A 1st assistant director — variously known as the 1st AD and the first — is the director 's chief assistant. They are the supervisor of the rest of the directorial staff, and therefore is responsible for the work of the 2nd AD , 3rd AD and most runners . During the 1963 version of Doctor Who , this position was usually credited as a production assistant , a term that, confusingly, is now equivalent to a runner . (DCOM : The Android Invasion )
Beyond this supervisory role, though, the first is specifically responsible for the assembly of the shooting schedule. (CON : A Brush with Genius ) This is usually accomplished by consulting with the director , storyboard artist , and, if necessary, pre-visualisation technician to compile a shot-by-shot plan of the entire episode. They then must estimate how much time it will take to achieve each shot and create a timetable for completing the entire episode. Once the schedule is devised in pre-production , it is up to the first to ensure that principal photography proceeds according to that plan, ever mindful that the schedule has budgetary implications. In the same way that the production manager turns the producer 's plans into concrete action, so, too, does the first take care of the practical details of filming so that the director's creative choices can be brought to life.
One of the most obvious ways in which the first controls the pace of filming is by "calling the roll". It is usually the first's voice that is heard actually directing the camera department and actors to proceed through filming. The first will call for "quiet on the set", or some variation thereof, to indicate that filming is imminent; instruct the camera and sound departments to "turnover", or begin rolling the film and audio stock; and, perhaps more famously, to call "action" to get the actors to begin the scene. Of course, the director is ultimately in control of photography, and may choose to make these calls personally, especially that of "action". Graeme Harper , in particular, seems to prefer to be the one to call "action", judging by outtakes from Doctor Who Confidential .
The first (sometimes through the second or third) is also the usual point of contact between the director and the rest of the production team. They will make sure (usually through the second) that the production office has daily reports of the progress of filming. Actors and other production personnel will usually be kept ready to make their contributions to a shot by the first and his or her assistants.
Story
1st assistant director
42
Gareth Williams (assistant director)
Adam
Richard Harris
Adrift
Rhidian Evans
An Adventure in Space and Time
Simon Maloney
The Age of Steel
Clare Nicholson
Aliens of London
George Gerwitz
The Almost People
Gareth Williams (assistant director)
Amy's Choice
Kiaran Murray-Smith
The Angels Take Manhattan
Fay Selby
Arachnids in the UK
Seth Adams
Army of Ghosts
Susie Liggat
Asylum of the Daleks
Fay Selby
Bad Wolf
Peter Bennett
The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos
Matt Jennings
The Beast Below
Steve Robinson
Before the Flood
Scott Bates
The Bells of Saint John
Nick Brown
The Big Bang
Marcus Catlin
Blink
Gareth Williams (assistant director)
The Blood Line
Jefferson Kibbee
Boom Town
Howard Arundel
Brave-ish Heart
Andy Gradwell
Can You Hear Me?
Guy Murray-Brown
Captain Jack Harkness
Nick Rae
The Caretaker
Jo Lea
The Categories of Life
W. Scott Wolf , George Walker
Children of Earth: Day Five
Steffan Morris
Children of Earth: Day Four
Steffan Morris
