Write a graphic novel, learn origami, get in shape, learn Italian...find something that excites & inspires you. What steps can you take today to start this project?

Career

Work on a passion project!

It's important to take chances and put yourself in situations where it's uncertain if you will fail or succeed. Write down 3 small ways you can do something out of your comfort zone, then try them!

Day to Day

Find 3 ways to get out of your comfort zone!

Watch the Yo Gabba Gabba! gang try to shoot a scene where one of the show's characters goes surfing. They run into all kinds of problems--do you think you would have fun doing something like this?

Go behind the scenes of filming a tv show!

Film, TV, Stage, and Radio Directors

Interpret script, conduct rehearsals, and direct activities of cast and technical crew for stage, motion pictures, television, or radio programs.

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

First Interest High-Point

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

Second Interest High-Point

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Third Interest High-Point

Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed

Directors- Stage, Motion Pictures, Television, and Radio

Actors, Producers, and Directors

Producers and Directors

Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Entertainers and Performers, Sports and Related Workers

Direct live broadcasts, films and recordings, or non-broadcast programming for public entertainment or education.

Supervise and coordinate the work of camera, lighting, design, and sound crew members.

Study and research scripts to determine how they should be directed.

Cut and edit film or tape to integrate component parts into desired sequences.

Collaborate with film and sound editors during the post-production process as films are edited and soundtracks are added.

Confer with technical directors, managers, crew members, and writers to discuss details of production, such as photography, script, music, sets, and costumes.

Plan details such as framing, composition, camera movement, sound, and actor movement for each shot or scene.

Communicate to actors the approach, characterization, and movement needed for each scene in such a way that rehearsals and takes are minimized.

Establish pace of programs and sequences of scenes according to time requirements and cast and set accessibility.

Choose settings and locations for films and determine how scenes will be shot in these settings.

Identify and approve equipment and elements required for productions, such as scenery, lights, props, costumes, choreography, and music.

Compile scripts, program notes, and other material related to productions.

Perform producers' duties, such as securing financial backing, establishing and administering budgets, and recruiting cast and crew.

Select plays or scripts for production and determine how material should be interpreted and performed.

Compile cue words and phrases and cue announcers, cast members, and technicians during performances.

Consult with writers, producers, or actors about script changes or "workshop" scripts, through rehearsal with writers and actors to create final drafts.

Review film daily to check on work in progress and to plan for future filming.

Collaborate with producers to hire crew members, such as art directors, cinematographers, and costumer designers.

Interpret stage-set diagrams to determine stage layouts and supervise placement of equipment and scenery.

Hold auditions for parts or negotiate contracts with actors determined suitable for specific roles, working in conjunction with producers.

Create and approve storyboards in conjunction with art directors.

Confer with stage managers to arrange schedules for rehearsals, costume fittings, and sound or light development.

Promote and market productions by giving interviews, participating in talk shows, and making other public appearances.

Introduce plays and meet with audiences after shows to explain how the play was interpreted.

Create graphics for television broadcasts.

Digital video cameras

Grass Valley Ignite Automated Production System

Lens finders

Multi-line telephone systems

Multimedia editing equipment

Notebook computers

Personal computers

Robotic cameras

Sound mixing equipment

Studio lighting systems

Tablet computers

Teleprompters

Vectorscopes

Video editing equipment

Video switchers

Waveform monitors

Adobe Systems Adobe After Effects

Adobe Systems Adobe Audition

Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop

Apple Final Cut Pro

Avid Technology iNEWS

Avid Technology Media Composer

Avid Technology NewsCutter

Avid Technology Pro Tools

Broadcast Electronics AudioVAULT FleX

Chyron CAMIO

Content management systems CMS

Extensible markup language XML

Facebook

Graphics creation software

Hypertext markup language HTML

MAGIX Software Sound Forge

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Word

Ross Video Xpression

Scripting software

Sony Vegas Pro

Twitter

YouTube

Co-Creator, Director & Writer/Lead Singer

<p>Meet Team "Tabula Rasa" and follow their first attempts at cold calling, from local restaurants to the White House, hoping to speak with Michelle Obama. They meet each other and their RV for the first time in Southern California, before heading to interview Christian Jacobs, lead singer of The Aquabats, and co-creator, writer, and director of the hugely popular Yo Gabba Gabba pre-school television show.</p>


Christian Jacobs

Co-Creator, Director & Writer/Lead Singer

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Christian Jacobs

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