Career Cluster: Communication and Art

Interests: People, Things

Working Conditions: Inside, Inside/Outside

Minimum Educational Level: On-the-Job training, High School Diploma or GED

Physical Strength: Light

Physical Abilities Not Required: Climb/Balance, Kneel/Stoop/Crouch

Earnings (Yearly Average): $25,000 to $32,999

Producers handle the business portion of entertainment prouctions. They select plays and scripts, arrange financing, hire directors and key production personnel, and are responsible for keeping the project within budget and on-time.

Maintaining strict production time schedules

Making artistic interpretations of scripts

Making optimim use of taping and production equipment

Managing contractual obligations

Working with union representatives

Motion Picture Producers (187.167-174) initiate and manage all the business needs of a motion picture production.

Casting Directors (159.267-010) audition and interview performers for specific parts.

Television Directors (159.067-014) interpret scripts, conduct rehearsals and direct television programs.

Stage Directors (150/067-010) interpret scripts, direct technicians and conduct rehearsals to create stage presentations.

Motion Picture Directors (159.067.010) read and interpret scripts, conduct rehearsals and direct the activities of cast and technical crew for motion picutre films.

Directors and producers guide and control all aspects of a dramatic or entertainment production. Long, irregular hours are common, particularly during the weeks preceding a performance. Nighttime commitments for rehearsal and performances are typical. There is also a high level of stress associated with staying on schedule in the creation of flawless producitions, meeting financial commitments and solving personnel problems.

Computers

Costumes

Lights

Makeup

Microphones

Props

Public Address Systems

Scripts

Video and Audio Equipment

Business contact

Creative thinking

Working with imaginative people

Be extremely well-organized and punctual

Deal with people under adverse or confrontational situations

Interpret and communicate feelings and ideas

Work within precise limits or standards of accuracy

Hear well

See, either naturally or with correction

Speak clearly and understandably

Formal dramatic training or acting experience is generally necessary though some enter the field without it. The best way for prospective directors and producers to enter the fieldis by participating ing high school or community productions and volunteering to help in these specific areas.

Producers and directors are typically opportunity seekers. You must be enterprising in finding ways to gain experience by fitting into existing productions and creating your own new productions.

Due to the entrepreneurial nature of directing and producing, the earnings vary according to the success of the productions in progress.

Fringe benefits for directors are typically provided according to union guidelines, but vary according to the size and financial scope of a given production.

Producers, being entrepreneurs, are responsible for their own fringe benefits.

Audio-Visual

College Preparatory

English

General Business

General Math

Speech

Theatre & Drama

Drama/Theatre Arts, General

Film/Cinema Studies

Playwriting & Screenwriting

Radio & Television Broadcasting