Children of Earth: Day One
Rhydian Evans
Children of Earth: Day Three
Steffan Morris
Children of Earth: Day Two
Rhydian Evans
A Christmas Carol
Mick Pantaleo
The Christmas Invasion
Jon Older
The Church on Ruby Road
Gareth Tandy
Closing Time
Sarah Davies
Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart
Andy Gradwell
The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo
Matthew Scrivener
Cold Blood
Marcus Catlin
Cold War
Ken Cumberland
Combat
Jon Williams
Countrycide
Jon Williams
The Crimson Horror
Nick Brown
The Curse of Clyde Langer
Richard Harris
The Curse of Fatal Death
Tim Lewis
The Curse of the Black Spot
Nick Brown
Cyberwoman
Nick Brown
Dalek
Gareth Williams (assistant director)
Daleks in Manhattan
Peter Bennett
Dark Water
Simon Morris
Day One
Peter Bennett
A Day in the Death
Rhidian Evans
The Day of the Clown
Steffan Morris
The Day of the Doctor
Fay Selby
Day of the Moon
Martin Curry
Dead Man Walking
Rhidian Evans
Dead of Night
Jefferson Kibbee
Death in Heaven
Simon Morris
Death of the Doctor
Richard Harris
Deep Breath
Simon Morris
Demons of the Punjab
Matt Jennings
Detained
Marios Hamboulides
Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
Nick Brown
The Doctor Dances
Jon Older
The Doctor Falls
Dan Mumford
Doctor Who
Patrice Leung
The Doctor's Daughter
Gareth Williams (assistant director)
The Doctor's Wife
Mick Pantaleo
The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
Matthew Shrivener
Doomsday
Susie Liggat
Earthshock (TotT
Michael Williams
The Eaters of Light
Simon Morris
The Eleventh Hour
John Bennett (assistant director)
Empress of Mars
Sarah Davies , Marios Hamboulides
The Empty Child
Jon Older
The Empty Planet
Richard Harris
End of Days
Nick Rae
The End of Time
Peter Bennett
End of the Road
Jefferson Kibbee
The End of the World
Lloyd Elis
Enemy of the Bane
Lloyd Elis
Escape to LA
Polly Mattson
The Eternity Trap
Guy de Glanville
Eve of the Daleks
Christopher J Thomas
Everything Changes
Peter Bennett
Evolution of the Daleks
Peter Bennett
Extras: The Special
Sam Dawking
Extremis
Fletcher Rodley
Eye of the Gorgon
Dan Mumford
Face the Raven
Sarah Davies
The Family of Blood
Richard Harris
Father's Day
Gareth Williams (assistant director)
Fear Her
Peter Bennett
The Fires of Pompeii
Dan Mumford
Flatline
Jo Lea
Flesh and Stone
Dan Mumford
For Tonight We Might Die
Matthew Scrivener
Forest of the Dead
Dan Mumford
Fragments
Nic Britz
From Out of the Rain
Nic Britz
Fugitive of the Judoon
Dan Mumford
The Gathering
W. Scott Wolf , George Walker
Ghost Machine
Nick Rae
The Ghost Monument
Fletcher Rodley
The Gift
Guy de Glanville
The Giggle
James Emmott
The Girl Who Died
Scott Bates
The Girl Who Waited
William Hartley
The Girl in the Fireplace
Peter Bennett
The God Complex
William Hartley
A Good Man Goes to War
Toby Ford
Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith
Mike O'Regan
Greeks Bearing Gifts
Nick Rae
Gridlock
Dan Mumford
The Halloween Apocalypse
Christopher J Thomas
Heaven Sent
Scott Bates
Hell Bent
Scott Bates
Hide
John Bennett (assistant director)
Human Nature
Richard Harris
The Hungry Earth
Marcus Catlin
The Husbands of River Song
Francesco Reidy
The Idiot's Lantern
Peter Bennett
Immortal Sins
Jefferson Kibbee
The Impossible Astronaut
Martin Curry
The Impossible Planet
Gareth Williams (assistant director)
In the Forest of the Night
Jo Lea
Into the Dalek
Simon Morris
Invasion of the Bane
Mark Hedges
It Takes You Away
Sarah Davies
Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS
Jonathan Farmer
Journey's End
Simon Morris
Kerblam!
