Entertainment and Professional Opportunities

The students of history can avail of many opportunities in the fields of drama and movies.

Drama: In order to achieve accuracy of stage backdrops on the stage deep knowledge of history of arts and architecture of the concerned period is essential. Experts in this fields can work as art directors or consultants. The script writers as well as dialogues writers need assistance of experts languages and the history of languages, as well as experts in cultural history of a given period.

Cinema: The art directors of movies create the backdrop designs of atmosphere, costumes and jewellery, make-up ,hair styles, etc. suitable to the times of the theme of the movie. Scholars of History can work in this field as art history can work in this field as art directors or as consultant to the art director. To write movie dialogues, knowledge of the culture and language as spoken in the concerned period is necessary. Experts in these fields can find many professional opportunities.