Assignment 2:
Search for videos (youtube etc.), audio (podcasts etc.) and websites. These are going to provide you with useful phrases in the fields we listed in class.
Start with the following keywords brainstormed in class, document your search and extend it at will..
First Question : How To Become a film director ?
Articles about the subject :
http://www.ehow.com/how_138361_become-movie-director.html
More Information on education-portal.com
Some Informations :
- Think small at First. Directing music videos, education films or commercials is a good way to get experience
-Raise money to make an independant film
-Become a stage director
-Take any opportunity to work on a film and gain experience
-Build your network and your reputation
-Some degrees may provide the technical and artistic background needed to begin working in this field.
I found an interesting website with several vidéos on the subject, especially on Special FX jobs
1st Video : Special Effects Professions [ Link ]
Important Informations and Keywords :
- A career in special and visual effects can lead to positions in the video game, movie, animation or Web industries.
- To work in this field, you must have the technical skills to use the computer programs. You need these skills to create and produce special effects.
- Have a degree or a certificate to complete your knowledge in fine arts, media or graphic design. Training in design, animation and computer graphics is essential.
- To be familiar with 3D animation techniques and computer graphic technologies
- Abilities : Creative, artistic, communicative (to be able to communicate ideas effectively) and to have an eye for detail.
- What kind of career opportunities can you find ?
In television or movies industries, maybe a part-time hours job. You can work in advertising companies, web agency and video game firms.
2nd Video : Movie Directing and Cinematography Professions [ Link ]
Important Informations and Keywords :
- Need to be familiar with camera terminology and photography equipment.
- To understand shutter angle and other aspects of photography.
- Abilities : Communicative, a sense of coordination, creative
- In this field, the competition is very hard and all cinematographers must have experience and a formal training.
- Many directors begin their careers as an actor, a cameraman-operator or a broadcast journalist.
- These kinds of jobs require a lot of travels and imply stress and unemployement periods. In addition, a film director may work during the night. He might be relocated, depending on the projects which he is working on.
3 comments:
Hi Vincent !
I found some mistakes in this post.
"I've found an interting website with several vidéos on the subject, especially on Special FX jobs"
I think you should write "I found" and I'm sure you have to write "interesting" ^^
"To work in this field, you must have the technical skills to utilize the computer programs. You need this skills to create and produce special effects."
"skills" is a plural then you have to write "these skills"
Have a good week end !
Thank You Trang. I'll correct my mistakes.
Hi Vincent !
I've found some other mistakes, but some are just other ways to say some things which sound better to me :
-Take any opportunity to work on a film and accumulate experience
=> According to wordreference it seems that it refers rather to electricity, so you can say "acquire experience" or "gain experience" which are more appropriate to me.
- To work in this field, you must have the technical skills to utilize the computer programs.
=> You can say "use" programs
- Have a degree or certificate to complete
=> I think that you have to repeat "a" : have "a" degree or "a" certificate to complete ...
- Many directors begin their careers as actor, cameraman-operator or broadcast journalist.
=> Same thing here : ... begin their careers as "an" actor, "a" cameraman-operator or "a" broadcast journalist.
- These kinds of jobs require a lot a travel and...
=> You must mean : a lot "of" travels...
- He may be to relocate in depending on the projects which he is working on.
=> I don't understand this sentence well, you mean that "he must/might have to relocate depending on the projects ... " ? If it is this meaning I think that you can't put two infinitives "may be" and "to relocate" together but use "might or must" to express the conditionnal. Plus, "in depending on" : I think that "in" is not necessary here.
Well that's all, very nice blog by the way =).
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