Assistant director: duties and features of the profession

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

A job description is required for every profession. The assistant director will not be an exception here. Die in a creative environment. We will analyze the profession from a "technical" point of view - job responsibilities, requirements for a specialist. And in conclusion, let's get acquainted with the opinion of the already held assistance about our work.

Two categories of activity

Assistant director - a specialist whose creative work is divided into two categories, each of which has certain requirements, features:

• Death of the second category. The specialist must have a professional higher education in the field of art and culture. In this case, there is no requirement for work experience. The second option is secondary vocational education in the field of art and culture. It requires work experience (of course, in a similar structure) for at least three years.
• Death of the first category. Specialists are both accepted for the position and transferred from the above-mentioned category. If the applicant has a higher professional education in the direction of "culture" or "art", thenat least three years of work experience in the speci alty. If vocational secondary education, then work experience should count for at least 5 years.

During the absence of the assistant director at the workplace (sick leave, vacation, etc.), his duties are transferred to an employee appointed in the prescribed manner. This employee assumes the duties of a helper, temporarily takes over his rights. During replacement, he is fully responsible for failure to perform or improper performance of his temporary duties.

Assistant director in a theater or cinema - a qualification professional group "Positions of workers in art, cinematography, culture of the middle level." Standardized by order of the Ministry of He alth and Social Development of the Russian Federation No. 570 (August 31, 2007).

Applicant requirements

Although the assistant director is a creative activity, the requirements for a specialist are quite specific and clear. Pomrezh must know:

• Legislation and regulations of the Russian Federation governing the activities of a performing arts institution.
• Structure of the organization to which the citizen applied.
• Features of the creative and organizational process in the employer's institution.
• The basics of acting, directing, musical literacy, vocal, choreographic, choral art, as well as stage and musical accompaniment of productions.
• Stage equipment, its generaldevice.
• Fundamentals of stage technology, management and economics - with regards to the performing arts.
• Organization of technical and material support regarding the creative process.
• The main rules of personnel management.
• Basics of labor law.
• Rules of working internal regulations in the organization where the applicant is employed.
• Norms and rules of safety, labor protection, fire safety, industrial sanitation, etc.

Main responsibilities and tasks

The vacancy "assistant director" defines three main functions of a specialist:

• Direct participation in the organization and planning of productions.
• Drawing up plans for rehearsals, schedules, which also implies a call for the participation of the required specialists. This includes not only organization, but also accounting for creative activities.
• Providing both rehearsals and performances with all required materials and props.

Job Responsibilities

The duties of an assistant director are the following labor functions:

• Direct participation in the organization and planning of both new and previously presented productions.
• Following the instructions of the production director regarding the preparatory period for organizing the production.
• Participation in the preparation of rehearsal plans, schedules, schedules for a new production.
• Providing all necessaryrehearsal materials.
• Providing rehearsals with all the required props - furniture, decorations, musical instruments, elements of background noise design, phonograms.
• Calling artists, prompter and other specialists to rehearsals.
• During rehearsals - assistant director.
• According to the schedule established in this performing arts institution, duty at rehearsals, performances, performances and concerts.
• Conducting separate rehearsals, searching for new performers on behalf of the production director.
• Accounting for performances, rehearsals, concerts and productions, as well as other creative activities of artistic and artistic personnel.
• Fulfilling the tasks of the director regarding the organization, planning and accounting of creative activities.

Specialist Rights

Assistant director in Moscow and other cities will have the same rights:

• Participation in meetings held on organizational issues.
• Request and receipt from structural divisions of documents and materials necessary for labor activity.
• Participation in the discussion of issues that directly affect his professional creative work.
• Requiring management of a performing arts organization to assist in fulfilling duties and exercising labor rights.

Responsibility of a specialist

The job of "assistant director" requiresfollowing specialist responsibility:

• For failure to perform or improper or incomplete performance of their work duties (which are provided for by the job description of a specialist) in the manner dictated by Russian labor legislation.
• For offenses that were committed during employment. Responsibility is dictated by the administrative, criminal and civil legislation of Russia.
• For causing damage to the organization that is the employer of the victim. In the order that the current Russian labor legislation establishes.

About profession

Vacancy "assistant director" in Moscow and other cities is often open. Let's see how those people who have already managed to visit the death camp speak about her.

The invariable attribute of the assistant director is the so-called cracker. This is a board with a bar on a hinge, on which the main information about the shooting process is written - the title of the work, director, cameraman, date of shooting, take, frame. Clapping this device then helps to match the audio and video track.

An assistant director never sits idle on set. He needs to appear in the frame at a certain moment with his "clapperboard". The art of doing it right comes with experience. Notes on the clapperboard and in the editing list, director's comments, marking the best takes and shots already shot are the direct duties of the remake.

Features of work

The work of the assistant director on the set belongs to the category of voluminous, but hardly noticeable to others. The dead have no time to rest. It is also his duty to prepare and bring coffee to the director. Labor shift - 12 hours. Moreover, the shooting takes place not only in the pavilion, but also in nature - in the forest or in the swamp, on a hot day, in a snowstorm or in the rain, in the city and at mountain heights. Pomrezh accompanies the filming process always, under any conditions. Hence, strong immunity is required.

Die - usually students of creative universities or recent graduates. They are attracted by the opportunity to gain experience, to work with the masters of their craft. Someone - the likelihood of becoming a second director over time.

Specialists say that communication skills, resistance to stress and the ability to act as an "arbitrator" are important for the helper. During filming, the entire creative team becomes one big family, but misunderstandings are not uncommon. The task of the pomage is to stop the conflict at the beginning of development.

On labor exchanges, I must say, such a vacancy rarely appears. In a creative environment, word of mouth is more relevant.

Pros of work

In their feedback about their favorite work, the mourners put forward the following advantages of the profession:

• Transfer of experience from the director. Pomrezh sees how he organizes the filming process, communicates with the actors, and cooperates with the operator. This knowledge is sometimes enough to shoot your own film. A lot of directors"grew" from the dead.
• Communication with creative people. Not only is rotation in a creative team inspiring, but it is constantly endowing with new experiences and ideas. Pomrezh is also "acquiring" the necessary business connections.
• The opportunity to take the role of a leader, organizer, develop teamwork skills.

Assistant director - an ordinary, but rather interesting creative speci alty. We dismantled it from all sides - technical, official. And looked at her, so to speak, from the inside.