Actors do various odd jobs waiting for the big break, but do aspiring movie directors, authors and film-makers do the same? How do they pay the bills while writing their first movies? Do occasional jobs as assisting directors do it? It sounds way too unstable.
How Do Movie Directors Survive While Becoming Movie Directors?
Posted by admin on November 25th, 2009
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Unlike actors and actresses, most if not all directors have a college education. If a aspiring director is good at his or her job in school, they are often offered jobs before they graduate doing assistant director work, or doing something else film related to help them get started. These jobs pay well, like all other college level jobs, and you can often get something you enjoy. You work your way up from there, just like any other job. You just need to gain some experience before diving into the head position all by yourself very first thing.
most of my friends have day jobs. When they can, they will work their way up through the system – production assistant, 2nd AD, 1st AD, UPM… if you can get in the union, it pays well and you can get more jobs. The hours are long, so you can often work on as few as five films or commercial projects a year and make a year’s worth of living expenses.
Some act. Some write. Some do what ever it takes.