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I am finishing college soon and i am moving onto film & television Production at Uni. I Would love to get work experience during the summer holidays but realise it may be too late this year, so next year would be good too. Where could i gain work experience during the summer holidays when i don’t have a degree and i am not sure which part of production i wish to progress into. Any placement would be awesome because it’s all experience and i want to end up in that area of work.

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Many of them, because making a movie requires a lot of different skills, and almost every kind of skilled worker has their own union.

If you only want to know about the actors’ unions, that would be SAG (the Screen Actors Guild) for movie actors, and AFTRA (the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists) for TV actors.

I’m doing some research on Television Production and need to find a target audience for the industry. Would the target audience be media corporations such as Disney? How do you find a target audience for a whole industry?

Based on what I see on TV. They are WAAAAY off. I watch SciFi currently known as the Syphilis channel, History channel and am a Motorcycle riding guitar rocking AD&D playing Satyr with the same IQ as Einstein. From what I’ve seen their target audience consists of impotent overweight low IQ and mid management failures and spectators who will never amount to anything.

I now the National Renewable Energy Laboratory has done the Homework on this, It works it is clean, you could make money selling it, so whats the problem?

WESTINGHOUSE / CBS INC.
Westinghouse Electric Company, part of the Nuclear Utilities Business Group of British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL)
GENERAL ELECTRIC –(donated 1.1 million to GW Bush for his 2000 election campaign)

Television Holdings:
* NBC: includes 13 stations, 28% of US households.
* NBC Network News: The Today Show, Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, Meet the Press, Dateline NBC, NBC News at Sunrise.
* CNBC business television; MSNBC 24-hour cable and Internet news service (co-owned by NBC and Microsoft); Court TV (co-owned with Time Warner), Bravo (50%), A&E (25%), History Channel (25%).
The "MS" in MSNBC
means microsoft
The same Microsoft that donated 2.4 million to get GW bush elected.

Other Holdings:
* GE Consumer Electronics.
* GE Power Systems: produces turbines for nuclear reactors and power plants.
* GE Plastics: produces military hardware and nuclear power equipment.
* GE Transportation Systems: runs diesel and electric trains.
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Gates Wants Nuclear Power Plant

The San Francisco Art Institute, California College of the Arts, or the Academy of Art University. They are all in San Francisco, and I just want to make sure I apply to the best one! I’m interested in directing!

None are likely to lead to the career you want. Check with their placement offices to verify how many of their graduates have succeeded as directors. If they cannot tell you, stay away.

The only colleges in the US which have programs which lead to any real possibility of employment in this overcrowded field are USC, UCLA, and NYU. Even their graduates are more likely than not to face constant disappointment, rather than a good career.

Save your money and avoid the San Francisco schools.

I am doing a project and can’t for the life of me find any information on the current issues/challenges that Film and television production are facing.
if any one could help this would be greatly appreciated!

The big issue is money. There’s always an endless amount of creative people wishing to make movies, the limited resource is professional talent - veteran crew and actors you can bank on to make a good movie won’t exactly work for free…

Hollywood Studio movies are doing pretty well, but these are actually the minority of the industry, volume-wise. TV and independent films are suffering badly, people in the biz say that indie productions have been virtually wiped off the map - investing in movie is a very risky venture (most likely it will flop…), and these days no one wants to put their money in that anymore. TV, as said, is challenged by the internet and is trying to find its viewership.

Look for more info at variety.com
Also search dvinfo.net and you can politely ask questions in the forums there and get good answers.
You may subscribe to the students-basics forum at http://www.cinematography.net/index.htm . You could then ask the industry professionals themselves, but be _very_ polite.

im planning to move away with my partner,,but i cant go to uni there and they mentioned the idea of an apprenticeship so does anyone know what companies do apprenticeships in television production in dorset??
ive already done that

Try and Google
Television Production Companies
then aprentiship.

Estimating both educationally and by the standard of life…
Thanks for detailed answers and assistance.

My brother is a year older than me and is leaving college now and applying for uni’s. He also wants to follow a career in television so the uni’s I know he’s looked at are Bournemouth and Ravensbourne (I dunno if these are the correct spellings). He said Ravensbourne seems the best for television and that is his first choice . . . if you are at college then ask your film teacher for advice or the college careers advice person or something. Good luck applying

I am goin to school for a degree in mass communication ( radio & Television). what are the top cities to get a job in this field

I would think the top Nielsen markets like NY, Los Angeles, Chicago ….. Atlanta is probably better than some cities (like Tampa) but not as good as others. There are several talk shows and such originating from here, so you may have a shot. But from my experience when I was a NYC publicist, those jobs are hard to come by and connections can’t hurt.

One of the toughest challenges of successfully working with a green screen studio is evenly lighting it. The screen itself requires its own lighting ; independent from your foreground subject lighting.

The secret is to evenly light your screen, while avoiding the creation of shadows. You ideally need your screen to represent a single, consistent colour. Remember, because you’re making an attempt to use the narrowest colour range as you can, shadows broaden the range, and are a contributor to diminished effects. If you have shadows ( darker colours ), they might not be picked up by the camera, and as a consequence ; those areas won’t be replaced. If you’re working with a low-budget setup, shadows become tougher to stop due to the cheaper, less specialized materials used.

This is the reason why it is even that much more important to be sure your lighting is as even as possible, especially when working with lower budget setups. Using at least 2 lights ( the more the better ), you must direct light inwards from either side, and from below ; alter until you get the most even lighting. Using diffusion filters makes a huge difference during this step. They seriously decrease the occurrence of shadows. Next, when you add your subject, you’ll spot the subject’s foreground lighting casts shadows on the screen ; you will need to readjust your screen lighting and filters for your screen colour evenness again.

When choosing a material for your green screen studio, always think about the lighting. Shiny materials yield bad results, as they reflect light and make replaced areas appear paler. At the same time, shiny materials will cast shadows, causing darker areas to not get replaced in the result. What you want to go looking for is a matte surface. Matte surfaces will diffuse light ; causing even lighting across the whole material, and {therefore ,} a narrower colour range. That is, there’ll be less reflected light ; paler outcomes, aand less shadows ; non-replaced outcomes. Some of the less expensive options when starting out are solids such as card or wood, painted green. Another option is a fabric such as canvas painted or dyed green. Defects such as creases, bumps or divisions in your material are an enemy as they create shadows, and so defects in your ensuing pictures. If you choose fabric, confirm it is adequately thick or dense, and doesn’t let light or its resting surface show through.

When shooting with your green screen studio, your subject is also a large factor in your lighting decision. You want to create a price difference between your subject and your green screen. Sometimes a 2 stop difference ( greenscreen is 2 stops lower or higher than the subject ) between the green screen studio and the subject is preferable as a lighting difference.

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