Bryan Weiner

My ideal work environment is an active and exciting one where people are working together in order to make the best possible product. While hierarchies are important and should be based on experience, an environment where creative imput and collaboration from all participants not only improves the working environment but, I believe, in a medium such as film has a positive effect on the entire production. While there are auteurs, authors and artists that have ultimate control over the creative vision, film is uniquely a collaborative medium, unlike writing, and the work environment should reflect that. The entertainment industry is also a very demanding industry that requires intense production schedules, long hours and hard, dedicated work. While collaboration and mutual respect despite established hierarchies is important in the work environment, this also implies an expectation that everyone involved will hold up their end as well. An open and respectful work environment doesn't mean a work environment where participants are free of the criticism, high expectations and intense demands that come with this line of work. It is simply a work environment that focuses on the collaborative aspect of filmmaking and uses that strength to overcome the hardships and rigors of a difficult and tight production schedule. This, however, is my ideal work environment, which is something that doesn't really exist in any industry. I will strive for these ideals and would like to participate in work environments that strive for these ideals of respect with responsibility, collaboration with artistic vision and community with hierarchy based on experience in order to take film and television to its highest potential....