You dont always need to rely on your portfolio

Just as the title says is what the moral of this post is. Yes sure portfolios often make the biggest influence of your ability to the employeer, and yes you should try and build up a good deal of work you can showcase when called upon. However its not the only way of inexperienced hopefuls getting  industry work. Now I am by no means an industry professional, heck ive still got one year left of university study to go, but I can tell you that I have managed to get all the industry experience and paid work without ever showing my CV or showreel. Its all down to NETWORKING. Yes you may have heard this time and time again, but seriously, network overload yourself, and you will come across an opportunity, you just need to be willing to recognise it and take it. Any experience is experience, so dont let pride get in the way, if its making coffee for a production manager do it, you never know they may love your coffee making skills, they may even love you, and this could maybe, just maybe lead to them wanting you to stick around. I got my job as I was working in a gym when a small production company came to do a promo video, got talking, and im now camera assisting/operating and editing for them. Its all one big gamble….If its something you really aspire to do then you have nothing to loose, so why not eh? This goes for any jobs, not just in the media industry.

On a funnier note, if I did send my showreel off last year, this is what the employee may have seen…. (remember I am a student) Thanks for reading 😉