1. By: Klaudia Scipior Lacy Turk
Careers in Film
By: Klaudia Scipior
Lacy Turk

2. Director
The Director is responsible for the look, sound and emotional impact of the film, They assemble the cast and crew of hundreds to help. They direct the action of the actors, consult with the wardrobe, effects, lights, grip, art, sound and locations department heads with the help of the director of photography places the camera in various positions to shoot scenes that will eventually be edited into a complete motion picture.

3. Tim Burton
Tim Burton is notorious for his “Nightmare before Christmas” film, He has been nominated for an Oscar, and has had 8 award winnings as well as 23 nominations.
On Entertainment Weekly he was voted #49 Greatest Director being the youngest person on the list.

4. Assistant Director
An assistant Director makes sure everything runs smoothly and on time as well as liaison between the director and the rest of the crew

5. Katterli FrauenFelder
Has been an assistant director to over 20 films such movies as
Planet of the Apes
Charlie and the Chocolate factory
Also has worked with Steven Spielberg
Tom Hanks
Robert De Niero

6. Sound Mixer
The sound mixer is the person who puts the sound (dialogue, effects and room tone) or music into the movie.

7. Sound Mixer/ Danny Elfman
The mixers for Big Fish were DTS, Dolby Digital, and SDDS. Each company has did the sounds for at least 100 movies a piece.
Danny Elfman has worked along side Tim Burton in over 10 films
HE has also won an Academy Award for Best Score

8. Cast
The cast is the actors or actresses who act like the character in the movie or t.v. special.

9. Helena Bonham Carter
Helena was born May She started acting before she was 20. Her second film was “A Room With A View” (1985). She now has two children and is engaged to Tim Burton. She has been in many films like “Fight Club”, “Sweeny Todd”, “Big Fish”, “Corpse Bride” and many more. She has been nominated for Oscars, she’s had 18 wins and 20 nominations.

10. Movie Extra’s
A movie extra is a person who is casted in a movie or t.v show and doesn’t have a speaking role. They are also known as a background extra.

11. Brandon Carroll Jeremy 3
Brandon was born June 21, 1981 in Scottsdale Arizona. Then he moved to to Eufaula Alabama and started participating in school plays and church plays. He was a extra in “Big Fish”, “The Fighting Temptations”, “Sweet Home Alabama” and many others.

12. Screen Play Writer
The screen play writer is the person who wrote the movie over the book. Meaning this person writes the story line after the book has been written. Then creates the movie.

13. John August
John August was born August in Bolder Colorado. He earned a degree in journalism at the Drake University in Iowa, and on in film at the University from Southern Colorado. John is married and has a daughter. He has gotten credit for “Go”, “Big Fish”,”Charlie's Angels”1 and 2. His current projects are the “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, “Tarzan” and ”The Corpse Bride”.

14. Set Dresser
A set dresser is the people who decorate the scenes/sets with rugs, lamps, artwork, this person also supervises the other set decorator or art director.

15. Nancy Haigh
Nancy Haigh was the set dresser for Big Fish. Some other movie’s she was the set director for was Burn After Reading (2008), Charlie Wilson's War (2007), No Country for Old Men (2007), Dreamgirls (2006), Ask the Dust (2006), Jarhead (2005), aka Jarhead - Willkommen im Dreck (Germany), The Ladykillers (2004).

16. Producer
The Producer I the backbone of the film, they oversee all aspects of the production of the film. They decide the director, script, cast ect. They ultimately make the film.

17. Bruce Cohen He is the owner of Jinks-Cohen Productions
He has won an Academy Award in 1999 for Best Picture for “American Beauty”
He as also had 4 other award winnings and 2 nominations

18. Production Manager
The Production Manager makes sure everything runs on time, as well has makes everything run smoothly

19. Debra James Debra James was the Production Manager for “Big Fish”
She has worked on other features such as
“The Matrix Reloaded”
“The House Bunny”

20. Production Designer
Person who, in conjunction with the art director is responsible for the entire visual look of a film, and makes decisions about set decoration; props, make-up and wardrobe in the preproduction phase and supervise these elements during shooting

21. Dennis Grassner
Denis Grasser has won Best Art Direction Set Decoration for “Bugsy”
He was also nominated for 3 other Oscars and has worked as such classic movies as “O’ Brother Where Art Thou?”