Silence means work!

(I actually started writing this post way before Christmas. This is how bad it’s got).

I haven’t been writing here for more than a month now. It’s not because I can’t be bothered. On the contrary – I achieved a first goal of that blog. I am doing stuff and I simply do not have time to write here! It also looks like this blog helped me to push, push and eventually get somewhere (it’s still a beginning of the whole journey though).

I am working as an editor and assistant manager now for online magazine publishing mostly for American and British market. That means I work in English and I am very happy that even back home I can still have a live contact with the language I actually love! (true story bro). Obviously I am doing stuff I did not plan for myself, but it looks like I can handle my duties pretty ok. Also, I can use those freshly acquired marketing and bussines skills in my film career. It’s been already several years when I realize that film is a first of all a big business and to be able to work and create we need to bear it in mind. Promotion and sales have the same rules in all the industries and what I have learnt and I will learn, I can easily use while putting my first feature budget together. If there will be no producer wanting to work with me (one day, one day). I also discovered, again, pretty old truth that the key is to get to the right people. Scouting/hunting  skills are extremely necessary when you’re starting up in the media industry.

Simultaneously to my new job I am putting a new film project together. I want to apply for a budget for a short film through one of our national Institution supporting beginners. First of all I had to create a proposal of my crew, which would of course contain only professionals. Now, good luck with that you can say. Thankfully I know how to make a good use out of social media and thankfully the “big names” are usually kind enough to answer your fb or linkedin message – mostly positively! So now, I am re-writing a script with “a big name” trying to get her to eventually find a slot in her tight schedule for our promised meeting. It is not easy, she just got back from India.

There are obviously three more things going, like the projects that were born as a result of a writing course I attended. And some copywriting freelance work (slowly, but I am getting some!).

The summer is coming though – time to look for some summer internship. Can’t help it, just like to be busy!