Director
Encyclopedia
Arts
- Director (band)Director (band)Director are an award-winning Irish art rock quartet from Malahide in County Dublin. The band's members are Michael Moloney , Eoin Aherne , Shea Lawlor and Rowan Averill ....
, an Irish rock band from Malahide - Film directorFilm directorA film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
- Music directorMusic directorA music director may be the director of an orchestra, the director of music for a film, the director of music at a radio station, the head of the music department in a school, the co-ordinator of the musical ensembles in a university or college , the head bandmaster of a military band, the head...
- Music video directorMusic video directorA music video director is driven by a given music track. These are called music videos and are then used as promotional tools for popular music singles...
, a film director that specializes in supervising the filming and editing of music videos - Sports directorSports DirectorA sports director is an individual at a television or radio station who is in charge of the sports department. In local news, the sports director is typically the station's primary sportscaster, and often anchors the primetime newscasts on weekdays. They are in charge of sports programming and...
, an individual at a television or radio station who is in charge of the sports department - Technical directorTechnical directorThe Technical Director or Technical Manager is usually a senior technical person within a software company, film studio, theatrical company or television studio...
, the most senior technical person within a theatrical company or television studio - Television directorTelevision directorA television director directs the activities involved in making a television program and is part of a television crew.-Duties:The duties of a television director vary depending on whether the production is live or recorded to video tape or video server .In both types of productions, the...
, a person who directs the activities involved in making a television episode - Theatre director
- Opera director
- Creative directorCreative DirectorA creative director is a position often found within the graphic design, film, music, fashion, advertising, media or entertainment industries, but may be useful in other creative organizations such as web development and software development firms as well....
, a person usually responsible for creative development of Interactive Entertainment, and is generally regarded as the prime design authority across the company's product range.
Business
- A member of a board of directorsBoard of directorsA board of directors is a body of elected or appointed members who jointly oversee the activities of a company or organization. Other names include board of governors, board of managers, board of regents, board of trustees, and board of visitors...
, a group of managers of a company - Director-generalDirector-generalThe term director-general is a title given the highest executive officer within a governmental, statutory, NGO, third sector or not-for-profit institution.-European Union:...
- Executive directorExecutive directorExecutive director is a term sometimes applied to the chief executive officer or managing director of an organization, company, or corporation. It is widely used in North American non-profit organizations, though in recent decades many U.S. nonprofits have adopted the title "President/CEO"...
- Finance director, or chief financial officer
- Funeral directorFuneral directorA funeral director , also known as a mortician or undertaker, is a professional involved in the business of funeral rites. These tasks often entail the embalming and burial or cremation of the dead, as well as the planning and arrangement of the actual funeral ceremony...
, someone involved in the business of funeral rites - Managing director
- Non-executive directorNon-executive directorA non-executive director or outside director is a member of the board of directors of a company who does not form part of the executive management team. He or she is not an employee of the company or affiliated with it in any other way...
- Director (business)Director (business)Director refers to a rank in management. A director is a person who leads, or supervises a certain area of a company, a program, or a project. Usually companies, which use this title commonly have large numbers of people with the title of director with different categories...
may also be the title of a mid-level management position
Works
- Director (album)Director (album)Director is the fourth studio album by R&B singer Avant. The album reached number one on the Billboard magazine's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, and peaked at number four on the Billboard 200...
, an album by Avant - The Director (film), an Australian film
- The DirectorThe DirectorThe Director is a novel by United States author Henry Denker, published in 1971.The novel is about an ambitious young film director, named Jock Finley, who uses two prominent film stars Carr and Daisy Donnel to rebuild his already damaged career...
, a novel by Henry Denker
Other
- Director (colonial)Director (colonial)The title director has been used in colonial administrations not only as a bureaucratic rank and for the members of a board of directors, but also specifically, as in this article, for the head of the colonial administration of a territory The title director has been used in colonial...
, head of chartered company's colonial administration in a territory - Director (education), head of a university or other educational body
- Director (military)Director (military)A director, also called an auxiliary predictor, is a mechanical or electronic computer that continuously calculates trigonometric firing solutions for use against a moving target, and transmits targeting data to direct the weapon firing crew....
, a device that continuously calculates firing data - Tournament directorTournament directorTournament directors typically perform a number of key functions at competitive sporting and gaming events of all kinds. The extent of the tournament director's duties varies depending on the size of the tournament, the nature of the competition, and the number of other officials to whom roles can...
, for sporting events - Adobe DirectorAdobe DirectorAdobe Director is a multimedia application authoring platform created by Macromedia—now part of Adobe Systems. It allows users to build applications built on a movie metaphor, with the user as the "director" of the movie...
, multimedia authoring software - Director stringDirector stringIn mathematics, in the area of lambda calculus and computation, directors or director strings are a mechanism for keeping track of the free variables in a term...
, a way of tracking free variables in computation. - Director, the spatial and temporal average of the orientation of the long molecular axis within a small volume element of liquid crystal
- The Director, a complex artificial intelligence system used in Left 4 DeadLeft 4 DeadLeft 4 Dead is a cooperative first-person shooter video game. It was developed by Turtle Rock Studios, which was purchased by Valve Corporation during development. The game uses Valve's proprietary Source engine, and is available for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and Mac OS X...
- HMS Director (1784)HMS Director (1784)HMS Director was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 9 March 1784 at Gravesend. She was laid down speculatively in the November of 1779, and ordered by the Navy the following year....
- Director telephone systemDirector telephone systemThe Director System was a system which made it possible to call subscribers at other telephone exchanges without operator intervention in large multi-exchange cities, and to have a mixture of automatic and manual exchanges within these cities...
, or "Director exchange" - Osama bin LadenOsama bin LadenOsama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of the militant Islamist organization Al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets...
, one of whose nicknames is "The Director" - Aaron DirectorAaron DirectorAaron Director , a celebrated professor at the University of Chicago Law School, played a central role in the development of the Chicago school of economics...
, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School - Fibre Channel director, a large switch for computer storage networks