Explain Movie job titles?

Director is the person who actually directs the main action of the movie.

Assistant directors or 2nd (3rd) unit directors are those who deal with background action or shots not directly related to the main action of the movie.

Producers are generally those who put up money to get a movie made. Executive producers are usually the main money people. And in some cases an Executive producer may be very hands on with the day to day details of the movie - Jerry Bruckheimer and George Lucas are like this.

Associate producers have some smaller part to play. And they may not even be directly related to the production of the movie. Sometimes producer credits are given in exchange for favors.

Screenplay - or more specifically the screenwriters - are the people who wrote the script for the movie. They may be the people who actually wrote the screenplay from the source material or their own original ideas, or they may be the people who were on set to handle rewriting lines.

The Cinematographer is basically the camera man. They deal with actually capturing the action on camera. Besides operating the cameras, they will often give feedback to the director about how to achieve a desired look and how to deal with lighting and what not.

Even though you didn't ask:

A Grip is a person who moves things around on set. The Key Grip is the chief grip, like a foreman.

The Gaffer is the person in charge of the electrical department and he will usually have an assistant called the Best Boy.

This link should better answer all of your questions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_crew

Movie Job Titles

Director?the big boss of everyone below

Producer? puts up money for the movie

Associate Producer? rich guy also has money aka investor

Exec. Producer? head honcho puts up the most money for filming think of them as investors who want a huge return/profit

Screenplay? writes the lines the actors say

Cinematography? cameraman, make sthe shots look cool.

Look on this website, it'll tell you all you need to know

http://movies.about.com/library/glossary/blglossar...