I started work at The Weinstein Company on monday morning, bright and early at nine am...
On monday I got introduced to the people I'd be working with in the production department (2 other interns and producers' assistants), and was walked through my basic duties by a fellow intern.
As an unpaid intern my jobs thus far are:
-getting coffee/breakfast/lunch/cigarettes/snacks
-making copies of scripts and magazine articles
-sending mail and delivering it
-answering phones while assistants are busy
The fact of the matter is, that in order to get the good jobs (i.e. first-hand script readings, coverages, calls to execs, etc...) I have to prove how well I can work--even if it is the grunt work.
On the upside, I've been able to read ten scripts in the past two days during the down time
I'm hoping to do some coverages tomorrow, so the entry will be a little more interesting
- Sam
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They really ask you to buy their cigarettes? That's surprising.
Are you able to speak with others about the scripts you read? I found the hardest part of doing coverage when I was at Good Machine was that no one else had read it, so I had to rely on what I already knew about writing and narrative rather than being able to develop my skills as an analyst.
They addressed this somewhat by asking everyone to do a mock coverage of the same script, and then the development head gave us all notes on how we could improve.
yeah, the first week for interns is basically hell. but it's getting better...there are new interns coming on monday.
For the most part, everybody reads the good scripts at some point or another. The scripts I cover are a different matter, because I'm usually the first to read them...
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