Choosing Your First Industry Job
Charles and Kath are back to chat about big news in mergers and acquisitions, HD in television, and their thoughts on the smartest first film industry job you could take.\n\nIn this episode, we talk about\u2026\n\nHBO Max is getting merged with Discovery - which is exciting for filmmakers because whatever name it ends up with, it will have a much bigger documentary platform.\n\nThe nature of mergers and acquisitions and how some film studios and platforms \u201cmarry\u201d and \u201cdivorce\u201d partners quite frequently.\n\nLessons for filmmakers in the story of how the HBO Max merger happened and why friendships are complicated in this industry.\n\nHow Amazon is in talks to buy MGM.\n\nThe lessons filmmakers can take about their relationships to intellectual property from Amazon potentially buying MGM.\n\nNo one starts out in their dream job, but you can be strategic about your early career jobs.\xa0\n\nBoth Kath and Charles\u2019s early-career jobs and how they got where they are today, plus things they wish they had done differently in retrospect.\n\nHow networking has evolved from the days when Charles cold-faxed hundreds of companies to today, where social media lets you gently remind people that you exist.\n\nPros and cons of being a script reader as an early career job.\n\nResources for finding jobs so you know where to apply.\n\nHow broadcast television moves much slower than other technologies, because moving to film in HD is a huge infrastructural change.\n\nWhy TV companies have little incentive to make that big of an investment unless there's a huge push from consumers.\n\nVarious factors that can affect the appearance of resolution of 4k and 8k streaming.\n\n\nLinks to Resources:\nWomen of Color Unite\xa0\nProduction Weekly\nCharles Haine: http://www.charleshaine.com/\xa0\n\nCharles\u2019 Webseries: Salty Pirate\n\nKath Tolentino: https://katherinetolentino.com/\xa0\n\nKath\u2019s production company: https://www.borderwoman.pictures/\xa0\n\nYou can find everything we spoke about today and more here: https://nofilmschool.com/. Please like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and check us out on Instagram!\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices