A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera (the art and science of which is known as cinematography). The title is generally equivalent to director of photography (DP or DoP), used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image. The term cinematographer has been a point of contention for some time now; some professionals insist that it only applies when the director of photography and camera operator are the same person, although this is far from being uniformly the case. To most, cinematographer and director of photography are interchangeable terms.
Some of the crew who work under or closely with the cinematographer include:
camera operator
focus puller (1st assistant cameraman)
clapper loader (2nd assistant cameraman)
second unit
assistant camera trainee (camera production assistant)
gaffer, best boy, and electricians (also called Set Lighting Technicians, Lamp Operators or nicknamed "sparks" or "juicers")
key grip, best boy grip, dolly grip, grips
production designer and art director
costume designer
color timer or colorist
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