Marketing

Marketing section

This talk was held by a group of different studios to give the audience advise on how to get yourself out there, and what to expect when going into the industry at an entry level. I did learn some valuable tips and tricks, but I also learnt more about how these studios work in terms of hiring and intern-ships, which gave me knowledge of what to expect.

There were 5 representatives of different studios each with different roles at the front to give the audience a range of inputs from different areas:

The Mill:

VFX based in London

Predominantly commercials

game cinematic

music promos

colour grading

motion graphics

hiring juniors in 2D

Framestore

Based in america

Visual effects

Commercials

Film

hire as runners to give them an opportunity to get into the industry

ILM - Industrial light magic

Based in San Francisco, Singapore and London

140 crew members - set to be 300 by next year

internships in development

MPC

Based in London, Montreal, Vancouver

2D for film/advertisement

Double Negative

Based in London, Singapore, Vancouver

Film focused

TV division

There are similarities in all of the studios that were in attendance, they each hire people as runners at an entry level to get them involved in the industry, but they will only hire runners after seeing their show reels. NPC does a 3 month intensive training course, but again need to see show reels. so this talk really opened my eyes as to the importance of show-reels, as it is the face of you! so it emphasised the importance of investing as much time as possible to making it the best it can be! this coming from every studio, just made it a bigger priority for me.