Ben Rogers
Kill the Moon
Scott Bates
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Nick Brown
Knock Knock
Sarah Davies
Last Christmas
Scott Bates
The Last Sontaran
Simon Morris
Last of the Time Lords
Peter Bennett
The Lazarus Experiment
Dan Mumford
Legend of the Sea Devils
Christopher J Thomas , Elaine Mackenzie
Let's Kill Hitler
Steffan Morris
The Lie of the Land
Simon Morris
Listen
Scott Bates
The Lodger
Kiaran Murray-Smith
The Long Game
Gareth Williams (assistant director)
The Lost
Matthew Scrivener
The Lost Boy
Dan Mumford
Lost in Time
Mike O'Regan
Love & Monsters
Susie Liggat
The Mad Woman in the Attic
Guy de Glanville
The Magician's Apprentice
Dan Mumford
The Man Who Never Was
Richard Harris
The Mark of the Berserker
Simon Morris
Meat
Marco Ciglia
The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did
Marios Hamboulides
The Middle Men
W. Scott Wolf , George Walker
Midnight
Gareth Williams (assistant director)
The Mind Robber (TotT
Michael Williams
Mona Lisa's Revenge
Simon Morris
Mummy on the Orient Express
Scott Bates
The Name of the Doctor
Nick Brown
New Earth
Jon Older
The New World
W. Scott Wolf , George Walker
The Next Doctor
Richard Harris
Night Terrors
Mick Pantaleo
The Nightmare Man
Mike O'Regan
Nightmare in Silver
Fay Selby
Nightvisiting
Matthew Scrivener
Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror
Dan Mumford
Once, Upon Time
Charles Curran
Orphan 55
Barry Phillips
Out of Time
Nick Rae
Oxygen
Simon Morris
The Pandorica Opens
Marcus Catlin
The Parting of the Ways
Peter Bennett
Partners in Crime
James Blackwell
The Pilot
Fletcher Rodley , Seth Adams
Planet of the Dead
John Bennett (assistant director)
Planet of the Ood
Gareth Williams (assistant director)
The Poison Sky
Francesco Reidy
The Power of Three
Sarah Davies
The Power of the Doctor
Christopher J Thomas
Praxeus
Dan Mumford
Prisoner of the Judoon
Simon Morris
The Pyramid at the End of the World
Fletcher Rodley
Random Shoes
Nael Abbas , Daf Arwyn Jones
The Rebel Flesh
Gareth Williams (assistant director)
Rendition
Jefferson Kibbee
Reset
Nick Brown
Resolution
Nicki Ballantyne
The Return of Doctor Mysterio
Fletcher Rodley
Revenge of the Slitheen
Gareth Williams (assistant director)
Revolution of the Daleks
Guy Murray-Brown
The Rings of Akhaten
David Mack
Rise of the Cybermen
Clare Nicholson
Robot of Sherwood
Jo Lea
Rosa
Fletcher Rodley
Rose
George Gerwitz
The Runaway Bride
Peter Bennett
The Satan Pit
Gareth Williams (assistant director)
School Reunion
Jon Older
Secrets of the Stars
Steffan Morris
The Shakespeare Code
Gareth Williams (assistant director)
Silence in the Library
Dan Mumford
Sky
Richard Harris
Sleep No More
Dan Mumford
Sleeper
Marco Ciglia
Small Worlds
Nick Rae
Smile
Fletcher Rodley
Smith and Jones
Gareth Williams (assistant director)
The Snowmen
Nick Brown
Something Borrowed
James DeHaviland
The Sontaran Stratagem
Francesco Reidy
The Sound of Drums
Peter Bennett
Spyfall
Dan Mumford , Barry Phillips
The Star Beast
Scott Bates
The Stolen Earth
Simon Morris
Survivors of the Flux
Charles Curran
The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
Lloyd Elis
The Curse of Fenric (TotT
Michael Williams
The Time of the Doctor
John Bennett (assistant director)
They Keep Killing Suzie
Nick Brown
Thin Ice
Sarah Davies
The Three Doctors (TotT
Michael Williams
Time Heist
Scott Bates
The Time Meddler (TotT
Michael Williams
The Time of Angels
Dan Mumford
The Timeless Children
Christopher J Thomas
To the Last Man
Richard Harris
Tooth and Claw
Peter Bennett
A Town Called Mercy
Nick Brown
The Tsuranga Conundrum
Ben Rogers
Turn Left
Simon Morris
Twice Upon a Time
Mark Hedges
Under the Lake
Scott Bates
The Unicorn and the Wasp
Gareth Williams (assistant director)
The Unquiet Dead
Lloyd Elis
Utopia
Gareth Williams (assistant director)
The Vampires of Venice
John Bennett (assistant director)
The Vanquishers
Charles Curran
The Vault of Secrets
Mike O'Regan
Vengeance on Varos (TotT
Michael Williams
Victory of the Daleks
Steve Robinson
Village of the Angels
Christopher J Thomas
Vincent and the Doctor
John Bennett (assistant director)
Voyage of the Damned
Peter Bennett
War of the Sontarans
Christopher J Thomas
Warriors of Kudlak
Dan Mumford
The Waters of Mars
William Hartley
The Wedding of River Song
Nick Brown
The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
Simon Morris
Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?
Mike O'Regan
Wild Blue Yonder
Gareth Tandy
The Witch's Familiar
Dan Mumford
The Witchfinders
Seth Adams
The Woman Who Fell to Earth
Sarah Davies
World War Three
George Gerwitz
The Zygon Invasion
Dan Mumford
The Zygon Inversion
Dan Mumford
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