Career Development

When you begin an exciting career in Bridgeport’s movie industry, you do not start out with the lead role in a blockbuster. No, your entry point is as a Background Extra.

It’s thankless work. But stick with it, showing up on time in a good mood and start getting to know the other people working on the set with the Meet Cast Members tone.

If you show moxie and a willingness to do small jobs outside the set (more on these in a moment), you begin earning valuable promotions.

By the time you reach the Personal Assistant promotion, a new metric is factored into potential success: Celebrity. After all, being known around town will certainly help a movie career.

And so you must start doing things that increase your Sim’s celebrity status, such as getting to know other celebs around Bridgeport or completing an opportunity that gives your Sim a celebrity point bump.

Fortunately, the Personal Assistant promotion comes with a cool perk that helps with this metric—you now gain more celebrity points for those special actions.

Once you reach the fifth promotion of this career, you must make a decision about the course of your professional life: Acting or Directing.

These branches both use the movie set as a place of work, but they lead to different benefits, opportunities, and rewards.

No matter which branch you choose, at levels 7, 9, and 10 of the career, your Sim is given a big award for achievements in the industry.

You get a note when you have won the award. To receive it, report to the movie theater in downtown Bridgeport. Place these awards on your lot for environmental boosts:

Level 7: Sims Choice Award

Level 9: Green Orb Award

Level 10: “Simmy” Award

Look at you, getting your award!

Directing Branch

So, you’ve decided on a life behind the camera. The director is responsible for all aspects of a film; the buck stops at the director’s chair.

However, just declaring that you are entering the Directing branch does not immediately mean you are the big boss.

You must work your way up to the top of this rewarding career branch through even more hard work, both on the set and around town as you strive to improve your celebrity status.

Thankfully, the immediate reward for earning the first promotion of this branch—Storyboardist—is the ability to more easily get into clubs around town, which will help with celebrity.

One of the great perks of the Film career is that the barrier rope is no longer your mortal enemy.

Right away, the Directing branch introduces a new metric: Writing skill. Because you need skills with a script, you must work on this useful skill on your own time.

Buy a computer for the house, use one at the local library, whatever—just tap those keys and start developing that skill.

As soon as you reach level 7 of the branch, 2nd Unit Director, you can stop worrying about relationships with your co-workers as a metric.

Now, you just need to concentrate on Writing skill, mood, and celebrity status. There are some great rewards for achieving the higher levels of this branch.

At level 8, you earn the ability to write screenplays at home. Just use a computer and choose the Write Screenplay interaction.

Now, you can start on a genre script (action, romantic comedy, drama, sci-fi, or indie), which also helps develop the skill. Completed scripts can be sold at the movie studio for big cash payouts.

At level 10, you are bestowed with the exclusive Director’s Chair object. You cannot buy this special chair. Only directors get this treat. Place it on your lot for a big environmental boost.

Acting Branch

Take on the Directing branch? Not you—the Sims of Bridgeport deserve to see your face twenty feet tall on the big screen.

You want to enter the exciting Acting branch of the Film career. The metrics for success in this branch change once you reach level 6, TV Actor/Actress.

After achieving this promotion, you no longer have to concern yourself with co-workers. However, you cannot just coast on celebrity status and mood. You must develop the Charisma skill in order to continue climbing the ranks.

Do yourself a favor and start developing this important skill before choosing the Acting branch so you have a leg up on the career.

When you achieve the Supporting Actor/Actress promotion, you are given a limo to drive you around Bridgeport. No more taxis for you.

This is now your carpool for work before a day’s shoot and your main ride when you need to run errands around Bridgeport.

At the top of the career, you are awarded your very own private trailer. This Superstar perk gives you a home away from home that you can place on a lot and enter, just like a small venue.

(You cannot decorate the inside of a trailer like an high-rise building.) The trailer can be placed in your inventory and pulled out when needed for interactions like Relax and Sleep.

You may also select the Throw Tantrum interaction the trailer, which makes your Sim go inside and have a real fit.

When they come back out, though, they have the Had Star Tantrum moodlet. (Surprise—this is actually a positive moodlet.)

The trailer is a good way to escape the little people...

The trailer can be used as a makeshift Create a Sim toolkit when you choose the Plan Wardrobe interaction on it. But perhaps the most entertaining trailer interaction is WooHoo.

If you have a relationship status with another Sim high enough to have WooHoo (or Try for Baby), both Sims enter the trailer. And when that trailer starts a-rockin’...

Tasks

As you work your way up through the Film career, you will sometimes be asked to complete certain tasks outside work. These jobs are usually pretty simple, but they are time sensitive.

When you are given one of these jobs, you are told exactly what needs to be done and when it must be completed.

If you fail to complete the job in the allotted time, your status at the job takes a hit. You won’t necessarily be fired, but you’ll definitely have to work harder to smooth out rankled feelings on the set.

Jobs often send you to other parts of town to perform simple tasks, like picking up food to bring back to the set or handing out flyers to promote a movie.

You are given a clear notification of a job and the parameters necessary to complete it on the left side of the screen. This job box tells you exactly what has to be done.

Map view also shows you where you need to go to complete the job, if it is outside the movie set. (Otherwise, on a task like staying late to clean a set, you just need to remain at work.)

Here are the jobs you may be asked to complete, including where you may be asked to go and potential rewards.

Film Jobs

Career Opportunities

The Film career has a series of opportunities unique to those pursuing silver screen dreams. Use this chart of opportunities to see how to complete the opportunities randomly offered to Film career Sims and what rewards await:

Film Opportunities