Art Department

The visual architect of the entire production. The production designer creates the overall look and feel of every environment in the film. They design sets, select locations, establish color palettes, and guide period accuracy. They work directly with the director and DP to ensure every visual element serves the story.

The production designer's right hand and department manager. Oversees set construction schedules and budgets, manages the art department staff, creates technical drawings and blueprints, and ensures the designer's vision is executed precisely.

Selects and arranges everything that furnishes a set -- furniture, draperies, rugs, lamps, artwork, tchotchkes. If an actor doesn't touch it, it's set dressing. The set decorator works closely with the production designer but has enormous creative autonomy in filling the world with authentic detail.

The set decorator's foreman. Manages the swing gang (set dressers), coordinates deliveries, and oversees the physical installation of all set decoration.

The crew that physically installs and removes set decoration. They load trucks, carry furniture, hang pictures, lay carpet, and 'swing' sets between shooting days -- stripping one set and dressing the next, often overnight.

Sources, creates, and manages all hand props -- any object an actor picks up, touches, or interacts with. From hero props (a character's signature weapon or heirloom) to consumables (food and drinks that need to match take after take), the props master handles it all.

Assists the props master on set, managing continuity of props between takes, preparing consumable props, maintaining the prop truck inventory, and handling specialty props.

Paints sets, backdrops, and scenic elements. Specialties include faux finishing (making new materials look old), sign painting, murals, texture creation, and aging/distressing surfaces to match the story's time period.

Manages the construction crew that builds sets from the ground up. Reads blueprints, hires carpenters and laborers, manages construction budgets and schedules, and ensures sets are built safely and to specification.

Creates all printed materials that appear on camera -- newspapers, letters, signs, product labels, computer screens, phone screens, documents. Everything the camera sees that has text or graphics on it.