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A Guide to Social Media From Being on the Low Rung of the Film Business

Posted on: Friday, 29 May 2009, 11:01 CDT

Christopher Ming Ryan (The Way We Watch) explains that everything he has learned about Social Networking sites like Twitter and Facebook and creating his own blog, he learned while working as a production assistant in the film business.

NEW YORK, May 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Christopher Ming Ryan, an executive producer of internal and external video marketing communications for Wheelhouse Communications, published a feature that explains the basics of how to behave on social network sites

Starting at the bottom in Television or Film means being a Production Assistant (better known as a PA). PA's are asked to set up lunch, block off shooting areas known as "lock downs," sleep in cars overnight so that nobody will park on the street where a production vehicle has to go the next day.

Not the most glamorous job in the world.

But just like the star of the movie, the producer, the set decorator, the PA's ultimate job is to get another PA job on a film when their current job ends.

There are many parallels to starting out in social media with starting out in Film and TV as a Production Assistant.

Ryan's post describes the 15 ways Production Assistants get ahead in the movie business and applies those 15 ways to getting ahead in social media.

See the feature here: http://christophermingryan.typepad.com/thewaywewatch/2009/03/all-i-really-know-about-social-media.html.

SOURCE The Way We Watch

Source: PR Newswire

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