Wednesday, March 19, 2008
A designer in the entertainment industry
Live Design: "Any transitional stage in life has its challenges, but making a successful move from student to professional has to be one of the most difficult changes you will make, and choosing a career as a designer in the entertainment industry only further complicates the situation."
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This doesn't just apply to designers.. I think this is something we're all struggling with even when we look for summer work. It's hard to know what job to take or where to look and it seems the more help you try to get the more confused and indecisive you become. It's nice to know I'm not the only one but it's really something I'm not really sure how to deal with when I graduate.
I thought this article made a really good and interesting point about gaining respect for speaking tactfully and voicing your opinions, although I have a feeling this depends a lot more on the director and the production than this writer lets on. Personally, I found this bit about "marketing yourself" the most helpful, because that's something I've always had trouble with and worry about when it comes to one day finding real work.
I also appreciated the last part of this article. It's so easy as a student to get caught up with grades, etc. and forget how much you're growing and what good work you do and that you are doing what you love, but I can imagine this is just as difficult to keep sight of when you're worried about paying bills and taking on jobs.
I'm glad that this article adresses alot of points that everyone seems to be dealing with in some form or another. I think finding how market yourself after school is something that everyone has to figure out in that environment. For as such school teaches us and for how much they try to help us be prepared for the "real world" I think that it is something that only experience will give us like alot of things in our career.
This was interesting to me, because I have never put a lot of deep thought into what Life as a designer, probably a freelancer would be like. Right now, as people look for summer jobs and internships, I cannot halp but feel that the grass is almost always greener, on one hand I am happy that I have a job already, but that was the first job that came along. well there will be many more summers and many more opportunities. I agree with the article in that a lot of getting and keeping jobs in this industry is how you carry yourself, because that effects who knows you, therefore who hires you. This is something I hope I only get better at and an continue to do well as i work my way through school.
often times i feel that an academic setting provides a safe house for us. we know that if a job over the summer doesn't go well over a summer, it's okay, because we're coming back to school in the fall anyway. For me this article raises the question of whether school is even worth it in the end, i mean a majority of these skills are something that we can eventually learn will out in the field. so would it have been a better option to have just gone straight into a grunt position and work your way up the ladder? It is a question many of us struggle with, "what will we do after school?"
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