My Goals

Currently, I have a massive amount of personal goals that I would love to achieve within the media industry.

But how do I achieve these?

There's always going to be a journey - I don't expect to start at the tip of the ladder, I'm fully aware I need to start at the button but how do I get my grip on the first step?

My main goal that I'm going to research into achieving is my dream job - being a full time producer of a variety of films and TV series. Luckily for me I've known for a long time what role I would like to partake in when I finally join the industry, so I have already got my grip on the first step of the ladder by attending university to grow my skills.

However, I haven't gave it much thought to what come nexts after university, I haven't even planned for what comes next despite being into my second year!

So how could I potentially achieve my goal and become a producer? Well, a lovely online guide written by Amy Clark Films (2019) details a few fews on how to advance in the movie producer career. By going through this side I have realised that I have personally already completed a few of these tasks, such as studying a course or degree, producing short films, understanding the various roles of a producer. This grows my confidence as I have already achieved a variety of these steps.

However, by researching further I found a more official website - National Careers Service-GOV.uk (2019), which is extremely helpful. It details statistics such as pay, potential working hours and unconventional working conditions - such as working bank holidays or away from home. There as also a variety of links provided that offer more information or offer opportunities for jobs or apprenticeship for young people who want to start in the media. I'm slightly anxious to join the industry as there has always been a supposed bias against women - an article by The Atlantic: The Brutal Math of Gender Inequality in Hollywood details some of the statistics against women. One shocking figure: "In 2017, women comprised 18 percent of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers working on the top 250 domestic grossing films" Which is pretty scary when that was only 3 years ago! Is the industry going to change and allow me to show my potential? I won't know unless I get there...

So what have I learned?

From my understanding I need to work extremely hard if I want to achieve my goal of being a producer for a decent company. But how am I going to do this? Experience. I need to start producing more projects on the side, applying for work experience and possibly offering my services to friends or free lance projects. So now with these next steps in mind, I can work expressly hard to make sure I advance.