The bombastic Austrian-born film director and producer Otto Premin.docx
Production roles
1. Example of a film director
Danny Boyle:
Danny Boyle was born on the 20th October 1956. He is an
English film director and producer, best known for his work
on films such as Slumdog Millionaire, Shallow Grave, 28
Days Later and Trainspotting. Boyle won numerous awards
for his 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire, including the Academy
Award for Best director. Boyle was presented with the
Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking award at the 2008
Austin film festival, where he also introduced that years AFF
Audience Award winner Slumdog Millionaire. In 2012, Boyle
was the Artistic director for Isles of Wonder, the opening
ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic games.
2. Example of an editor
Jean Oser: Jean Oser was a
German editor. He was born in
1908 and died in Strasbourg in
2002. Son of a circus director, he
grew up in Berlin. He worked as an
editor therefore has productions by
young directors who are now in the
legend of cinema, including GW
Pabst. He continued his career as
an editor for both the cinema and
for the television, and directed
documentaries.
3. Example of a sound designer
Walter Murch:
Walter Murch was born on the 12th July 1943 and is an
American film sound designer. Murch started editing and
mixing sound with Francis Ford’s The Rain people (1969).
Subsequently, he worked on George Lucas’s THX 1138 and
American Graffiti and Coppola’s The Godfather before
editing picture and mixing sound on Coppola’s The
Conversation, for which he received an Academy Award
nomination in sound in 1974. Murch’s most famous for his
sound designing work on Apocalypse Now, for which he
won his first Academy award in 1974.
4. Example of a film producer
Jerry Bruckheimer: Jerry Bruckheimer is an
American film and television producer. He has
achieved great success in the genres of action,
drama, and science fiction. His best known
television series are CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Without a
Trace, Cold Case, and The Amazing Race. Some
of his best known films include Beverly Hills Cop,
Flashdance, Top Gun, The Rock, Con Air,
Armageddon, Bad Boys, Enemy of the State,
Black Hawk Down, Pearl Harbour, Pirates of the
Caribbean, and the National Treasure franchise.
He is also one of the Board of Directors at
ZeniMax Media. Many of his films were produced
by Paramount and Disney, while many of his
television series were co-produced by Warner
Bros. and CBS Television Studios.
5. Example of a production designer
William Cameron Menzies:
William Cameron Menzies was born on
July 29, 1896, and died on March 5,
1957 was an Academy Award-winning
American film production designer (a
job title he invented) and art director
who also worked as a director,
producer, and screenwriter during a
career spanning five decades. He
earned acclaim for his work in silent
movies, and later pioneered the use of
colour in film for dramatic effect.