How cinema is made to be cinema (and what role do I have in it)

When it comes to cinema, there is a great variety of areas, hierarchies and roles within the production that allow the creation of a film. Although these points are not written in stone, it is important to highlight the fundamental parts that make up the cinematographic process.

The most important roles inside the production can be divided according to the process in which a film is made. The process starts in the preproduction, which corresponds to the process of planning the project in charge of the producers, including script writing, financing, casting, etc. Once the preparations are ready, the filming process begins,  the material for the film is filmed on the set with the supervision of the director. Here the process is subdivided according to the areas of photo, sound and art. This areas are in charge of an exact group of attendees. After this comes the editing process where the film material is gathered and the plot of the film is built by an editor.  After having already made the official version of the film, it goes to the post production process, where two objectives are met: fix the errors of photo or sound and give the film its final touches, such as the color of the film or the  music.

As you can see there are key roles, such as the role of director, producer, editor or director of photography, which ones are essential for the creation of the movie. With all this in mind, my role in the creation of a film depends, this is due not only to the aforementioned but also due to the skills that one develops over time. I usually do sound recording work, animation and video editing. As for the sound recording, my role consists mainly in the recording of the dialogues and sounds in the shootings. In the case of editing, it consists of reviewing the footage and ordering it according to what the director says and the purpose of the video, be it a short film or a commercial. And in the case of animation, my work is mostly creating digital animated videos for various reasons, whether they are informative or commercial.