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A friend of mine once lived with two roommates in a two bedroom apartment. He slept in the hallway. There are unconventional solutions if you want them. I also saw houses where people slept 3 or 4 to a room. Single mattresses against each of the 4 walls and nothing else really. Another friend managed an apartment complex in exchange for a free apartment.
A friend of mine once lived with two roommates in a two bedroom apartment. He slept in the hallway. There are unconventional solutions if you want them. I also saw houses where people slept 3 or 4 to a room. Single mattresses against each of the 4 walls and nothing else really. Another friend managed an apartment complex in exchange for a free apartment.
Yes, when I lived in London I shared a one bedroom with a roommate. I had the living room and she was in the bedroom. Most of the people I knew there had more people in the apartment than bedrooms- they’d converted dining areas to bedrooms or other living space to bedrooms. I had one friend in Manhattan I visited who had 4 people in a 2-bedroom. One other friend who moved to NYC really wanted to live alone, but she had a low wage job and was commuting an hour from a far-flung location in Brooklyn or Queens to someplace nearer to Manhattan in Brooklyn or Queens. She told me the commute each way took an hour, but she could not afford to live near her work.
They share 5 people to a 1BR apartment. Your bed is in the closet. Another's bed is in the bathroom. A third's bed is in the kitchen. The other two beds split the tiny bedroom.
They sleep in the car. Shower in the gym (or employer). Eat free food the employer provides.
Another problem: If you take a Mcjob, that experience does not count toward a career in moviemaking. So you'll always be the guy who has zero experience (and treated that way).
Oh but won't the idea be that I would attempt to get experience working on sets, while working a paying job?
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The reality is that many people in show business have been in it since they were children. Usually the start out as actors and then may go on to other areas of the business. By the time they are 18, they have years of experience and connections. Others come from wealthy families and also have those connections.
Your best bet is to go to a reputable college that offers film and media majors. While in school, you get involved in any local film and acting productions and ask to assist your professors or ask them if they know of anyone in the business who may need an intern. Most of this work will be unpaid but at least you are work towards a degree and making connections and you can also pick up a minor so you can have other skills to fall back on.
Oh okay, but I would still have to do this in a city like Vancouver though, right? If I go to college too, then that is less time that I will be able to work though as well.
The most expensive housing I ever paid for in my life, by the square foot, was a college dorm room! Tiny, shared with a stranger, communal bathroom, no kitchen. Then I moved fairly far off campus to a communal house in a pretty bad inner city slum area - one person/bedroom, 6 people sharing 2 bathrooms, plus a living room and a dining room and a kitchen. After that a 3 bedroom apartment, still in a slum area, shared with two others.
If I had been living in NYC or Boston or San Francisco, I probably would have been living three people to a two bedroom apartment, with most of the living room walled off to make a third bedroom. I might even have been living in a shared bedroom, like back in college.
My point is, you do what you have to get what you want. And in this case, if what you really want is only obtainable in a high cost of living city, you do what you need to, to keep your living expenses as low as possible.
Yeah, get a job that includes tips. Valets make good tips, normally - the guys who park people's cars. When I worked at a casino, the word was the valets made more than the dealers. By the way, casinos are pretty good places to work. Usually have flexible schedules, pay a decent wage and a lot of the jobs include tips and they'll let you change jobs and offer training. When I worked at one, I was first a slots cashier, then worked in the main cage (bank), then was an operator working the grave shift answering the phone.
Oh okay. I'm in my 30s. I am heavily considering making a movie, but I was told that my money is better spent learning under pros.
However, whenever a movie is being shot, and I apply saying I will do whatever they want on set and just want to learn and gain experience, they often say they will get back to me, when shooting starts about it, but then they never do. I will send emails just to see but they don't email me back until after production is wrapped.
They say that they bot so busy that they totally forgot to email me back about it, and that's understandable, since it can be a really busy process, and you are not going to think of getting back to inviting everyone to the sets who want to learn.
So if I were to move to Vancouver, I hope it's better there than it is here for that, but I was told by friends that it should be, since it's Vancouver, and a lot movies are made there.
Old Apartment, Public Transportation, judicious usage of utilities, old clothes, few electronics, cooking food in the apartment. Be frugal, one can live anywhere.
This might sound rude but what is your ultimate goal? to become a great moviemaker or to learn the basic & make average movie that is somewhat passable? If you just decided you wanted to get in movies in your 30s, how committed are you to this field? Is it just a phase? How much do you know about this industries?
maybe you can start by learning from your local TV station or a local place somewhere else who makes basic films. See if the passion is still there and then think about moving to a big city. You also have to have roommates in high COL area or lot of family who are your roommates
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