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www.projectcasting.com: According to the report, producers were asked last year about the number and quality of Georgia’s film and TV workers. About 50% of producers were unable to hire all the workers they needed to work on their productions locally.
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Daniel S
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I’m a bit surprised that Georgia is having problems finding enough skilled, qualified people. I know someone who left a lecturer position at University of Toledo to go to Georgia to work. One the other hand, Detroit had the same problem when there was an incentive for producers to film in Michigan. Finding enough skilled people seems to be a problem almost everywhere. If various states keep giving incentives for producers to film in their states, this problem will keep growing. That is, unless those working on the various shoots move from state to state as producers change film locations. But that seems problematic and expensive. As the entertainment industry continues to grow and change, this problem will also grow and change. With changing technology and more demands, it will become increasingly difficult to find skilled technicians throughout the country. All of this only applies until all entertainment is made digital and done on a computer. Then we just have a new set of problems.
It doesn’t surprise me that Georgia film industry is having issues of filling their crew needs for all of their productions. It’s the fault of any state that offers kickbacks to having the industry film in their location in order to provide more work for their residents. The problem I see is that states are basically helping production companies outsource their own work needs to other states and taking away the work form states that have the long standing experience and training programs that produce quality workers. I don’t know how fast the Georgia colleges offering more classes and more programs are going to be able to help the industry if they are in demand of good skilled labor now. I fear that producing companies who are being forced to constantly fly out their skilled labor from California are going to leave before the students get out of school and all their training will have been for nothing. And in reality not all training in school is enough to be able to do the job fully it takes previous experience and learning from mistakes to be good at what you do. With the stakes that are being raised in Georgia the students leaving school might strongly lack the experience to be able to keep the skilled labor jobs in state.
2 comments:
I’m a bit surprised that Georgia is having problems finding enough skilled, qualified people. I know someone who left a lecturer position at University of Toledo to go to Georgia to work. One the other hand, Detroit had the same problem when there was an incentive for producers to film in Michigan. Finding enough skilled people seems to be a problem almost everywhere. If various states keep giving incentives for producers to film in their states, this problem will keep growing. That is, unless those working on the various shoots move from state to state as producers change film locations. But that seems problematic and expensive. As the entertainment industry continues to grow and change, this problem will also grow and change. With changing technology and more demands, it will become increasingly difficult to find skilled technicians throughout the country. All of this only applies until all entertainment is made digital and done on a computer. Then we just have a new set of problems.
It doesn’t surprise me that Georgia film industry is having issues of filling their crew needs for all of their productions. It’s the fault of any state that offers kickbacks to having the industry film in their location in order to provide more work for their residents. The problem I see is that states are basically helping production companies outsource their own work needs to other states and taking away the work form states that have the long standing experience and training programs that produce quality workers. I don’t know how fast the Georgia colleges offering more classes and more programs are going to be able to help the industry if they are in demand of good skilled labor now. I fear that producing companies who are being forced to constantly fly out their skilled labor from California are going to leave before the students get out of school and all their training will have been for nothing. And in reality not all training in school is enough to be able to do the job fully it takes previous experience and learning from mistakes to be good at what you do. With the stakes that are being raised in Georgia the students leaving school might strongly lack the experience to be able to keep the skilled labor jobs in state.
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