Recently within the past few months I haven't been happy with the work I was doing during my final term at university. I was to make layouts and animate and do many creative tasks for the student films I was working on, but I wasn't enjoying it anymore. Making animation didn't excite me the way it used to, thus my work was looking sloppy. I noticed how my peers still loved doing what they were doing but I wasn't. It came to my attention that maybe creating animation wasn't for me anymore.
Not to say I didn't love animation anymore! But I believed that I could be more suited for another role whilst staying in the same industry. I knew what my strengths were; I'm very organised. I love to plan and schedule things and I don't mind tidying. I'm also quick to learn and can handle things under pressure (except for the odd breakdown which everybody gets at some points during their life). I also knew a lot about media and marketing, not from education but from observing it in real life, it all made sense to me!
Because of this I considered a career assisting in distribution and exhibition. I love the idea of organising events and marketing schemes to help the public notice wonderfully made films which I believe deserve attention. Although I am still a creative person, making art became something I wanted to make a hobby out of whilst I wanted my professional work to be to do with something I knew I was good at.
This lead me to become a production assistant for Swamp Cheese. For the moment I am helping the producer find film festivals and making a big list of them, ready to apply to them when we can. I am still helping the student films I am on with production since I know they need people to do as much work as they can for them, but it feels amazing to know I also have a job that's connected to what I really want to do!
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