War Stories Assignment

Assignment Goals:
Learn some "real world" information you don't always get in class.
Allow the class, and myself, to benefit from the information you find.

Assignment Due:
Post on blog by Sunday, April 8th, 11;59pm.

Assignment Details:
This assignment is worth a possible 5 points, including one point for the thank you note you will photocopy for me.

Follow the basic guidelines laid out in Assignment 1 to contact people.

This is the production war story interview. Find someone who does a job that interests you and ask them:

1. In your job, what are some challenges you have to deal with in relating to “production” people (they will likely know exactly what you mean, production refers to producers, location people, coordinators, assistant directors and pa’s). Another way of asking this is to question how a production person can best help facilitate this person’s job.

2. Can you tell me a war story, or a story of when something went badly wrong, or seemed like it was going to fall apart, but then ended up working out [or didn’t work out]. If the story relates to producing or locations, that is terrific.

3. Do you have any advice for a person starting out in the business, someone who is about to graduate?

Post the war story to the blog and email it to me with contact information if they do not want their contact information on the blog (for this assignment, many won't).