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by gavinray
930 days ago
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On an unrelated note, could I ask your opinion? My wife is passionate about film/TV production and VFX. She's currently in school for this but is concerned about the difficulty of landing a job afterwards. Do you have any recommendations on breaking into the industry without work experience? |
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I think producer roles are a little bit less ultra competitive / scarce as they are actually jobs jobs where you have to use excel and planning and budgeting.
Being a producer means being on the phone all the time, negotiating, haggling, finding solutions where they don’t seem to exist.
Be it in TV, advertising or somewhere in the media space, the common rule is that producers are mostly actually terrible at their jobs, that’s my experience in London. So if she’s really good and really dedicated and learns the job of everyone on set, I’d say she has a shot.
The real secret to being good in filmmaking is learning everyone else’s job. Toyota Production System says if you want to run a production line you have to know how it works.
If she wants to do VFX production she could start doing her own test scenes, learning basics in nuke and Blender, even understanding the role of Houdini and how that works.
If she does that - any company will be lucky to have her.