Working Together
It is possible for the crew to get along.
Locations and Set PAs
In case you don’t read the comments, I thought it best to reprint Nathan’s comment on my previous post: Location Managers (and ALM’s) never hire the Set P.A.s. Anywhere. (I’m an East Coast Location Manager — trust me on this one.) Locations will hire Locations P.A.s, but their job is different from Set P.A.’s Example: Locations P.A.s don’t do […]
Addressing Multiple People
Chris writes: From what I’ve gathered while reading archives, an office PA job is something you work your way up to, after starting in the trenches as a set PA. Not really. I tease the set PAs, but we’re really in a parallel position. They’re not trying to work their way up into my job, […]
Clean Up
After you’ve been in the Industry long enough, it’s hard to watch good television without thinking about how hard it must’ve been to make. Take this week’s episode of Community. The scope of the show is usually fairly limited, with a couple of standing sets and some location shooting at Los Angeles City College. But […]
Someone Actually Likes PA Bootcamp
Regular readers know I have a spotty history with PA Bootcamp [sic]. It was fun baiting them for a while, but it got to be repetitive and dull. I still get emails asking about the service pretty regularly, and I just refer them to my comments section. Just today, though, I got an incoming link from […]
The Sincerest Form of Flattery…
And here I thought I was the big PA in the blogging world. Turns out, according to The Hollywood Temp Diaries, I’m “an imitator.” Nevermind that I started my blog only two weeks after TempX did, nor that I’ve never heard of The Hollywood Temp Diaries until I got linked to it last week. After […]
No Lions
rather pathetic comments: great example here people. if you work long enough as a PA, you will hate life. please please please take this blog with a grain of salt. A few years ago, the Internet went down in my dorm. Everyone got super annoyed. What’s going on? Who are the morons running this place? […]
Voice Recognition
Do you know who this is?
Cover Letter
Bryan writes in: I have been out of work since December and I am dying to get back to work. I read what you had to say about cover letters and it makes sense but I am having a difficult time simplifying it. I have been sending out resumes like a mad man and I […]
The Prevalence of Asshole ADs
Anonymous Base Camp PA writes… Well, actually, first let me explain what “base camp” is, for those who may not know. You ever see a usually-empty parking lot full with unlabeled white semi-trucks and trailers? That’s base camp. It’s where the physical production is based, specifically the AD trailer. Even if you’re shooting on stage […]
NYC Vs. Los Angeles
First off, I’d like to congratulate friend-of-the-blog Elana on her newborn. You can read all about the birth/near-death here. Also, if you haven’t read her posts “Life of a Pseudo-Writer” and “Life of a Pseudo-Writer II,” you should. On to PA business. Tom writes: I have made the switch from being a stagehand to being […]
In Addition
Andrew writes in: My fiance recently fell into a PA position and landed a couple days on a movie. After day two/three she was told they had enough PA’s for the next day and they would call her. It has been a few days and no word back yet. A family member of mine works […]