What are the key staff and crew positions on a reality show?

What are the key staff and crew positions on a reality show?

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Every reality show has a show runner. Every show has a story department. That would be the producers who would be primarily involved with the questioning and the direction of character development on the stories. Every show has a huge post-production department where a lot of assistant editors and loggers are going through mountains of videotape and making sure that no good moments go unnoticed. The key positions - everything else, of course - are segment producers and associate producers; those are all the people that physically make everything happen. Fixed cameras, robotic cameras, and locked cameras: all of that comes into play also.