[Andrea Angelini]

The thing is that I don’t feel ready for a big project, I made a short documentary on a dam for the university past year (if you like you can have a look here

It was exiting asking the questions and shoot around the county but I felt I needed more experience before doing something more important by myself.
The result as you will see is quite amateurish.

I would like to work some more time in a professional environment,in London as I said it was useful but more or less always the same.
I was an assistant but I didn’t learn that much how to shoot, when we were on a shoot I was carrying, packing and unpacking stuff all the time, and anyway corporate shoots can’t be really creative. Also often I didn’t follow the cutaways because I was packing the lights.

So some more practise, in the US if I can, or even in Italy in the worse case, could be useful to gain some knowledge.

[Andrea Angelini]

Thanks Mark for your suggestions, I appreciate.

What you explained could be a very interesting job, but if I can I would like to do another work experience abroad before facing the work market.
I would like to live for a period (4/6 months)in the US working in TV or video production, to improve my CV, my language skills and my knowledge.
After that I’ll try to find my way in this difficult industry, somewhere.

I’m a bit concerned about finding an internship for the next spring, I need some time to get the documents and the visa ready, but it looks like the companies don’t want to make planning in advance, maybe because of the unstable situation.

[Andrea Angelini]

Thank you very much for your help, guys.

I think I prefer the camera department, but I would like to do some training in both TV studio and outside. This is mainly because if I can’t find something in the US and I have to come back to Italy there is no way to find a job in the cinema industry, seeing that there isn’t a significant production in Italy. So I would have to try television or video production.

I did some research but it’s not so easy to find a comprehensive cinema/tv course at affordable costs. If you mean short workshops I agree that it’is easier, but in that case there is a big problem with the visa.

Actually I thought about it and I read a lot of opinions on the internet and I’m not so sure that a course would be the best solution: you pay plenty of money and you are never certain if it’s worth for your career.

On the other side I did an internship in London, I’m a bit disappointed about it because it was in a very small corporate videos company with not a lot to do.
It was still useful, but I would like to find a better internship somewhere in the US, maybe in a network or in a big video production company.
The networks often ask you to use the internship as a college credit, and that’s could be an issue for me.

Mark, thanks for your tip regarding community cables, it could be a possibility, i’m having a look.

About the equipment I was thinking about a Canon 550d or Lumix GH1 (not a lot more expensive than an Iphone here in Italy), they are not really easy to use as work cameras (audio, jelly and rigs issues) but it would be good to experiment with a more cinematic image than the flat look of amateur or entry-level pro cameras.