Production/Editing/Shooting work in Austin Texas

[robmneilson]

hey there,


So I've been living in NYC for the last decade, but I'm thinking about making a move to Austin Texas in a year or two (since living costs there are nothing compared to NYC)....but after looking on Mandy.com I'm a bit scared on the availability of jobs down there.

Right now I'm working as a video editor/shooter for a website, while making a feature on the side...I'm hoping I will be able to continue doing more of the same down in Austin.

Anyone living there have any advice for me?

 

[grinner]

just hit the TAFTP hard and often.
It's a hard market now but not any harder than the rest of the markets out there.
It's all saturated and tight. Things will get far worse before they get any better.

 

[milksac]

Here's the competition

The Department of Radio-Television-Film at The University of Texas at Austin offers a broad range of courses in the media arts leading to the Bachelor of Science, Master of Fine Arts, Master's and Ph.D. degrees. Consistently ranked as one of the top 10 programs in the country, it is one of the few departments offering degrees in both practical and theoretical areas -- i.e., in both media production and media studies.

There are currently approximately 900 undergraduate students, 160 total graduate students in the Department. There are 28 full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty, with approximately 25 part-time adjunct faculty hired each semester.

source: http://rtf.utexas.edu/about/index.htm