

The cameraman of film, also called " opérateur" (the " term; Caméraman" is a forgery Anglicisme), is an essential collaborator of the Mise in scene. He operates the film camera (Caméra), ensuring the composition of the plans and the movements of apparatus.

The choice of the parameters of catch of sights related to the framework - place of the apparatus, choice of the objective (focal distance), place of the actor S and the elements of the Decoration, rhythmic of the movements - is done in close cooperation with the Réalisateur, which proposes sometimes precise things but can also await proposals that the cameraman must always be able to make according to the Scénario and of the problems of the Montage to come.

Historically, with the invention and the artificial use of sources of light and the appearance of the Director of the photography, or operator Chief of catch of sights, it is also called Chef assistant operator and works in close cooperation with him.

Also the cameraman takes part it largely, just like the Director of the photography or it (or it) Scripte (script girl, script-servant boy) in the development and the production of the plans, of the question of the connection of plan in plan and sequence to sequence, which are seldom turned chronologically, in the continuity of the Scénario.

He is the first Spectateur film and has also the memory of the parameters of the turned plans.

Since the generalization of the presence of Monitor S of return on the plates, making it possible the Director to follow the Scene during its Turning, this aspect of the things appreciably evolved/moved, since he is not any more the only spectator of the scene such as she will be seen with the screen.

The cameraman is assisted of a First assistant operator, who ensures the preparation of the Caméra and the accessories necessary to the turning of the plan and ensures the settling during the catches.

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