What Does Everyone Do?
Here’s a quick plug that nobody’s paying me for. (Unlike The Hollywood Survival Guide, which pays me cold, hard PayPal credits every time one of my readers buys one. So, please do; hosting this website isn’t free!) Alas, no one is paying me to plug Writing Movies for Fun and Profit, by Robert Ben Garant and […]
Foreign Experience
Max writes: I work as an office PA in Malta, which has a small but steadily growing film industry largely based on foreign films shooting here rather than our own local production. We have all manner of shoots here from music videos and small commercials to high-budget, high-profile American films and TV, and everyone pretty […]
Do I Stand a Chance?
Miruna writes: In november I’ve quit my job… The main reason I’ve quit my last job is that I desperately want to go back and work in the movie industry, it’s the perfect work place for me, I love it, I love everything about it. The thing is, I would love to work for real movies, […]
Making the Transition From Theatre to Film
K writes: I am a theatrical PA and have been for the past several years and have a degree in stage management…but I’m looking to leave the theatrical world behind and move into the film world. I feel like I’m running into constant roadblocks due to my entire (ENTIRE) resume being theatre related and it […]
August 16 Job List
I hope you like a new UTA joblist, because it’s on TAPA, now.
The Future is Now
Amy writes: How long do you have to be a private assistant until you get a job in a TV show or a movie ? Do you get to talk or know the actors and actresses ? And how hard is it to get that job?… I am not even done with school yet but […]
August 11 Job List
Guess who has a new UTA Joblist! That’s right, TAPA! Now, you do, too.
Applying to be a Writer’s PA
J asks: I called up some shows a couple weeks back and asked if they were hiring, and of course they were all staffed up, but said I could fax a resume that they’d “keep on file”. Now I know you’ve written that if you want to be an Office PA you should contact the […]
Not Enough to Do
How are you going to fill your time in the production office?
Stop Calling the Production Company
Matt writes: Hi how are you…i’m in search for over 2 years now for an PA job on a decent TV Drama or Movie but i cant get anywhere… i tried to call some prodcution companys for th shows but i always got slammed from there assistants like we are not hiring right now etc… […]
Boss Database
In honor of a movie I have absolutely no intention of seeing, I’d like to create a database of bosses. Similar to RateMyProfessors.com, without the cartoony graphics. Of course, the criteria for a good boss are different than for a good professor. (Except for hotness; we’ll leave that column.) Truth be told, I have a had time […]
Ads?
Some of you may have noticed, advertisements have started popping up on the TAPA blog. I resisted it for a long time, largely because I didn’t want to think of this site as a job. That being said, I’m broke, so I’m selling out. 🙂 I’ve put one adsense box on the main page, and […]