Creating a Career in Entertainment: Collaborating Outside the Spotlights in an Evolving Industry

Are you a student or current entertainment professional who wants to discover how others succeeded in the entertainment business? Creating a Career in Entertainment presents real-life examples of how to build a behind-the-scenes career. Author Elaine Spooner was a technology change agent in Hollywood for over thirty years during Hollywood’s digital revolution. She presents can-do stories to help readers visualize their potential. The examples emphasize accepting and adapting to evolution in the industry. The author met diverse professionals during Hollywood’s digital revolution as she experienced it at Internet startups, 21st Century Fox, Warner Bros., Disney, and Universal. The chapters in Creating a Career in Entertainment include success takeaways, interviews from behind the screens, and advice from experts about how to get a job and build a career. The Animation section profiles a newly minted animator who loves storyboarding. The Below-the-Line Production , Music Historian , and Finance sections include stories about a writer’s assistant for multiple well-known TV series, a rock band travel manager and photographer, and a Business Affairs executive. Two Performers discuss how they pivoted acting and musical theater career paths in a market upended by a pandemic. Television and Game Producers and a Writer talk about what it’s like to produce interactive games, websites, hit TV series, plays, and films. In the Entrepreneurs section, readers learn about four wildly different and successful self-starters. The Marketing and Television Distribution sections introduce people responsible for delivering the final product worldwide and championing technology breakthroughs in Internet media delivery. The last two sections are stories of Technology Design and Leadership experts who experienced Hollywood’s digital revolution. She wrote about the industry first in the memoir Outside The Spotlights, Conversations with Unsung Creators Behind the Screens in Hollywood , available now on Amazon . “I wrote both books to illustrate what can happen when you’re willing to look in unexpected places for a challenging career. I did it. The forty people you’ll meet in Creating a Career in Entertainment did it. You can, too.” — ASIN: 1735791164 | ISBN13: 9781735791166 | ISBN-13: 978-1735791166