I graduated (officially) in May 2021, during the pandemic. Our ceremony was in August. During that time, I had LOTS of interviews, but because of the pandemic, things had slowed down at most of the production offices and studios. But I kept in contact with my internship contacts, and I actually worked during my second year of school for ViacomCBS. So I kept in touch with them too. But October, about two months after my graduation ceremony and five after my degree was conferred, I got hired at Warner Bros. TV.
Nice. What do you do for them currently? How well do you think Chapman prepared you?
I’m an office production assistant in main production. I’m a part of a three person pod: the VP, production coordinator, and me. Each exec is assigned shows that they oversee. Mine currently has five. So we are responsible for setting up writers rooms, overseeing budgets and schedules, and keeping track of all production documents. Once production is wrapped, the show moves on to post (where another exec will oversee that process) and we wrap all of the main production elements.
