Level 1: Background Extra
As a Background Extra, itâs important never to be heard or seen, unless the scene calls for clapping or the incoherent cheers of the mob. A healthy dose of anonymity will do you some good, since an introduction to stardom is just a few takes away!
Level 2: Best Boy/Girl
The Best Boy/Best Girl is often not the best and, as required by law, typically not a boy/girl. As a lackey to the Director, stars, itâs your job to get it done regardless of the cost to personal dignity.
Level 3: Key Grip
Much like the movement of the camera, your career is seemingly on rails towards stardom and glory. However, for now your job is getting everything precisely in focus for the Director. Continue charming your fellow crew members and your career will come into focus!
Level 4: Personal Assistant
Being the right hand of someone important is as good as actually being important! Youâll need to mix and mingle with celebrities while taking care of tasks for you employer.
Level 5: Production Manager
The set, crew, equipment and assets are all under your purview as Production Manager, which means youâre on the line when poorly supervised explosive stunts go boom! If you keep schmoozing with Celebrities after hours and help produce films on time and on budget, stardom will be yours.
Acting Branch
Level 6: TV Actor
The grind of a weekly, globally syndicated TV show is good for an aspiring actor. Itâs all about pacing, humility, and an almost excessive outpouring of charisma. Hit your marks and nobody will touch that dial.
Level 7: Featured Actor
The network is excited to see you as a Featured Actor in each and every one of their crime, court room, and hospital dramas, as well as a brief cameo in their feel-good family friendly comedy. Youâre such a charmer!
Level 8: Supporting Actor
The confines of household televisions are not sufficient for your budding stardom. The studio has pushed you to the big screen in theaters nationwide, albeit in a Supporting Actor role. Keep flashing those pearly whites at hotspots around town and soon youâll be so popular that your acting abilities wonât even be taken into account!
Level 9: Lead Actor
When the credits roll, itâll be your name that appears on screen first, regardless of alphabetical order. The film is about you, your talents, your face, and your Celebrity status. Pick your roles carefully and continue building your contact list around the set.
Level 10: Superstar Actor
Each and every movie you grace with your presence breaks sales records. Whether itâs 3D, 2D, silent, or animated, your acting ability and Celebrity status are unsurpassed. Filmgoers and your peers whisper not about whether youâre the greatest actor alive, but if youâre the best ever.
Directing Branch
Film Branch 2
Level 6: Storyboardist
Before the set is crafted and actors begin practicing lines, the scene must be storyboarded. This is a good time to hone your writing abilities and improve your Celebrity status, because your best idea is only as good as who you know.
Level 7: 2nd Unit Director
Although the 2nd Unit Director doesnât shoot too many scenes involving actors, you do get to travel to remote and gorgeous locations and ride along in helicopter flyovers to capture those awe-inspiring credits sequences. You may not be directing what you want, but hey, you are directing !
Level 8: Script Writer
Nothing goes to the director before meeting the express approval of the Script Writer. Every dramatic pause, monologue, and awkward âface the cameraâ scene is carefully penned by your expert hand. Youâre not just a writer anymore â youâre a Celebrity writer !
Level 9: Assistant Director
Filmgoers raise eyebrows and the blogosphere is bustling with commentary on your specific contributions to your films. The entire movie doesnât fall under your guiding hand quite yet, but Sims know your mark of quality and innovation when they see it. Itâs just a matter of time Mr/Ms. Assistant Director !
Level 10: Distinguished Director
The recipient of the yearly Best Director award is a foregone conclusion â you. If one of your films comes out in a season, other directors and studios panic like mice and delay showing their work as it is merely pedestrian in comparison to your masterpieces. It has been a long road, but one filled with glorious visuals and shockingly touching drama. You have arrived !
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