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Skills and Careers

Skills of a Film Studies Majors:

  • Synthesis of information
  • Writing
  • Foreign Language skills
  • Ability to explain processes and concepts
  • Thinking critically, and an ability to compare and contrast
  • Evaluate ideas, sources and presentations
  • Planning and presenting specific viewpoints and interpretations
  • Influential and persuasion skills
  • An awareness of cultural values and messages
  • An awareness of institutional values
  • Ability to measure media effects and have an attention to details
  • Planning and management skills
  • Reporting and editing skills
  • Gathering data and research skills
  • Developing market research
  • Work with deadlines
  • A know-how to work independently as well as in small groups
 

Film studies related career possibilities are included below:

  • cinematographer, producer, or assistant director
  • critic, professor, actor/actress, arts journalist
  • independent or industrial filmmaker
  • press agent, film editor, or photographer
  • drama coach or drama therapist
  • studio merchandising or distribution company work
  • dramaturge or story editor
  • film archives, museum studies, program researcher
  • tourist industry or community arts worker
  • casting director or casting assistant
  • theater manager or publicist
  • television production, camera operator, censor, or colorizing technician
  • screenwriter, animator, script writer or script supervisor
  • sound editor, visual effects, or prop maker
  • costume design
  • library assistant or assistant language teacher
  • lighting technician or sound and special effects specialist
  • program assistant or a personal assistant to the Director
  • film production instructor or rerecording mixer
  • film director or film editor
  • talent agent or talent representative
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Film Studies
Film Studies Program
Office of Interdisciplinary Programs
Arts and Sciences
4108 Smith Labs, 174 W. 18th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
Tel: (614) 292-6044 Fax: (614) 688-5675