![]() ![]() Instead put the position – which should be appropriately entry level – after your name. (“An entry level position where I will be challenged to engage my people skills, make a meaningful contribution, and fulfil my creative potential, while having the chance to grow in the long term, rising to the top of the hierarchy in the industry.”) No. Especially don’t write a jargon filled exposition about your long term goals in lofty language. However if you are applying for any production or post-production – actual filmmaking – job it won’t help.įirst of all, please don’t put the “position sought” at the top of the page. This would be helpful only if you were applying for an office position with a studio or production company. (Individual Department Heads will keep the resumes of their own crews on file, so make sure you hand them an updated one at the end of any project.)Ī lot of the information about resume formats is designed for people seeking work in business or office situations. They keep them in case of emergencies, such as needing extra people for a day player job. ![]() Interestingly, my experience with production offices has been that when people say they will keep your resume on file, they generally do, but only for the duration of the picture/principle photography. I have known Unit Production Managers (UPMs) who never look at the cover letter, but only the resume or CV of credits, and others who read the cover letter attentively. An Industry Format Resume and Cover Letter. Today I might not take the job – since it was a micro budget project – but it was an interesting illustration of how timing can work.Ģ. The UPM walked in at that moment, and offered me the job as soon as I had hung up from taking the message, saying that I had evidently worked in a Production Office before, which I had. The UPM had stepped out of the understaffed office, so I just automatically picked up the phone when it rang and said, “Production”. ![]() I once got a Production Coordinator job when I visited a friend working on a picture. Some places have notice boards where you can post your cards. People looking for qualified workers will sometimes ask at the rental counter. This can include working at or befriending vendors and suppliers. So direct most of your attention to forming relationships with people already in the business. I have hired set dressers off resumes sent to the office – although I hired my immediate assistants from my own stable of people I knew or their recommendations. However you never know when someone might need extra help, so it is still worth sending your resume to the office. Sound Mixers usually bring in their own Boom Operator and Utility person. For example the Craft Service person will have his or her own assistants. Other than Production itself, most department heads essentially bring in all their people as a package deal. People will always hire someone with a recommendation ahead of a complete stranger.Your best bet is to know someone working at the mid-levels of your department, who might have the opportunity to recommend you when a hiring opportunity arises. Any time you have the chance to visit a friend working on a set or production office, do so. This is why networking events are important, but I always found a personal introduction to be even better. So on to the tips to help you get those first jobs. Unless you have a prior relationship like childhood buddies, my experience is that they will not fulfil that promise. Don’t rely on any promises made about the “next one”. Once you are on the radar as someone who works for free (other than students on official internships), you will not be called back, until they have another micro budget project. Or to put it another way, if you are going to sweep someone’s floors for free, you might as well sweep Steven Spielberg’s. It is better to be a tiny fish in the big pond, than a big fish in the tiny pond from which there is almost no chance of escape. Therefore, especially if you are interning, try to work on the highest budget, most prestigious film that you can, regardless of how lowly the position. If you start in low budget, you will tend to stay there. The best piece of advice I can give to any person starting out is this: most of the time you will tend to stay in the network or milieu in which you start. Movie work is a time consuming – long days, long weeks – and emotionally absorbing, as is any arts practice worth pursuing. I still write screenplays, but I don’t work in the Art Department of movies any more. 5 Tips for getting a job in film – other than acting ![]()
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