Entertainment – Cinema, TV – industries

By Isadora Torrano, Aline Bernardes, Aléxia Scotá and Victória Nunes (3A)

The entertainment and media industries had grown a lot in the past few decades with the advancement of technology, this opened doors to new career options.

Besides now being the internet era, movies and television had become part of our daily live as well. It’s normal to see the advertising of a new movie – or TV series - that will premiere in a few days and everyone talking about it, all of this due to our necessity of entertainment. We like watching all this, the finished project, but since we are talking about careers it would be interesting to see how all the production works.

As said before you can have plenty of career options, as well as college majors – like visual arts, dramatical arts, design or even literature - because you don’t have to work exclusively with filmmaking to become one.

The production of a movie depends on hundredths of hard-working people, you can see some of them listed below:

·         Director: It’s the person who leads the whole production making sure the footage, the acting, the scenery, the production and everything actually is working right.

·         Producer: They are often the second in command at the movie production, they – along with the director – make sure everything is in order and also are responsible for extra things as leading the cast and the scripts management. 

·         The cast: Actors and actresses that work to bring to life the characters.

·         Writers crew: The group that is responsible for the writing and management of the scripts. It’s a hard work with dozens of ours researching to create one.

·         Casting director: It’s the lead person in the process that is watching auditions and casting the actors.

·         Cameras: Cameraman’s as they are called are the people responsible for the camera’s shoot recordings during filming. They have to be sure of the position, movement and the lighting, among other things.

·         Concept Artists: They create the whole “concept art” of the movies based on scripts and descriptions.

·         Costumers/ figurine: Are the people responsible for designing and creating the clothing the characters are going to wear.

·         Make-up artists/ Creature designers: There are lots of specialization you can have in the make-up area: the beauty make-up (the normal one) and the creatures make-up (creation of monsters and others) are the most known. 

·         Photography crew: Are responsible for the photo shoots after and during the movie production. Often involved with the filming too.

·         Scenery artists: Are the designers and artists who create the scenery where the film will shoot.

·         Editors: Are the post-production crew responsible for cutting scenes, adding the soundtrack, special effects and a lot of other technical work.

·         Special effects crew: the people who design and create special effects software and add them to the final project.

·         Composer: Responsible for the composing of the movie soundtrack.

·         Animators: If the movie is an animation, the animators are responsible creating the whole film motion. The three more common kinds of animation are the traditional one, stop-motion and CGI.

Star Trek (2009) - Behind-the-scenes footage

When we talk about work and careers the salary conditions always came to mind. Here are a list of some jobs and it’s average salary (for mid-to-low level professionals):

 

·         General director: $75,000

·         Producers: $80,000

·         Editors: $40 – 50,000

·         Figurine designers: $40,000

·         Photographer: $60 – 70,000

·         Make-up artists: $60 – 80,000

Since here in Brazil the movies industry still growing it is a bit challenging to find college options that can be compared to international ones, but here is a list of nice Brazilian colleges with filmmaking major.

 

·         Puc-Rio

            ·         Centro Universitário (UNA)

·         Universidade Estácio de Sá (UNESA)

·         Universidade Potiguar (UNP)

·         Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)

·         Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)

And if you plan to go to college in another country here are some renowned international colleges:

 

·         American Film Institute (USA)

·         The National Film and Television School (UK)

·         University of Southern California (USA)

·         La Femis (France)

·         Beijing Film Academy (China)

·         California institute of arts (USA)

 

 

And now let’s talk about two awesome persons who got really successful in their careers:

Steven Spielberg:

            Steven Allan Spielberg was born in December 18, 1946 in Ohio.

            As a kid he and his three sisters would make short movies with a Super-8 camera and at 13 he won his first short film contest. Spielberg was not a hard-working student at school and failed the exam to go to a Californian college, but did major in English literature at a public college. After that he joined the California State University where he directed five movies. In 1975 his career boosted with the box office Jaws being a world phenomenon. After that most of his productions turned into great and successful productions.

            Spielberg is now married with Kate Capshaw (since 1991) and has 6 children. He won an average of 16 prizes – including 4 Academy Awards.

            His notable works are:

·         Jaws (1975)

·         Indiana Jones (1981, 84, 89 and 2008)

·         E.T. (1982)

·         Back to the future 1 and 2 (as a producer)

·         Jurassic park (1993, 97 – and the 2001 and Jurassic World as a producer)

·         Schindler’s list (1993)

·         War Horse (2011)

And now:

Meryl Streep

            Mary Louise Streep was born in june 22, 1949 in New Jersey.

            She graduated in dramatic theater in 1971 at Vassar college, after that she got her master’s degree in dramatical arts at Yale and later she received the Honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Dartmouth college in 1982. Meryl demonstrated early the ability to mimic and memorize accents and her lines, the teachers called her a prodigy. In the 70’s she participated of innumerous theater plays including on Broadway. Her career boost happened in 1978 with Deer Hunter and after that in 1979 with Krammer X Krammer.

            She has participated in more than 50 movies winning more than 15 prizes – 3 Academy Awards and 19 nominations. She is married with Don Gummer (since 1978) and has 4 children.

            Meryl’s notable works are:

·         Deer Hunter (1978)

·         Krammer X Krammer (1979)

·         The Devil’s wear prada (2006)

·         Mamma mia! (2008)

·         The iron Lady (2011)

·         Into the woods (2014)

And now, at last but not the least, here we have a variety of videos about what we talked.

The first one is a trailer of the animation movie Howl’s Moving Castle from the Studios Ghibli and directed by the master of animation Hayao Miyazaki.

Then we have the behind-the-scenes promotional video of Jurassic World, the newest movie of Spielberg’s Jurassic Park franchise.

And last the trailer of the 6^th season of the TV show Face Off which is a reality show competition of creatures make-up designers.

*All the researches were made on Wikipedia and Youtube (except for the salary ones).