Hashim Warren over on Career Greenlight interviewed me about Staffing season for the film and television industry.
We talk about:
Make sure you check it out here!
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Right now I am taking a break from the reality world, and working on another one of my dreams. I am currently a producer on an amazing short film called Traveling Through Life. It is a sci-fi short about a single parent household that is keeping a dark seceret that once exposed will change the world for everyone.
On this project I am working with a very talented group of young filmmakers that hope to take Hollywood by storm. In order to have this project reach it’s full potential I need to ask for your help.
We just launched our Kickstarter campaign. For those of you that don’t know what Kickstarter is; it is a crowd-funding website that helps independent artist raise money for their projects. I am currently asking all of my readers to take a moment of time to take a look at our project. Here is the link: http://kck.st/z8gZH5
If you can donate some money that is amazing! I cannot tell you how much I would appreciate that. If you cannot donate (which is understandable if you can’t) then I only ask that you help spread the word about this amazing project. The more people that know about it the better.
On behalf of the entire production crew I sincerely thank you for all of your support!
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Now I know a lot of people don’t really care about the Oscars anymore, however, I still hold that childhood dream of winning an Oscar someday. Here at the 2012 nominees!
Best Picture
“The Artist” Thomas Langmann, Producer
“The Descendants” Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Producers
“Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” Scott Rudin, Producer
“The Help” Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan, Producers
“Hugo” Graham King and Martin Scorsese, Producers
“Midnight in Paris” Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum, Producers
“Moneyball” Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt, Producers
“The Tree of Life” Nominees to be determined
“War Horse” Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers
Actor in a Leading Role
Demián Bichir in “A Better Life”
George Clooney in “The Descendants”
Jean Dujardin in “The Artist”
Gary Oldman in “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
Brad Pitt in “Moneyball”
Actor in a Supporting Role
Kenneth Branagh in “My Week with Marilyn”
Jonah Hill in “Moneyball”
Nick Nolte in “Warrior”
Christopher Plummer in “Beginners”
Max von Sydow in “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”
Actress in a Leading Role
Glenn Close in “Albert Nobbs”
Viola Davis in “The Help”
Rooney Mara in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
Meryl Streep in “The Iron Lady”
Michelle Williams in “My Week with Marilyn”
Actress in a Supporting Role
Bérénice Bejo in “The Artist”
Jessica Chastain in “The Help”
Melissa McCarthy in “Bridesmaids”
Janet McTeer in “Albert Nobbs”
Octavia Spencer in “The Help”
Animated Feature Film
“A Cat in Paris” Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli
“Chico & Rita” Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
“Kung Fu Panda 2″ Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“Puss in Boots” Chris Miller
“Rango” Gore Verbinski
Art Direction
“The Artist” Production Design: Laurence Bennett; Set Decoration: Robert Gould
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2″ Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
“Hugo” Production Design: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
“Midnight in Paris” Production Design: Anne Seibel; Set Decoration: Hélène Dubreuil
“War Horse” Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales
Cinematography
“The Artist” Guillaume Schiffman
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Jeff Cronenweth
“Hugo” Robert Richardson
“The Tree of Life” Emmanuel Lubezki
“War Horse” Janusz Kaminski
Costume Design
“Anonymous” Lisy Christl
“The Artist” Mark Bridges
“Hugo” Sandy Powell
“Jane Eyre” Michael O’Connor
“W.E.” Arianne Phillips
Directing
“The Artist” Michel Hazanavicius
“The Descendants” Alexander Payne
“Hugo” Martin Scorsese
“Midnight in Paris” Woody Allen
“The Tree of Life” Terrence Malick
Documentary (Feature)
“Hell and Back Again” Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner
“If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front” Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman
“Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory” Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
“Pina” Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel
“Undefeated” TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas
Documentary (Short Subject)
“The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement” Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin
“God Is the Bigger Elvis” Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson
“Incident in New Baghdad”James Spione
“Saving Face” Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
“The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom” Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen
Film Editing
“The Artist” Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
“The Descendants” Kevin Tent
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
“Hugo” Thelma Schoonmaker
“Moneyball” Christopher Tellefsen
Foreign Language Film
“Bullhead” Belgium
“Footnote” Israel
“In Darkness” Poland
“Monsieur Lazhar” Canada
“A Separation” Iran
Makeup
“Albert Nobbs” Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2″ Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng
