Moviemaking behind the scenes
Who makes movie? Actors and directors,of course. But if you watch the credits at the end of a movie, you'll find hundreds of other names. some of the most important people in filmmaking aren't famous. Here are four important jobs behind the scenes.
Makeup artist: Making characters look believable
the makeup artist's work sounds simple. But it's more than just making the lead actress look beautiful . If the hero gets a cut on his face, the makeup artists creates that cut, and it has to look exactly the same tomorrow. And the special makeup for a monster or a space alien can take six hours! Sometimes makeup artists have only fifteen minutes to prepare twenty actors for a crowd scene. Their work must always be careful and good, so you don't notice it when you watch the movie.
Script supervisor: Putting movie scenes together.
Imagine shooting a scene inside a living room. The clock say 9:05, and the actor is eating a sandwich. Later,the director decides to change just the end of 9:05. it's very embarrassing. Sometimes an object disappears and reappears, or clocks go backward! To avoid these prolems the script supervisor keeps precise records if every scene and all its details.
Special effects coordinator : Making impossible things look real
After a movie, People often ask,"How did they do that?" In films, People can fly, dinosaurs walk through cities, and spaceships travel to other planets. These are all the work of the special effects coordinator.
Some special effects, especially in science fiction movie, are made with computers. Others are produced by machines, which can make a rainy day or a snowy night at any time of the year. Fires and explosions in movies are all created with special effects.
Foley artist : Creating the sounds of the cinema
Think of your favorite scaty movie and its sounds footstep,loud rain , and creaking doors. All of these are the work of the Foley artists. Many sounds can't be recorded during the filming of movie, so Foley artists produce them in their studios. They create the solounds of a fight scene, and the wind,rain, and thunder recording different kinds of footsteps.
Next time you see a movie, look for these names in the credits.