My Story
Growing up in Los Angeles, one of the rare natives to the city, I promised myself I would stay away from the entertainment industry. And then I became enamored with it. My ultimate dream is to create dynamic movie posters so people can stand in theater lobbies and oogle at them and say “yes! I want to see this movie!”
Being the pragmatic survivor that I am, my first thought when I left high school was not getting a design degree. I did what everyone who has no clear direction does – I went to school for business. Earning my Associates Degree in Business Management seemed like a fair enough accomplishment seeing as I was already in the workforce, so I stopped there.
Until I was forced to face a new decision – continue making little money or move ahead – still, no intention of design in sight. I would go on to earn my Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management and it was then that I landed squarely on the doorstep of my future. Writing one of the best “please hire me” letters I could, I scored an internship in the Overhead Budgets department at Paramount Pictures.
There I was, in the one place I promised myself I would not be. Hollywood. Granted I was still working the business side of the tracks. As graduation neared and my internship was coming to an end, I found myself in the grateful and lucky position of testing the waters in the Marketing Administration department for the Motion Picture Marketing arm of Paramount. The match turned out to be perfect, and I was soon their Senior Marketing Clerk where I would spend six years.
Six years of staring at the one sheets, standees and concept art for movie marketing campaigns drove me to madness, in a good way. When Paramount and DreamWorks made an epic merger and my department was decimated (honestly, only one of us was left standing at the end of it all) I went running back to college – this time for design.
Now armed with a Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Communications, I am finally where I am supposed to be. Creatively smack dab in the middle of the entertainment industry.
If you would like a copy of my resume please contact me.
(Image: Orchid Ornate Type created as student project)