Okay, this is getting ridiculous!

Doc Bernard

Doc Bernard

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[h=2]Set Production Assistant (Intern) (Los Angeles)[/h]
Date: 2011-07-30, 9:49AM PDT
Reply to: gigs-rjuz7-2521257733@craigslist.org [SUP][Errors when replying to ads?][/SUP]
I need intern set PA's for an independent film starting Monday. Duties include walkie distribution, lock-ups, setting background, and helping other departments. Locations are in the LA area and we shoot 12 days from the 1st to 14th.



Please send your availability for the first half of August and a brief description of your experience.



  • Location: Los Angeles
  • it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
  • Compensation: no pay

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A no pay position as an INTERN PA. I think stating no pay at the bottom was clue #1 there was no pay. But let's add to that: intern (clue #2) and it's a PA position on CL (clue #3) "But still tell us your experience."

Won't be long and we will start seeing positions for intern Intern PA, and you must pay to work for the production.
 
The real problem is that his post probably got a lot of desperate replies. I've never personally taken a job like that, but I know that the image painted around working in production has so much glamour that people are willing to really sell themselves short to get their name on something. I don't see that getting better anytime soon. On the plus side, if I tell people they get to intern as a 'filmmaker's assistant' I can find someone to do the laundry and wash the dishes for me.
 
I've literally offered money to people if they'd allow me to do marketing on their film (and have also offered to pick up all the marketing costs) for an Associate Producer credit, and have been denied. It's happened more than once.

I think those people are vastly more in need of a cranium scan than is someone who's willing to gain experience working on a production.
 
Brian_Rice said:
I've literally offered money to people if they'd allow me to do marketing on their film (and have also offered to pick up all the marketing costs) for an Associate Producer credit, and have been denied. It's happened more than once.

I think those people are vastly more in need of a cranium scan than is someone who's willing to gain experience working on a production.
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As one of those people who politely declined your offer, this my friend, is representative of why.
 
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