"So ...what do u actually do ?"

I've had a few people ask me what I actually do now .... so here's the deal. I left the corporate world of Vodafone last year and studied for a year at South Seas Film and Television School (www.southseas.co.nz) ... majored in Production, Assistant Directing and Floor Managing, and minored in Presenting and Acting. Now I kind of have 4 jobs ... 3 different industries. I'll break it down. If any of it is confusing just ask :-)

1: I'm a production manager for Certain Scenes Productions Limited. (we've just had a feature film in the NZ Intl Film Festival called "Tyrannical Love" ... look out for more to come!)

2: I work freelance in the film and tv industry ... doin whatever it takes to get noticed and work my way up to doing production and assistant directing roles. Recent work includes:
** Set co-ordinator for NZ feature film "The Magician",
** Art Dept for NZ feature film "Tyrannical Love",
** Police Ten7 (I'm a consent former, so I get to chase the cops, get the story, talk to the offenders, victims, etc and get consent forms signed to put them on tv... I love it! hehe),
** I was an audition assistant for NZ Idol2,
** and I also do stuff like production running for music videos, production assist for a feature film funding pilot, cabling for the league awards, production manager for a short film "solicited sin", and heaps more.
** I also do extras/atmosphere work for commercials and music videos occasionally (you know those random people in the background with non-speaking roles, yeah thats me, hehe)

3: I work for 2 diff promotions companies as a casual worker occasionally. That basically involves handing out free stuff. They do promotions like V, Lucid Magazine, H2go, advertising for bars, expo type events, etc.

4: I work part time/casual at First Mobile selling mobile phones in between other work to pay bills. Its my job where if I get film work I can tell my boss I'm not available to be rostered, and if they have times where they need me here full time, I help out as best I can. Its a good little arrangement.

So there it is ... you can email me if you want to know more :-) But yeah lots has changed in the last couple of years, so for some of you this is just an update, and for others you're going "what? did I go to the right website? Is this Mary?".

Speaking of work, I'd better get back to it :-)