Second Email Response - Seb Marczewski

Sebastian got back to me earlier today with some very interesting and useful information. As mentioned before, we might need to consider shooting Harry looking at and reading out parts of the emails so that we can include them in the documentary. I can't think of many other ways to do it.

Here is the latest email from Seb:

"Hi Amy,

It appears you have created an interesting and eloquent brief. You have a clear visual style and it seems like you know what you want.

I am working as a freelance camera assistant so I work for various production companies and individuals. My next job coming up this week is for a guy call Simon Woodgate who I met at Pinewood ( he writes music for film and TV as well, he does Postman Pat :) ) who makes promos and he is an freelance cameraman as well.

The short I made was self funded. It required a lot of favours and diligence but it was worth it in the end.

During university I did a lot of favours for local filmmakers in Sheffield. I heard about running jobs that were posted around uni or met people at the showroom and went and worked for them for free. It really is about networking. I got paid a couple of times but it was more of a gesture rather than industry wage. When I returned from travelling I expected to have work from the contacts I had made but they turned out to have nothing for me, no even freebies. I effectively started again.

I started looking on sites like filmcrewpro, mandy, talent circle for film jobs and managed to get a couple in London, they were however, freebies as well. After building up a few more contacts I started to get more jobs and I would get phones calls for work.

Now I will illustrate one labyrinth of a way to get work: The reason I got onto a feature was because I did sound recording for an MA film in May 2009 when I was at uni. But is wasn't as simple as that. The director of that then was making a no -budget short film in October 2009 and she needed another sound person. I agreed but then it turned out that the DOP dropped out so she asked me if I could do it and I said; "Definitely" ( that is the response you have to have for work). After that she moved to London and was producing a short, she needed a camera assistant and I said yes again. It was a good learning curve but more importantly I got friendly with the production staff and after a week I got a phone call from the 2nd AD to see if I wanted to work on a feature in London. I said "Definitely". That is one of the chain of events that created work. And most of them are just as elaborate if not more.

Along the way you meet many people that are in the same boat, that may not be able to help just yet but in the future you could collaborate with them. Its important to have a good attitude, sociable, industrious and to be thick skinned as well. If you have a good positive energy people want to be round you and want to give you work.

I have attached a couple CV's for you to have a look at what I have worked on thus far.

All the best

Seb x"

Seb has attached a few CVs for us but I won't post them on here, I will print a couple of copies off and bring them in on Friday.