There have been some humorous postings on the Austin Craiglist recently. Well, humorous and/or infuriating for anyone who actually works in the business. It all started with this post:
INTERNS Nov. 3-18 (Austin, TX)
**These positions are intern positions. Compensation includes a gas stipend of $50, meals, credit, and copy. Students, recent graduates, or newbies with good attitude are strongly encouraged to apply. We are willing to work with schedules, as well.
Independent Feature is now accepting resumes/inquiries for the following intern positions:
The post then goes on to list positions that, on any other film, would be considered principal crew that clearly needs to be paid for this work.
The post sparked quite a few response posts.
Are you kidding me? Those are not intern positions, those are jobs. You calling them “interns” to imply that these positions shouldn’t be paid is pretty friggin pathetic. That’s a lot of non paying people your looking to add to your unpaid crew there buddy. Get a clue. Either pay your help or get out of the business.
You might also want to include why the budget is so low, and why i should waste my time working for free.
Considering their production is coming from Canada and their looneys are worth more here, this is total BS!
This is my favorite:
Interns Re:visited - (The bright lights)
What? No DP intern? No Producer intern? Not even a leading role intern?
Hopefully at least a studio mogul intern! Sheesh!!
I don’t mind working for free, if it’s a project where I feel like I am appreciated, if I can be proud of the final product, and if it will lead to future opportunities. If it’s something like this, count me out.