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10 years, 7 months ago - jane foster

I'm getting increasingly frustrated in what is the current work place and film landscape we are all trying to carve out a career in. I'm a very well trained and successful writer, and director, and I can produce. However, when looking for commercial jobs I get really cross when so many specify that writers also need to be adept at social media, power point and all sorts of technical stuff that really 'hybridizes' the job of writing - I'm a great pitcher, writer and ideas person, but I'm not a copy editor or a graphics layout artist - so why do so many companies think this? Ditto Directing, lots of media companies also expect a director to both edit and be a black belt in camera work. This demeans the noble art of editing and camera work. Ok, I get it for really low budget stuff, but the reason standards are slipping so LOW is because people are expected to carry out too wide a set of skills! It's enough that film makers choose one other skill, like writer director, or camera/director, or director/editor, but for media companies to expect all disciplines is simply stupid and a recipe for all the boring crap already out there on the internet! Any film, with notable exceptions should be a collaboration, and it takes more than one person! anyone else out there fed up of being all singing all dancing?