“The Iron Lady” Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland
Music (Original Score)
“The Adventures of Tintin” John Williams
“The Artist” Ludovic Bource
“Hugo” Howard Shore
“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” Alberto Iglesias
“War Horse” John Williams
Music (Original Song)
“Man or Muppet” from “The Muppets” Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
“Real in Rio” from “Rio” Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown Lyric by Siedah Garrett
Short Film (Animated)
“Dimanche/Sunday” Patrick Doyon
“The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
“La Luna” Enrico Casarosa
“A Morning Stroll” Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe
“Wild Life” Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby
Short Film (Live Action)
“Pentecost” Peter McDonald and Eimear O’Kane
“Raju” Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren
“The Shore” Terry George and Oorlagh George
“Time Freak” Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey
“Tuba Atlantic” Hallvar Witzø
Sound Editing
“Drive” Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Ren Klyce
“Hugo” Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon” Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
“War Horse” Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom
Sound Mixing
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Bo Persson
“Hugo” Tom Fleischman and John Midgley
“Moneyball” Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco and Ed Novick
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon” Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Peter J. Devlin
“War Horse” Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and Stuart Wilson
Visual Effects
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2″ Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson
“Hugo” Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning
“Real Steel” Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg
“Rise of the Planet of the Apes” Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon” Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
“The Descendants” Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
“Hugo” Screenplay by John Logan
“The Ides of March” Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
“Moneyball” Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. Story by Stan Chervin
“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” Screenplay by Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan
Writing (Original Screenplay)
“The Artist” Written by Michel Hazanavicius
“Bridesmaids” Written by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig
“Margin Call” Written by J.C. Chandor
“Midnight in Paris” Written by Woody Allen
“A Separation” Written by Asghar Farhadi
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Here is a link on careergreenlight.com about my interview. I hope you all tune in January 16th!
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On Monday January 16, 2012 I will be interviewed by Hashim Warren on his blog Career Greenlight. The interview is going to cover hiring season for the television industry and what you can do to get your feet in the door. It is a live interview which will start at 4:00pm EST (1pm for those of you on the west coast).
Check out Hashim’s website at www.careergreenlight.com and make sure that you check out my interview!
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I know this is a few days late but Happy New Year everyone!!
Here’s to hoping that we all get where we want to be with your careers this year. What have you all be up to during the break?
As a side note:Â If anyone is still interested in receiving the UTA Joblist please go to google groups, search for film jobs and request to be a member.
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Over this past weekend I donated my time acted as AD on a friend’s short film. On this short our main actor was a 5 year old boy and as you can imagine things didn’t go exactly as planned.
Now if you have never shot with younger children then you better learn quickly that you need a whole lot of patience to get through the shoot. Nothing will go as you planned because little kids are spontaneous and don’t always do what you want them to do.
After this weekend I have to say I have so much respect for the people that worked on The Little Rascals back in 1994. The Director Penelope Spheeris has been quoted saying that the most difficult part about making The Little Rascals was working with the younger kids to get them to say their lines properly. Penelope, after my short shoot this weekend I seriously feel your pain : )
So here is what I have learned from this weekend: When shooting with young children ALWAYS plan more days and more time than you need. Be patient, because they are just kids and most importantly have fun with them because the more fun they have the better their performances will be.
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Video Assist
On film sets in order to allow multiple people to watch what is being recorded on the cameras monitors will be set up for the director, producers , DP and script supervisor.
The person that operates, controls and manages this feed and makes sure it is set up and working is called a video assist.
To get to this position, you need to start out as a production assistant. On set make friends with the current video assist and find out how they got there.
You should learn all you can about technical side of filmmaking, for example; learn about all of the cameras, what monitors are used, how to set them up, and most importantly how to troubleshoot when a feed is lost.
