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no need to respond if you don't want to for any reason, but I'm curious do you work on films or shows or both? and what type of work do you do on sets?

lol no worries! i don’t like to talk specifics about my real life bc i love having this blog as a place where i can vent without worrying that people will be able to identify me irl so i’m gonna be a bit vague, but yeah i do film! i went to school for film and i currently work in the industry but not in production. i loooooove being on set and spent my last semester of school basically pa-ing for all of my friends’ capstone projects, it was a fucking blast! i’m trying to get out of my current job and get more into production now that i’m in my new area though :) also thinking about going back to school for cinema studies but i think that’s further down the road for me tbh

when i am on set professionally i’m usually a pa, i once got paid to babysit gear for five hours outside in the summer heat and another time for operating a zoom call for a talent press circuit. i don’t wanna like, over-explain anything obvious but if you don’t know, pa stands for production assistant and they’re basically the grunts who do everything and anything their supervisor tells them to do. not glamorous but it’s great to feel useful and everyone’s gotta start somewhere! on a student set i got to gaff/grip (set up lighting/sound equipment, respectively) a bit and i operated a jib (basically a low-fi crane) AND a dolly (i pushed a truck that the cinematographer and his camera was on back and forth for like fifteen takes to get a good tracking shot) which made me feel very tough and cool even though my arms were trembling the entire time. i also script supervised on a few sets and i LOVE doing that, if i have a long-term career goal in production besides writer/director/producer (bc everyone who goes to school for film but didn’t go to Film School wants to be a writer/director/producer lmao) it’s definitely scripty <3 they’re the ones who check for continuity between takes and shots as well as making sure all lines are being hit and that shots in the same location but in different times in the script are differentiated etc., it’s a lot but it’s the perfect blend of practical organization and creativity that my brain loves. but tbh just being on set, especially a fiction scripted set, is just my favorite feeling in the world, i could be told to stand in the corner and hold sandbags for ten hours and be happy :)