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CORPORATE FILMMAKER: Be Ready To Change & Adapt To Circumstances

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Iain, a corporate filmmaker, creates videos introducing new products, for HR, and ones sending messages from company CEOs. He began working in film through working in drama with students. He started making films about young people, but later moved on to corporate films. Having changed career numerous times, he tells us that is is important to be ready to change and adapt to circumstances.

Degree: Business

Job Title: Corporate Filmmaker

Employer: Self-Employed

Job Summary: Producers and Directors

Job Description

Producers and directors are in charge of creating motion pictures, television shows, live theater, and other performing arts productions. They interpret a writer's script to entertain or inform an audience.

Large productions often have associate, assistant, and line producers who share responsibilities. For example, on a large movie set an executive producer is in charge of the entire production, and a line producer runs the day-to-day operations. A TV show may employ several assistant producers, whom the head or executive producer gives certain duties, such as supervising the costume and makeup team.

Similarly, large productions usually employ several assistant directors, who help the director with tasks such as making set changes or notifying the performers when it is their time to go onstage. The specific responsibilities of assistant producers or directors vary with the size and type of production they work on.

Producers make the business and financial decisions for a motion picture, TV show, or stage production. They raise money for the project and hire the director and crew. The crew may include set and costume designers, a musical director, a choreographer, and other workers. Some producers may assist in the selection of cast members. Producers set the budget and approve any major changes to the project. They make sure that the film or show is completed on time, and they are responsible for the way the finished project turns out.

Directors are responsible for the creative decisions of a production. They select cast members, conduct rehearsals, and direct the work of the cast and crew. During rehearsal, they work with the actors to help them portray their characters better.

Directors work with designers to build a project’s set. During a film’s postproduction phase, they work closely with film editors to make sure that the final product comes out the way the producer and director want.

Although directors are in charge of the creative aspects of a show, they ultimately answer to the executive producer.

On-the-Job Training

None

Quick Facts

Average salary

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$30,000 - $170,000

Projected Job Growth

5 to 15 percent

Typical schedule

Irregular, Varies Widely

Typical workplace

Indoor, Travel, Outdoor, Remote

Personal Qualities

Creativity, Leadership ability, Organizational skills, Verbal communication skills, Artistic, People skills, Public speaking ability, Teamwork

Educational Path

Education Requirement

Bachelor's degree

Recommended Education Degree

Bachelor's degree

Recommended Majors

Writing
Journalism
Performing Arts
Business and Management
Fine Arts
Film and Photography

Related Careers

Actors
Announcers
Art Directors
Dancers and Choreographers
Editors
Film and Video Editors and Camera Operators
Multimedia Artists and Animators
Musicians and Singers
Set and Exhibit Designers
Writers and Authors

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P3.instances[0].transcript.parse_transcript_data({"transcript":"My name is Ian Thomson. I work from the UK, and I'm a corporate filmmaker. So a lot of the stuff I work on is to do with the optical networking industry. And so I work on corporate videos. Either introducing new products, or HR ones, or people telling, themselves, about what they do. Similar to this I suppose. About their jobs and about how they enjoy working for certain companies. Some of the stuff maybe had to do with the company's particular messaging for the year. So it may well be the CEOs of companies talking about where they see the company going for the year. So it's a lot of that sort of stuff. And also for fun. I try to mix it up with a nice cut aways-- time lapses of great cities from around the world, if I can do. Especially places like San Francisco. So my degree is in business studies. But I was also a big fan of the arts. So I started doing drama stuff around schools. Around primary and high schools-- so elementary and high schools. And from that, people asked me to do some work with some of the student's on film stuff. So I started to do a bit of that. And it was mainly a hobby at first. And then slowly over about five or six years, I got more and more into it. And eventually started to do films with young people on issue based stuff like bullying or anti-social behavior. And finally I got into doing corporate stuff, which is where I am now. So if I could speak to my younger self, I think I would give them the advice that eventually my uncle gave me. Which is to not worry about your career too much. While you're still young-- do what you enjoy basically. I've been through four or five different careers before I landed at this one. Which is one that if I can do, I'd like to stick with. I always remember my uncle telling me that he used to help his dad out fixing up loft attics. And one day, saw a guy come into the house and the guy said to the-- he was showing the guy around, this house was for sale. And he said-- he saw the guy, said to the guy, said yes so that's pretty much the house. Do you want to go and get lunch? And he thought that's the career for me. Where you can just show someone around a house for a quarter of an hour, and then go get lunch. And he became a salesman. He's very good at it. But he said, he didn't find that until he was about 28, 29. Similarly, I got into this about the same age. But throughout all my 20's, I did various things that I enjoyed. And when that really didn't go as well or when the industry fell apart a bit, then I changed what I was doing. And I think that's the thing. Be ready to change and to adapt to circumstances. And don't worry, do what you enjoy. And hopefully that will land you in something really fun and something you enjoy doing. ","file":{"id":371357,"video_id":"3328283802001","name":"2249-Iain-CorporateFilmmaker1","duration":167532,"thumbnail_url":null}});