What the hell am I going to do with a Film Degree?!

Dear potential employer who has just googled my name,

I did just google myself to see if this blog came up, but it doesn't for a few pages. But who knows in a few days this could be quite popular due to the vast unemployment of Graduates these days.

You may be wondering why zombie appears so much in my name over the Internet, well potential employer I will tell you. It all started in my first year of university. We had to make a one minute film with no camera movement, no sound, no editing. So I decided to place my camera in the fridge and film people opening the door and eating/drinking something. And then I came up to the fridge and bit a chunk out of an arm. It was a very nice "jack in the box", as scriptwriting terminology calls it, piece. This and my love of horror films (and the fact there where another two Lucy's in the class) gave me my name.

I won't bore you with the "I am very hard working" etc etc (but I am) as I'm sure you read this on nearly every CV you read. Instead I will put my skills in situ. As part of my degree I had to write an interview with someone in the industry. I managed to contact a part owner of a big SFX studio in America. This interview is one of only a handful he has every done/ will find. This shows I can contact and get what I want from people I don't necessarily know.

I have produced a short film, and done the makeup for it. I can multitask, organises people and keep to a budget and a schedule.

I have been an Assistant Director on a film where I was doing makeup, once again multitasking. I can also turn up and solve problems and be incredible helpful. Once again keeping people on schedule.

So potential employer here are just some of the skills I possess. I hope you enjoyed this extra titbits of information, although I may have said some of this in my covering letter.

Just so you know, if you do employ me this will not be the end of my exciting blog. It will merely take another route and show others their Film Degree was not a waste of three years of their life.

Best Regards,

Lucy Pullinger