Meeting New People

A big part about trying to be successful in this field is to be able to network with other people. As you network with people who have particular skills you will probably learn about other people who have a particular set of skills, and you will be able to share your skills too.

This is actually how I have gotten a fair amount of my work, networking is probably the most key thing that any aspiring professional should do, especially in the area of Film and Audio.

An example of how networking is powerful is how I met a man who I worked on the 48 hour film festival with last year, and after working with him as an editor and him seeing my skills; he kept his eyes open for potential work for me. When he found another job for me, he put me in with touch with the production company and said that I could lend a hand and help them out in the area of editing, and they took me on to help out with editing up old footage.

Now this company is not a traditional production company that you would think of, they don't make commercials or promotional videos, but they create an adult puppet show done in the same manner as Jim Henson's The Muppets, but this show is called Transylvania Television. The link to the show is here, show them some love please by watching a couple of episodes if you have time.

The reason that I put this out there for the world to see is because I wanted to show how networking is powerful. Now think if I hadn't worked with this guy on the 48 hour film festival, I'd never been able to work on this web show that has had some success, and met even better people to work with on other projects.

So when you get the chance to network do it, because it's what best for you.