Design + Video-Making Career?

p_anotherguy

My friend would like to pursue her career in video-making. She has two years' experience, but she still feels unsure about it. Do you think this sector still has a future, or could it be heavily impacted by AI?

She would also like to learn some additional skills that could be useful alongside video-making. Do you have any suggestions? She doesn’t like writing, so she was thinking about design.

MyRealNameToo

All creative industries are exceptionally competitive and vastly more wannabes than successfully people. 

What is her "2 years experience"? 

"Video making" can be a one man band doing everything, think wedding videographer, but more commonly its split across different people as those operating the camera is a different person to the one using Premier Pro to edit the footage or the one using After Effects for the special effects 

I know a couple of successful freelancers but also know three who graduate from uni with 2.1 or 1st degrees in this sort of space and all of them plus many of their class mates are still working in pubs or call centres etc. 

p_anotherguy

MyRealNameToo said:

All creative industries are exceptionally competitive and vastly more wannabes than successfully people. 

What is her "2 years experience"? 

"Video making" can be a one man band doing everything, think wedding videographer, but more commonly its split across different people as those operating the camera is a different person to the one using Premier Pro to edit the footage or the one using After Effects for the special effects 

I know a couple of successful freelancers but also know three who graduate from uni with 2.1 or 1st degrees in this sort of space and all of them plus many of their class mates are still working in pubs or call centres etc. 

She worked for a big company that sells audio equipment and music instruments. She mostly recorded videos to show their products, so it was pretty much product-based. The videos were uploaded on social media channels like YouTube or Instagram. She also took care of writing the posts. However, she told me she didn't enjoy the writing part.

She has never done freelancing.

p_anotherguy

She also cut the video, so I guess she was doing a bit of everything. For this reason, she feels like she doesn't have much experience. However, I don't think she should start from an internship position, as she already has some experience

Marcon

p_anotherguy said:

She also cut the video, so I guess she was doing a bit of everything. For this reason, she feels like she doesn't have much experience. However, I don't think she should start from an internship position, as she already has some experience

Any reason she can't post here herself? Makes it a lot easier to ask questions when the individual concerned can answer for themself.

Two years experience isn't much to build a career on, especially in a massively competitive field which will indeed be - and is already - impacted by A1. Trying to deter her from an apprenticeship probably isn't helpful unless she has a better option immediately available.

lincroft1710

What sort of videos does she want to make?


YouTube is full of amateur video makers. It is hardly an original career option and either her approach or subject matter has to be unique for her to stand out in an enormously crowded field.