As a new producer of a film I'm planning to direct, I would like to understand the difference between a cinematographer and a Dp? Who operates the camera also?
Cinematography : What's the difference by Tay Ouk
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Without getting into a lengthy history lesson now days they are pretty much the same! ( European = Cinema photographer -Hollywood / USA = Director of Photography
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As far as the who operated the camera! In the past a camera operator, now days you can have a dp / operator, or cinema photographer/ operator, or better yet director/ operator, my recommendation is have a camera operator, so your DP and Director can concentrate on the scene.
I like to have an operator - as I like to shoot with two cameras at the same time - which has become the norm. it saves time and makes the day. one camera on two shot, one on a CU - etc. They shoot from the same angle or up to about 30% off. I like operators because then I can concentrate in what the lighting looks like as the actors move, look at the monitors and come up with the next framing/camera positioning, etc. Sometimes i will operate. Lots of younger DPs like to operate.
On my sets, which are small crew, I like to have a camera operator which may fit any of the titles you have listed but usually go by DP. If titles are important to the people working on the project you may have to credit them accordingly.
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About got it all covered in the answers above these days everyone is doing more then double duty just to even land a paying project or that's the case here on the Indie Scene and I am pretty sure its like that all over these days.