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
NNTP-Posting-Host: gumby.cs.caltech.edu
Summary: 130 jobs on the wall, 130..
Keywords: Wizard, jobs, movie, Jittlov

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):


                 "THE WIZARD OF SPEED AND TIME"

    List of Jobs Worked by Mike Jittlov to Create the Feature

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


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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 Mike Jittlov - Wizard, etc         .   . +  * .o   o.* `.`. +.  
  Hollywood, CA 90026-2714         '   *  . ' ' |\^/|  `. * .  *
jittlov@gumby.cs.caltech.edu    (: May All Your  \V/  Good Dreams
  <& alt.fan.mike-jittlov>      and Fine Wishes  /_\  Come True:)
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