Fine Arts Career Services

After getting out of my slump of back luck and hard lessons, I finally got hired, and everything in my life started to pick up. My finances are not at all great, but I have room to breathe. My personal life is getting better. Most importantly, my job has offered me amazing opportunities. I work all day everyday Tuesdays through Sundays. It seems crazy but it worth it. I’m working with LightSound Productions, who are wrapping up a feature that they have been working on for about two years. My responsibilities are to capture the behind the scenes, and the making of the movie, and create a structure that I must edit into a featurette. Sounds complicated, but Im basically directing and editing the “Behind The Scenes” that will appear in the movie and on the dvd. The best part is, I’ll get created in the film, and get my own IMDB page. So that’s exciting. Lets see what happens next.

These past three weeks have been a bit of a roller coaster. It began with me finding out the hours that I have earned working at my internship throughout the semester, would not be counted for credit. I was absolutely devastated. Seems like EVERYTHING in my life had crumbled to the floor. I have been praying about all the other problems in my life, but finding out that school was in jeopardy, my other problems seemed irrelevant. So I searched and searched for work. I had one month to gather 150 hours of work, and let me tell you, that wasn’t the hardest part; it was a struggle finding work, no one needed interns. After making phone calls, calling in favors, praying my butt off, out of nowhere, I get a voicemail. Not a phone call, but a voicemail. I played it back, it was a guy named Brad, who heard about me through a friend. He offered me a job working long hours, but doing amazing work. From that point on, things have picked up for me. Things have definitely turned around for the best

I can’t believe this is my last week at Scott Free!  I am so sad to leave these cool, smart, fun people.  It is such an exciting atmosphere, and I’m always learning something new.  Since it is my last week, I feel like I have tons of work to wrap up here.  In addition to coverage and internship-related work, I also am finishing up my final projects for class.  Journals, treatments, pitches, and papers — oh my!  Also, I have been going on job interviews at production companies and multiple auditions that may lead to some really exciting opportunities!!  On top of all that, I am desperately looking for a place to live, since I plan to move out here right after the program.  This is perhaps one of the most stressful times I have ever endured.  I go from getting no sleep due to business or stress, to passing out in my clothes and almost arriving late to work.  Things are pretty crazy right now, but I’m sure that all this hard work will pay off.  In spite of the craziness, I am determined to finish strong.  I hope to leave a good impression at Scott Free, so I took extra time out of work today to write the best coverage I have ever written.  Luckily, I was given a script based on a classic work of American literature, so I was able to write good things about a good story.  I hope that the contacts I have made here and the coverage I have written will lead to a free-lance writing job!  We shall see…

Many internships include “grunt work” - menial tasks that the professionals don’t want to do.  One such task that I have had to perform recently?  Data entry.  BUT!  Instead of bemoaning this duty, I have chosen to see the benefits of this task.  I enter director/writer information into a system that prepares a massive database of these professionals.  I believe that the repetitive exposure to the names of these working professionals/artists will only increase my own database of knowledge, and in this town, information is key.  Knowing who writes the horror, who writes the comedy, and which ones flopped or sold at the box office will only benefit me in future conversations or deecisions.  Therefore, although hours of entering names, films, genres, agents, and companies into a database may give me a splitting headache, I have to trust that this is truly a significant part of my education.