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- From: jittlov@gumby.cs.caltech.edu (Mike Jittlov)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov,rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
- Subject: What I did on WIZARD
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 13:26:35 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
- Lines: 102
- Message-ID: <1eldebINNrb4@gap.caltech.edu>
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- Summary: 130 jobs on the wall, 130..
- Keywords: Wizard, jobs, movie, Jittlov
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- Dana xxxxx asks:
- >So, what did Mike Jittlov actually DO in this WoSaT movie?
- >Other than "act", and take credit for everybody else's jobs
-
- Well...just listing the industrially-recognized occupations
- currently clogging modern movie credits (and eliminating most
- assistant duties and many fields that I consider duplicative):
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- "THE WIZARD OF SPEED AND TIME"
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- List of Jobs Worked by Mike Jittlov to Create the Feature
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- Producer SPFX Director Actor, Star
- Exec Prod (technically) SPFX Art Director Actor, Pixilation
- Director SPFX Key Scuptor Actor, Extra(s)
- Story Concept Creator SPFX Modelmaker Actor, Stuntman
- Treatment Writer SPFX Creator Actor, Dog Double
- Story Researcher SPFX Cameraman Actor, Voice Overs
- Screenplay Writer Location SPFX Actor, Singer
- Rewriter Pyrotechnician Backup Singer
- Script Editor Armature Designer Whistler
- Script Supervisor Production Designer Dancer
- Script Typist Art Director Choreographer
- Continuity Set Decorator Puppeteer
- Director Photography Set Builder Makeup Artist
- Location Photographer Set Rebuilder Hairstylist
- Still Photographer Conceptual Artist Costume Designer
- Camera Operator Storyboard Artist Costume Supervisor
- Camera Loader Lettering Artist Wardrobe Manager
- Focus Puller Graphics Artist Casting Director
- Camera Repairman Poster Artist Location Casting
- Matte Photographer Title Design Stunt Coordinator
- Stop Motion Animator Art Secretary Stunt Driver
- Pixilation Animator Production Manager Truck Driver
- Kinestasis Animator Production Assistant Transport Captain
- Rotoscope Animator Production Publicist Craft Services
- Cartoon Animator Production Buyer Product Placement
- Clay Animator Production Loans Office Manager
- Graphics Animator Production Secretary Shop Manager
- Time Lapse Animator Accountant (pre-RK) Machinist
- Animation Designer Sound Recorder Property Master
- Animation Researcher Sound Mixer Prop Designer
- Animation Inker Sound Assistant Prop Maker
- Animation Painter Sound Effects Man Elec. Designer
- Animation Inbetweener Sound Repairman Carpenter
- Animation Checker Foley Artist Painter
- Animation Editor Music Composer Plasterer
- Animation Cameraman Musician Laborer
- Superspeed Cameraman Supervising Editor Janitor
- Bike-O-Cam Operator Music Editor Greensman
- Video Cameraman Dialogue Editor Const. Foreman
- Negative Cutter Sound FX Editor Gaffer
- Negative Splicer Special FX Editor Best Boy
- Negative Vaulter ADR Editor Electrician
- Toy Wrangler Video Editor Key Grip
- Suitcase Wrangler Trailer Editor Dolly Grip
- Location Scout Editing Repairman Key Schlepp
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- Some of these occupations were of course also worked by others,
- during our principal production. Jittlov did not do everything.
- (Until later.)
-
- All ego aside (sure...), no one has ever done more to create a
- feature film - not in the entire history of motion pictures. Not
- even George Melies, Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, or Jerry Lewis.
- And Steven Spielberg can't draw storyboards. So there. :p
-
- I hope to someday re-list the above, with a brief explanation of
- what these occupations mean. For instance:
-
- Producer: a misnomer, he/she seldom ever "produces" anything
- (ie - pulls a miracle out of a hat); lately, more of an
- "arranger", and sometimes a coordinator. (I declined
- the credit at the film's front credits, since I thought
- it was not a little egotistic - I'm all the way through
- the movie, as myself. But studio executives apparently
- do take this area quite seriously, and usually read it
- in their screening rooms just before they fall asleep
- or start taking phonecalls.)
-
- Dog Double: we needed a policedog, on a non-dog-day. It was a
- longshot, of the two thugs wildly driving their police
- car while being attacked by a surprise dog in the back
- seat. We needed the shot. After instructing cameraman
- Russ and the actors, I got in the back seat with my old
- corduroy coat, and put my arms up its sleeves, in the
- shape of a policedog. Action! BarkSnarlCareenWoofWoof
- etcetera. It worked, we saved $500, and I got another
- weird credit.
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