1. Brief description of job:
Hilarey is a freelance producer, production manager and post producer based out of Washington D.C. She handles an array of duties including: directing, writing scripts, budgeting, casting and managing corporate videos.
She has worked on projects for: Discovery Channel, TLC, Food Network, MTV, HGTV, AOL, Habitat for Humanity, Dept. of Defense, and more.
2. How she started:
After graduating, Hilarey began as an assistant to a producer, who was a friend of the family. He produced videos for events and he mentored her for the two years that she worked for him.
After Sept. 11th she got laid off. Afterwards, with the support of maintained connections, she began freelancing.
She highly stresses maintaining all connections as you gain work, and meet potential customers.
3. Advice on telling someone that you can not accomplish an assigned task:
Hilarey says never tell someone that you cannot accomplish an assigned task, unless there is absolutely no way to get it accomplished. She then gave an example of how once she was assigned accounting duties. Even though she was not confident with her accounting capabilities she still managed to accomplish the task.
4. Advice for media students looking to start out:
Get an internship while you are still in school. It will be the first step in gaining exposure and connections. Hilarey interned at the non-profit organization, Women in Film and Video (http://www.wifv.org/). She says that she still benefits from connections made from this internship.
Lastly, she says if you ever have interest working abroad, then look into the media departments for the Peace Corp., State Dept., etc. All have production departments and would make traveling abroad a possibility.
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