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- ImmovableSquid
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I come from an industry background. My father was a television and movie assistant director when I was growing up. I didn't go to school for it, but my father kept friends in the industry after he retired I used to get PA work through them. Specifically from people like grips that he came up with when he was in the industry. They would be working on something like Boardwalk Empire and would give me the phone number of the person on that production to speak to. Then I would cold call them and do my best. These would be either for ongoing productions that might need a PA, or for a project they knew was going to happen at some point soon. Then you socialize on the job, make friends, ask questions, try helping out in some of the different technical positions. Make your own connections. Work your way along and find out where your talent lies.
If you don't have a father with connections, or your a recent arrival, something I recommend (or at least worked back when I did PA stuff) there's usually a couple of places to hang out. In Manhattan there were two major places that you had to visit to get shooting permits and paperwork. You hang out there waiting for someone to come along to file paperwork and see if they need anyone. While you wait there's going to be around one to three other people doing the same thing. Socialize with them. Get to know them. Make some friends. Then maybe six months from now you can call them and ask if there's anything for you on the job they are on, and they can call you.
Pay for a PA was pretty standardized, dome amount more than $100 a day. Not a huge amount for what could be a 6 or an 18 hour day.
This is all advice for the Manhattan professional television and television commercial work from my experiences with it 5-10 years ago. I have no idea what the other coast is like.
Being a PA is fun and hard work. It's awesome to try out all the other positions as much as they will let you. Sometimes you get to operate the machine that makes the steam rise off the hamburger patty and sometimes you get to hold golden wings behind a nude woman for fuuuuuuucking hours.
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Oct 16, 2016 18:42
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- BornAPoorBlkChild
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If you don't have a father with connections, or your a recent arrival, something I recommend (or at least worked back when I did PA stuff) there's usually a couple of places to hang out.
i once met kevin smith while working as a janitor at Hartsfield Jackson airport true story 
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Oct 17, 2016 21:05
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- BornAPoorBlkChild
- Sep 24, 2012
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Filming industry continues to grow locally
By KANDICE BELL|Oct. 30, 2016 - 8:10 AM
The boom in the motion-picture industry in Coweta and other parts of Georgia is showing no signs of slowing, according to the state’s chief film recruiter.
Lee Thomas, deputy commissioner at the Georgia Department of Economic Development and division director of the Georgia Film, Music & Digital Entertainment Office, predicts the industry will continue bringing new jobs, businesses and tourism to Coweta. She was the guest speaker Tuesday morning at the NuLink Early Bird Forum hosted by the Newnan-Coweta Chamber of Commerce.
Coweta is famous for AMC’s hit television series, “The Walking Dead,” and before that for the movie “Fried Green Tomatoes,” as well as various TV pilots and movies.
Although the local film industry is bigger than it ever was, Georgia has been in the movie business since 1973.
“It was all started by Jimmy Carter because of the movie ‘Deliverance,’” Thomas said. “It brought money into the state and they decided to try to get more money for the state.”
“Deliverance” is about four men canoeing down a river in the Georgia wilderness whose encounters with dangerous rapids and backwoods locals lead to violence.
“In the late 1990s, businesses started going to Canada because of tax incentives,” Thomas said.
The final straw for Georgia legislators was when, “Ray,” the movie about the life of Georgia native rhythm-and-blues musician Ray Charles, went to Louisiana because of tax incentives.
“We had to level the playing field with incentives or get out of the business entirely,” she said.
In order to regain a competitive stance with other states, Gov. Sonny Perdue signed the 2008 Entertainment Industry Investment Act into law. Companies receive a 30 percent tax credit for projects filmed in Georgia. Ten percent of the 30 percent is acquired only if the Georgia promotion logo is shown in the qualified project.
Thomas said Georgia does not have the highest tax incentives, and some states give cash back, but higher incentives do not necessarily do better.
“Michigan did a 42 percent tax incentive, but it didn’t work very well,” she said. “Companies have to be able to spend locally to help with the economy.”
Thomas said the state-of-the-art infrastructure and studios, the temperate climate, highly skilled workforce, diverse shooting locations and direct fights through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport make Georgia an ideal location for the film industry. Pinewood Studios in Fayetteville is the largest movie studio outside of Los Angeles.
For the year 2016, there have been 245 productions filmed in Georgia, with $2.2 billion spent and an economic impact of $7 billion.
“It is amazing what is happening here,” she added. “The film industry is responsible for more than 79,100 jobs, which have an average salary of $84,000 per year, which is 75 percent higher than the average salary nationwide.”
Thomas said Georgia is third in the country, behind California and New York, in infrastructure growth.
She said more stages, lights and cameras are coming to the state, and as long legislators stay friendly to incentives, there is more in store for the movie industry in Coweta and Georgia.
A native Atlantan, Thomas received a bachelor of the arts in radio-TV-film from The University of Georgia and returned to Atlanta to earn a master's degree in film studies from Georgia State University. In 1992, she entered the Tisch School of the Arts doctoral program in cinema studies at New York University, then began a job at the Brooklyn Arts Council. She returned to Atlanta in 1996 to work for the Georgia Film and Videotape Office as a project manager and then became a location specialist for the office in 1998.
After finding locations for film and television projects for 12 years, she became director of the film division in 2010. Films that Lee has worked with include “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” “The Blind Side,” “Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil,” “Footloose,” “Fast 5,” “The Conspirator,” and “Zombieland,” which was filmed largely in Coweta County.
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Lee Thomas, deputy commissioner at the Georgia Department of Economic Development and division director of the Georgia Film, Music & Digital Entertainment Office, explains tax incentives to attendees at the NuLink Early Bird Forum Tuesday morning.
Andy Miller (right) thanks Lee Thomas (left) for being the speaker at the Tuesday morning’s NuLink Early Bird Forum.
Attendees listen to Lee Thomas talk about the movie industry growth and how legislation played a part in bringing movie tax incentives to Georgia.
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if you think I don't know this is an insane, impossible hill to climb) and at the very least commune with fellow goons who are in the same boat as me. The Film/Video and Cinematography thread are loving ghost towns as far as industry discussion goes.
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