Well the semester is closing and I am done with college. In less then two weeks I will be walking across a stage and receiving my degree. That is assuming that I get a D- or higher in two of my classes. I’m leaving college, the safety net, being independent with being able to call my parents and begging them for money or whatnot. I am forced to grow up, get a job, pay bills, pay college loans back (which I will be paying $330 a month till 2018). My biggest concern is finding a job that can actuality support me. I want to work in entertainment and film, and lets face it, everybody wants you to be willing to work for free.
The problem with people wanting you to work for free is that film is such an exclusive way to make a living that kids that are trying to make it into the business are willing to work for nothing. They loose their self worth and their value because they want their foot in the door in a career that offers no guaranties
Chris Gore (author of Ultimate film festival survival guide) writes on this section. He believes that one of the biggest problems with entertainment is that the people in charge want slave labor, the people trying to break into film are willing to be slaves in the hopes of getting a job in the future.
He later goes on discussing that this was one of the main causes for the writers strike. The studios were taking the writers scripts and posting the episodes online and/or making them write a teaser or mini episodes for the web and did not want to pay them for their extra work (there is more to it but in a nutshell)
My biggest fear is there is no set guild lines of how much someone makes for the job the are working on. It all depends on the project. This means that sometimes to make connections you have to be willing to work for peanuts. But I would like to think of myself as having ethics. I am NOT a slave, I will NOT work for free because making a film is not charities work. But I understand that sometimes you have to take the low paying job to get somewhere better.
But I’m DONE WITH SCHOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
