The Summer Blues
Seeing as this is a place for film students I'm going to assume you are, or about to go on summer break. That being assumed, time to move on. Are you wondering what you should be doing this summer? Getting bored? Wishing you were back in school? Working on film sets? Well, I am doing all of these and more. Instead of wondering these things we should be preparing for next semester, and beyond. How do we do this? Simple.
There are a number of things you could be doing this summer. Numero uno should be to set up a resume, or update yours, plain and simple. Some other things you could be doing are... work on your reel, everyone should have one, IMO. Find a good book on your chosen discipline and READ IT!!! No point in spending the money on a book if your not going to read it. Start work on a personal site. This one is not so simple, but seeing as the web is a place you can use to market yourself, you should do so. There are plenty of places to start, such as Blogger, WordPress.com, Tumblr, etc. There are as many places to start a personal site as there are facebook clones, so do some research and pick one. How about looking for an internship? One day your going to graduate, and when that day comes your going to need a job. An internship can be a good place to start that job search, and to see the ins and outs of the day to day stuff. You could also start day playing as a grip, or PA. Places like Mandy.com, or LA411 are great places to get contact info, and to look at job listings.
As you can see there are a lot of different things to beat the summer boredom that can creep up. The point is. In this industry if you get complacent it will pass you up. You MUST be like a shark, always swimming never stopping.
If you know of any other ideas to kill time till school starts back up share them in the comments.