The 'Moving Image' Industry | General | .....

I've looked at some of the jobs involved when working on a project, but i want understand the process of how things work, like, is it all done under one roof or are people and companies employed to do certain bits in the project? For bigger projects is it different?

I've emailed a studio called firestep who are based in Manchester, they did a television series which was a spin off to the doctor who series called 'Doctor Who - The Infinite Quest', so hopefully they will get back to me with some answers of how they work etc (they've got back to me in the past about work experience, but with no luck, but at least they got back to me which I thought was really nice of them)

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Whilst waiting to hear from firestep i'll talk about someone...

Joanna Quinn is a pretty well known animator who's debut film 'Girls Night Out', made during university but not finished untill she had graduated and moved to Cardiff, racked up 3 awards at the Annecy film/ animation festival in 1987.

Since then she carry's on doing short films and also has a studio called Beryl Productions which works on adverts and also the short films. One advert which i've seen before which Beryl Productions did was the Charmin Adverts with the bear who whips his ares on the toilet paper, you know the one...

Joanna found her place in the world of moving image from having a very strong short film, with a unique style and character called Beryl (her production company has the same name if you've noticed) and from that kept on making short films, entering them into festivals and also started up a company to make adverts which brings in the money.
Here's a day in the life of Joanna Quinn...




I don't think you can plan to what Joanna Quinn did, you can't be sure your short film will be a big success and that clients will be wanting your style for adverts. But I suppose that's what freelancers do. Freelancers get there name out there and wait for clients to want their style then build up a client base where you always have steady work, although steady work isn't really a known work in a freelancers dictionary!

Working for your self, for me, isn't what i would like to do, its too free. I would rather at this moment in time, work for a company and gradually gain more skills and move up...