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1.      After the end of every independent production the company ends as well, so I can’t work specifically there, but in the same field. In this field I would like to try working full time. I have never worked on set during my internship only as a production assistant for the office. It was a lot of what the description of what question number one contained “I worked as a production assistant for 6 months… running around getting coffee, sitting for hours on a set wait for one thing or another.” Replace set with the production office and 6 months with a semester and you kind of have my experience in a nutshell. Honestly, the internship was a little discouraging and it makes me want to look at other fields. It is discouraging because I don’t like the idea of work taking up all my time and everyone worked 12 to sometimes 14 hour days. Most of those people were doing paperwork too which is probably something no one can escape in life but that I thought would be less a part of film. So many jobs are just divided up based on what paperwork they do versus something that I thought would include more physical or creative exertion. Still I don’t think I got a full view of film production as I was mostly in the office, so I would like to give it another shot.
From outside of my internship, I saw my friend one day who just finished a job as a production assistant on a TV show and he looked exhausted. He was working the same amount of hours I mentioned before and had no social life because of it.
I wouldn’t say this is a career/industry/position I would never want to have, but I also don’t think it looks all that great anymore. In general starting out in any work you are not starting from the top and don’t get the best pay or even great hours, but when I see the amount of people who are giving up so much of their time and sometimes not going that far up the ladder it can look discouraging. On the other hand set is still something I have never tried that looks more interesting to me. I’ve always been an active person so I think working on set versus sitting in an office for a large amount of time would be more appealing to me.

2.      The most important thing I learned from this experience is how to do production assistant office work. I know how to do the daily script sides, do research for things that the production needs (such as truck parking, apartments for directors or actors..etc) and other general office things that could translate into an office job, but that also gave me knowledge on film production.

3.      I think I networked as much as I could. I made a joke to my friend about how everyone who works in film is really cranky because they don’t get much sleep, but mostly I wasn’t joking. Some people are just not very interested in knowing an interns name, some people are kind of, but also are kind of too busy. After reading other people’s blog posts on here I am wondering if this is just specific to my internship experience as other students seemed to get to extensively make connections while I feel very much like I am not sure where I stand with people.

4.      I would and I wouldn’t recommend this internship to other students at QC. Reading other student’s blog posts made me slightly disappointed in my experience in comparison. I think that there are probably better internships out there, but I think my experience at this internship could help me land a better internship in the future. So yes in experience it is something great that I can put on my resume.