, leaving a vast cross section of industry participants — from crew members to costume designers to craft service workers — without a paycheck.of the coronavirus pandemic and the strike, young people striving to join the industry told Insider they've been dealt a one-two punch. Some are losing faith that opportunities are really on the horizon as they confront relentless professional setbacks and financial pain.
But some still fear the damage this period could do to their long-term ambitions. One grad seeking a role as a set designer said her joblessness during the strike could upend her visa requirements and ability to stay in the US. Another said he was applying for food stamps as credit card bills surged. And an intern at a large streaming organization said some of his friends' had seen their summer internships canceled.
According to Dan Green, the director of the master's program in entertainment industry management at Carnegie Mellon's Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, more than 20 of the 38 students who graduated with the degree in May have already landed jobs. That puts this year's cohort on track with past grads, he said.
For the past few weeks, Nabha Purohit — a 23-year-old production design graduate who moved to Brooklyn from Georgia after earning her master's from the Savannah College of Art and Design — has been working as an interior designer at a West Elm furniture showroom. At Paramount Pictures' sprawling studio lot on Melrose Avenue, soundstages have gone quiet, but tours are ongoing as visitors try to get a look at the spots where parts of famous movie and TV franchises like"The Godfather" and"Star Trek" were filmed.
Insider spoke with a separate LA-based intern in the business affairs department of a large streamer, who also insisted on anonymity for fear of professional reprisal. After his workflow slowed early on in the strike, he's stayed busy making Excel spreadsheets at the office and arranging coffee chats with execs, thanks to their newly freed-up schedules.
Proctor estimated he's applied to 70 entertainment jobs but only heard back from five, all of which fizzled after an interview or two. Recently, he lost out on one of those full-time opportunities — which he'd been pursuing for months — to one of the two roommates with whom he shares a three-bedroom in North Hollywood.
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