Day 7: Dinner with Symon Mink

1/12/19, Today we did two big things. First we did our second day of PA boot camp. This was an interesting time for sure. We did learn a lot about how to act on film. We learned how to work the radios, how to respond when were spoken too through them, and who to approach on set. Unfortunately one of the ladies teaching yelled at us for just so long about how awful being a PA was I started to feel like maybe this job isn't for me and I left really disappointed with the program. Thank goodness we were able to have dinner with Symon Mink. He is a professional focus puller who has worked on multiple big budget and recognizable films like Paul Blart Mall Cop and The Amazing Spider-man. Talking with him was the exact opposite with the lady at Boot camp. He was like yeah it's hard to start but this is an amazing field. Best of all he is a TC3 alum. So seeing someone who started from such a low spot where we all are and making it to the big leagues was very inspiring.