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Emily sent me an email asking me this question:
Hello Rachel,
I was reading your blog and I was hoping you would be able to give me some advice. I was recently working as a set decorator on a reality show but due to the budget they had to let me go. I have been franticly searching for a job and I have exhausted all of the free websites as well as all of my contacts. I was debating using Production Weekly or Mercury Report but I wanted to know whether either would be worth the money? As well as which one is better?
Thank you,
Emily
For those of you that don’t know, Production Weekly and the Mercury Report are websites where you pay a subscription fee to receive listings of different films and new television shows going into production and their contact information.
I personally have mixed feelings on these services. First a foremost the prices to get them are pretty high. Production weekly costs $59.95 a month, while Mercury Report is $52 a month but you will only get 4 issues or you can pay for a 6 month subscription which is $225 or a year which is $400. I don’t know about everyone else however, working on a PA salary that is a lot of freaking money to shell out.
Each service I think is hit or miss when it comes to actually getting a job from them. Most of these listings say that the production offices aren’t open yet and to not call them, while others say that the PO’s are open but when you call they are fully staffed and annoyed that you are calling. The trick is calling them exactly when the PO opens or a few weeks before they start principal production. Good luck though, because you and everyone else will be calling then too.
The benefits of signing up though are that you do get to see everything that is going into production and some way to contact them about it. If you don’t mind cold calling them and getting some fairly nasty attitudes then I would say go for it. They are somewhat beneficial to add to your job hunt but keep in mind they are pricey so make sure you can afford it.
If you do decide to get the reports make sure you check out Mercury Report’s How To Use tips to correctly call these productions.
Another option besides these services is signing up for IMDB’s pro service which is $99 a year. There you can search through all things in production and most have contact information for the production company or the studio.
As a side note: Production Weekly and Mercury Report do not have listings for reality shows in production. It is only films and scripted tv shows. For reality tv listings your best bet is realitystaff.com, and media-match.com. Also I can’t reiterate enough how important it is to keep up with your contacts, so even if you have exhausted them now, hit them up in a month or so to see where they are at.
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Have you ever come across this type of job ad online?
SEEKING CREW FOR INDEPENDENT FILM
Looking for crew with own equipment for Independent Feature film. Filming will take place in New York.
Any film students who are looking to work on his/her reel are encouraged to apply ASAP.
Looking to shoot in early December and end early January. This is a non-paying job but all participants will receive credit on film and copy of finished film on DVD. Meals also provided. This film will be entered in film festivals upon completion. There will also be a red carpet premiere event in June.
During my job hunt I cannot tell you how many of these types of ads I have come across, and let me tell you it can be extremely frustrating.
I have debated with numerous PA’s on the pros and cons on working for free and I have to say that I am still on the fence about it depending on what type of project it is. Here are a few scenarios:
Short Films
If you are asked by a good friend to work on a short film of theirs for free over the weekend then I would say yes work on the short film. As long as they offer to feed you for the day be a good friend and help your buddy out. You never know when you will be working on your own short and realize you have no money and need to call in favors.
When they offer you a position you are trying to break into
Here is where it starts to get tricky. Say you get asked to be a coordinator or a scripty on a short film for free. The producers of said short decided to bring you on because you have tons of PA experience and you know how to be in this position even though you do not have any credits for it. In this situation I would say to take the gig to get this credit on your resume. That being said I would be super careful about how long the gig is and that you don’t spend any of your own money for it.
Indie Feature for free
Here is where I will draw the line. Yes it takes money to make a feature film, however, you are now asking people to work for long periods of time for no money. Shoot days are not easy days, they are usually 10+ hours and when you are working for free, those 10+ hours can start to become miserable for your crew. A unhappy crew means an unhappy set which really means stress and bickering making it a very unpleasant filming experience.
These days because of things like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, it has gotten easier to begin to raise money for your film. With all the resources available to producers today I think it is an insult to ask your crew to work for free for long periods of time.
What are your thoughts on working for free?
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