Well It Took More Than Two Years...

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But IMDB finally listed me for one of the projects I've worked on. Here is my IMDB page, feel free to flame me on its Bulletin Board: www.imdb.com/name/nm3717416/

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Not to diminish your accomplishment, but what exactly does a second second assistant director do?

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Dec 14, 2009 17:30:21 GMT -5 I Like Your Poetry said:

Not to diminish your accomplishment, but what exactly does a second second assistant director do?

That's alright. To understand what a second second assistant director does you kind of have to know what an assistant director in general does.

A first assistant director from my experiences is kind of a misleading title as they are not involved with the "creative work" or anything that the director and people like the director of photography focus on. Instead they work as timekeepers making sure that what the director/producers want done gets accomplished within the shooting schedule. So say for instance, 15 scenes need to be shot in a day. The first assistant director makes sure that gets done by doing things like making sure the special effects, make-up and costumes departments all have of what a scene needs, prepared for what it is shot.

Now because there can be so much to do between communicating with the departments and smaller things like wrangling actors and working with craft services, it is not practical for one person to do all of this work. So the assistant for the first assistant director is called there second assistant director and the assistant to the second assistant director is usually called the second second assistant director (though sometimes they are referred to as third assistant director).