In America is it easy to get a job in Film Production (Production, Post-Production)?
I was wondering if it was easy to get a job in America in Film Production.
I’m Studying in Production, Post-Production in Canada at the moment but i would really like to work in America Because everything looks so easy..
Thank You
—> William
It depends. If you live in Los Angeles, and have a six month to a year cushion of savings (even with cost-of-living in LA) to be a PA or runner for a little while until you impress the right person, yeah, you can get it with Lighting or Sound without much difficulty. For post, it’s the same deal, though that’s slightly worse because there are far fewer post jobs.
Honestly, though, why would you want to? Hollywood is a miserable, catty, incestuous business where best friends will stab you in the back. Canada’s film board pays generous subsidies for Hollywood to come up there, and shoot using CA film crews. Get on with a local gaffer or sound guy or DP in Canada (major cities only, especially Vancouver) and just stay where you have free health care, reasonable costs of living, and only slightly-increased chances of being trampled by a moose.
May 7th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
careers abroad are surely an exciting prospect, but you have to be really vigilant of the law-related implications, if you don’t do your research properly, there can be nasty results! The site in the box below has a lot of tips on careers abroad, my pal stumbled upon it, now he is a barman in Tasmania!
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May 7th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
It depends. If you live in Los Angeles, and have a six month to a year cushion of savings (even with cost-of-living in LA) to be a PA or runner for a little while until you impress the right person, yeah, you can get it with Lighting or Sound without much difficulty. For post, it’s the same deal, though that’s slightly worse because there are far fewer post jobs.
Honestly, though, why would you want to? Hollywood is a miserable, catty, incestuous business where best friends will stab you in the back. Canada’s film board pays generous subsidies for Hollywood to come up there, and shoot using CA film crews. Get on with a local gaffer or sound guy or DP in Canada (major cities only, especially Vancouver) and just stay where you have free health care, reasonable costs of living, and only slightly-increased chances of being trampled by a moose.
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May 7th, 2010 at 2:19 pm
of course not - there are not a lot of jobs like that anywhere and very few are full time year-round jobs - most are probably film-by-film projects, and you could be unemployed for long periods of time before projects
even the most common jobs - actors - 90+% of members of the SGA make less than $10,000 a yr doing acting acting jobs and most of those jobs are in California, - a very expensive state to live, so very few people make a DECENT living as actors
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