CAREER OPTIONSAlana Walker

• Develops personal ideas for comic strips and comic characters, reads written material to develop ideas.

• Discusses ideas for comic strips with editor or publisher's representative.

• Creates and prepares sketches of characters, providing details from memory or reference material.

• Sketches and submits cartoon for approval.

• Makes changes and corrections to comic strip as necessary.

• Develops color patterns and moods and paints background layouts to dramatize action for cartoon scenes.

• Labels each section with designated colors when colors are used

CARTOONIST

• Not much besides being able to write or draw

• Most are self employed • If you are trying to become

syndicated or work for a company you just need a good portfolio

REQUIREMENTSFOR A CARTOONISTS

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FUTURE OF CARTOONIST

• The majority gets none• Most are self employed

BENEFITS TO CARTOONISTS

FUTURE OF CARTOONISTSPROJECTIONS

• the art of making motion pictures.

• Can have different jobs• Director of photography• Editing film • Photographer

CINEMATOGRAPHER

• An apprenticeship is usually needed since you need hands on experience

• Film school can give you this experience

• Knowledge of the different types of cameras

• Know how to use filters, and editing software properly

• How to deal with set changes• Interpreting what a director

wants• Changing the different type of

cameras

REQUIREMENTS FOR A CINEMATOGRAPHER

• New technology always coming out

• Only danger to field of work is change in entertainment, and smart phones

• Need an apprenticeship

FUTURE OF CINEMATOGRAPHERS

• Day rate can vary between $300-$3000

• Only big industries offer benefitsprofit sharing, pension plans, sick leave, and life and health insurance• Most work on contract basis

BENEFITS FOR CINEMATOGRAPHERS

FUTURE OF CINEMATOGRAPHERS PROJECTION

• Free lance writer• Script writer• Novelist• Etc.

WRITER

• No formal training• Just need to know the proper

writing formant • Understand how to keep people

entertained

REQUIREMENTS FOR SCREEN WRITING

• $2000-$5000 a week• median annual salary of a

scriptwriter is $44,350• writers negotiate for a

percentage of the movie profits

SCREEN WRITING BENEFITS

• It looks promising• As long as there aren’t writing

robots, or we somehow change our entertainment overnight script writers will be needed

FUTURE OF SCRIPT WRITERS

• If you are passionate about a story you have to deal with people changing your script

• People taking your work• Not being able to choose who

portrays your story

RISKS OF BEING A SCREEN WRITER

FUTURE OF SCREEN WRITERS PROJECTION