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Production loves a flashy LinkedIn profile, but the people with the best paper trail are often the worst on set. I’d take a calm, competent PA from local news over some film school diva any day. Resumes don’t lift sandbags—people do.
One could argue ‘checks don’t sign themselves, producers do.’
In my experience, in the rank & file production culture, it's been rare to see people hired based on their resume or the school they attended, or on their LinkedIn profile. Maybe it's weighted differently now than it was in the past, and maybe it's weighted differently when networks and studios hire staffers, going through HR offices etc.
But on production staffing it's way more common to hire someone that you know . . . you don't even have to like them all that much, but you have to trust they'll deliver to a satisfactory degree. It's way better to know your team and their strengths and weaknesses than it is to put faith in someones's school pedigree. And once credits accrue, they outstrip the importance of the school.
So you’re mad bc an EP was EP-ing? I’m not tracking what exactly is being called out here…
crews are comprised of a mixed bag of people all of whom are responsible for staying in their own lane. If an EP gets a call from client they should ABSOLUTELY take it. Everyone’s department has different looking fires that require different set of skills and solutions.
I’ve had grips who call every female on set sweetheart while mansplaining a call sheet to someone well above them on the roster, to directors with very poor ways of staying regulated on set bc they choose to mitigate stress w/ booger sugar, and a 2nd AD who refuses to heed caution while transporting crew and ends up crashing the production car. Despite those and many more instances I’ve never deduced anyone’s credibility based on film school vs. no film school…
I can’t stress enough that each department functions differently and throwing shade and assuming someone’s work ethic is childish and counter intuitive and tells me you don’t know how set works.
Three cheers for this - indeed the best people in production did some mix of: started in production, learned doing production and/or from people that excel in production and take pride in producing the shit out of anything and as such, are amazing at production. This can be anyone: from an Ivy League educated person to somebody who came off the street and given a job.
I think ego thing plays really big part of this issue. If you went to a big school or have flashy brands on your resume, you lose your humbleness that production requires more days than not. Anyone can show up to a set and sit in video village and act cool with a set of headphones on. It takes a special breed of person to carry sandbags and tape cables down at 6 in the morning before any of the big wigs show up.