Looking for a new place to live.

Good evening Ladies and Gents,

Sorry for ressurecting such an old thread, but almost half a year has passed and I'm no where closer to getting to Wilmington.

The reason I bring this up again is probably more looking for an emotional boost than anything. I've applied to every video-related position that comes up in that area of NC and I've got nada. I realize that the prospect of hiring someone that's halfway across the country probably isn't too appealing for most people. So for those of you who have moved long distances before, how did you do it? Just keep sending that resume and waiting? Is there a trick? The farthest I've ever moved in my life is 10 miles south, so I'm reallly clueless.

Thanks.

Chris (stuck in Springfield)
 
I've moved too many times. Acros countries, borders and continents. It's alwasy exciting and unnerving and never totally easy. But so far, always worth it. You gotta just go for it. Time to move more than 10 miles! Heck, you can always move back. And don't you find most jobs are through word of mouth/contacts? Applying for jobs via resume or remote is never going to compete with the guy who knows a guy who lives down the street. Count on taking 12 months to settle in and make your contacts. If the economy is okay in the area you're going to, you could always take some other job for a couple months to help with expenses until you start getting contacts. I think it's especially worth the move if you're going to a film centre with more going on than Springfield, cuz you clearly know your Avid! Within a year you'll have way more work than you ever had in Springfield I bet.
 
I follow what you're saying, and I don't disagree, but I've got a wife and two kids who look to me to eat, and moving that far without a gaurenteed income might be asking them to take too much of a risk ... I don't know ... things to ponder, I guess ...

Thanks for chiming in with your experience, Sean.
 
Yeah, bein the dad makes it trickier you're right. What if you picked a place and made short forays to the location. Say you chose Wilmington. Get a room in somebody's house for cheap and just spend a month there scouting and interviewing and seeing if you can drum up a contract worth moving for. Being apart from family would be the hard part. Do you work full time as it is, or are you a contrct/freelance worker. If you're freelance, you could use one of those stints between jobs to go hang out in the new city. Not easy, I agree. But it could be really worth it. Your wife and kids will get the benefit of a new adventure in a new city too.
 
Oh believe me, it's the adventure for the wife that prompted this whole thing. :)

I do work full time right now, otherwise your suggestion about going myself would have been a great one. The most I could manage away from Springfield without cutting some major ties would be 2 weeks. Nothing like pressure I guess. :)
 
Or how about you save some $$$ for awhile, then move? That way, you'll have money to fall back on while you look around.

I may know of a position at a college in Massachusetts. They may be looking for someone to run their video department - there's an Avid.

And I know people who know people in Branson, if you're interested.

A man of your caliber should have no problem finding a job.
 
John_Hudson said:
You could'nt pay me enough cash to live in L.A. and So-Cal's mystique has long faded.
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i just secured a $375,000 budget with a 40% profit margin to produce a documentary over the next 6 months. not sure i'd have the same opportunities if i'd stayed back in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. so, i suppose what i'm saying is they do pay me enough to live in L.A.

one day i hope to move to europe or australia so i can live out my life raising a family and making films ala kubrick.
 
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Or how about you save some $$$ for awhile, then move? That way, you'll have money to fall back on while you look around.
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Yeah, unless something miraculous happens I guess that's pretty much the plan. It's just slow, and I am, by nature, impatient. :Drogar-BigGrin(DBG)

And I know people who know people in Branson, if you're interested.
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Hey, never turn your back to an opportunity. I'll PM you. :thumbsup:

A man of your caliber should have no problem finding a job.
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Gee. Thanks for the compliment. Now if only you ran a well-paying post house in Wilmington, NC. :)
 
I wonder if one result of the digital revolution will be the end of LA as the centre for all things film. As in music, the hold the big studios have on filmmaking is loosening...and so it is becoming less relevant to be in LA to make films. Or maybe it's too entrenched as the mecca to change. But I think it will be interesting to see how the new technologies shift the hot spots for filmmaking. I mean, filmmakers start out as poor artists...and it's not very easy to be a poor artist in a city as expensive as LA. Filmmakers might have a lot more choices about where to move maybe?
 
Northa carolina is nice. But Raleigh is kinda crap. Chapel hill/carboro is prettier.

Plus Barry's NC incentives :)

My cousins live there. I like it. i visit a couple times a year. The weather isnt too bad during the winter, but its humid like whoa during the summer.
 
sean90291 said:
I wonder if one result of the digital revolution will be the end of LA as the centre for all things film. As in music, the hold the big studios have on filmmaking is loosening...and so it is becoming less relevant to be in LA to make films. Or maybe it's too entrenched as the mecca to change. But I think it will be interesting to see how the new technologies shift the hot spots for filmmaking. I mean, filmmakers start out as poor artists...and it's not very easy to be a poor artist in a city as expensive as LA. Filmmakers might have a lot more choices about where to move maybe?
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Honestly, I think that we'll see a decentralization of filmmaking in our lifetimes. We already see it to some extent. Rodriguez has his main shop setup in Texas. Lucas has his main shop set up in ... er ... Lucasville or something like that. Making a Hollywood film will probably require a trip to LA for a long time to come, but if you play your cards right you can make a film anywhere you want even today. The real deal-breaker is going to be digital distribution. If we can get rid of film, then anyone with theatrical contacts can become a distribution company and I think a lot of people will be like "I don't need LA."

Just my speculation, but I think I'm on to something. :)
 
SoCal only became the place because of slow lenses.

But enough people are getting sick of it for it to changes...sooner rather than later.
 
krestofre said:
The real deal-breaker is going to be digital distribution. If we can get rid of film, then anyone with theatrical contacts can become a distribution company and I think a lot of people will be like "I don't need LA."

Just my speculation, but I think I'm on to something. :)
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I think you're definitely onto something. Because we ARE going to get rid of film. Film's days are seriously numbered. Music is already being self-distributed by recording artists and they're starting to make big money. Maybe a country artist doesn't need to go to Nashville anymore. And maybe a filmmaker doesn't need to go to LA . Hey, if you guys saw BUbble, I thought the performances Soderbergh got out of threee non-actors who lived in the small town he shot in was inspiring. Theoretically, we can all find actors anywhere and make films where we want. Not M:I:3...but we can make good films nonetheless. And so that I don't sideline Krestofre's thread completely...it's just another case for why Krestofre should make the move!
 
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