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Production Assistants

Experience, Skills, and Personality Traits

No experience is needed to work as a production assistant, but those with prior work experience will increase their chances of landing a job, getting promoted, and possibly earning higher pay.

Production assistants need agreeable personalities and willingness to follow instructions and perform simple tasks. You need to catch on quickly to the things you are taught. Organizational skills will help you keep track of the many different aspects of a production. Great ambition and dedication are very important, as getting paying jobs on a production will require persistence. Also, you will not get a great deal of recognition for your hours of work, so you need a sense of purpose and an understanding that you are "paying your dues." A love of movies, video, and television and a fascination with the industry, particularly an interest in the technical aspects of filmmaking, will help you keep focused. Though you need an outgoing personality for making connections on a production, you should be capable of sitting quietly on the sidelines when not needed.

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