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How do you prioritize skills?
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When you say “looking to get in” what do you mean? What are you currently studying? What area of film are you interested in?
Just start filming videos. Build your portfolio. Without a portfolio you will be overlooked. No matter how much you network you need to be able to show your skills when someone ask to see your work. Especially If you want in to Hollywood, no one will go off of good faith (very rare). So, if you know someone looking to have videos made collab with them. Or you can go on Backstage and find actors looking to build their portfolio so it will be a win-win all around.
I’m in the same boat, but I’ve been out of college for a couple of years. Honestly, I was been trying to get my head in the door somewhere. Maybe to be a PA for a studio a trained to be a camera man. I score films, so maybe a beginner audio production role ?
Film and entertainment covers a huge variety of roles. Which particular sector do you want to get into? Film making? Acting, voice acting? Sound production? VFX? Script writing? Design?
If you can move to LA, do it. I wouldn’t normally recommend such a thing but for the film industry, it’s a major step in the right direction. I just moved from LA to Texas, but for the last 20 years in California, I worked at Panavision in Woodland Hills. In my time there I saw countless friends come in to the shipping receiving department and leave with a film or tv crew to go travel the world and make movies or local tv shows. It’s literally one of the easiest and fastest ways to get out into the field. There are many other camera rental houses out there that have similar results, but none are as a big as Panavision. The Panavision Hollywood location has a two year program that can streamline that process. You work at that location with the understanding that in two years, you be out in the field, with some hard work of course. Camera rental houses are one of the best ways to get out into the field. Good luck out there!
Network your heart out would be my advice! Get to know your peers in the industry.