Special Effects

[Sudds3]

So I love all of that special effects stuff, horror movies, regular movies, theater, stages, anything! Making masks and costumes, building sets for plays and all of that! I am on my schools stage crew and we are building this EPIC set for Little Shop of Horrors! It's too cool. And I was thinking could this be a good career, maybe making masks and costumes and special effects for horror movies or haunted houses or building haunted house or sets for horror movies or making the sets for regular movies and plays!

Also would architectural engineering fit into that at all? Because I really want to do that when I get older! Thanks for the input

[West Coast Sheriff]

Unfortunately I don't really think so. I would say its one of those vocations you'll lose money on or one that you'll make millions if you hit it it big in LA but mostly I don't think it makes a good vocation sorry to tell u this

[TheMatrix]

I enjoy being the lighting designer in this year's play at my school(we're doing "You can't take it with you"), although our district gives us no money, so I'm stuck with this ancient light board from 1996. And whoever installed the light racks and wired them is an idiot. The sound crew doesn't exactly have it easy, either :P
It's fun, although I'm not sure that lighting designers are in high demand, so it's probably not something I'll study.

Architectural engineering is something you could pursue, just make sure it's more a general course instead of a theatre-specific one, that way you can always find work in another form of architecture as well.

[HunterSteele]

Also would architectural engineering fit into that at all?
Not really. Architectural engineering is about building houses, real houses. The term "haunted house" might have the word house in it, but it's not the same thing.