Compositor
The compositor is tasked with the job of compiling the selection of elements that make up an FX shot into one image. Thus the word compose, becomes compositing. Particularly engaged with lighting as the various elements need to be believed to be from the same lighting space. Scale, perspective and a very good eye for detail are other aspects of this work as the compositor strives to make the image believable. Careful and painstaking work this job is not for the faint hearted, but is a great progression from rotoscoping which serves the compositor. The compositor is a much more creative and rewarding job, but you must like working in dark rooms in front of a screen for many hours on end.
With increasingly powerful computers available for home use, digital film techniques such as compositing allow fantastic film techniques to employed relatively simply. Recently whilst working on a short film over a weekend we shot a bunch of individual actors against a greenscreen over e few hours. By the end of the day these characters in various poses had been isolated from the green background screen and dropped into a digital film set using a programme called Nuke. Aside from actors there was a camera operator, the director and one rigging/lighting person, an operation on a very small scale. The director did his own compositing.
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