How to Be a Production Assistant : Production Assistant Attire & Job Duties

Production assistants are asked to do a number of job duties like operate a camera. Their attire requires a short or long sleeve shirt and no open-toe shoes. Learn about what PAs do and proper dress attire with tips from an experienced production assistant in this free video on television careers.

Expert: Brett Pulte
Bio: Brett Pulte attended Howard Specs School of Broadcasting in Detroit. He has been a PA for two years.
Filmmaker: Bartholomew DiVietri

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• production assistant
• television
• cameras
• audio board
• lights
• light board
• coffee
• teleprompter

[bigpiimpiiin]

if you're a real pa and you are watching this you are fired.

[scuba06steve]

i stop listening when he said "we're gonna dove deeper"

[Jeremo18]

wear clothes. haha

[WestCoquitlamCurt]

Hahaha

[joannayoung1]

lol this is a kinda noooby video :)

this guy reminds me of ross geller from friends.

[bolshawk77]

1. Have a pulse

2.see step one

[punksbeer]

"Wear short sleeves or long sleeves" is just like saying "Wear whatever you want". And the whole sandals thing about how you shouldn't wear them cause a light might crush your toe is irrelevant. A 20 pound light will not care if your wearing shoes or sandals, it will still fuck up your foot. I'd suggest steel toe boots, given all these god dammed lights are going to crush my feet. I'm going to flag this video for its immaterial.

[dcaste3474]

These lights are between 10 to 30 lbs.

[dcaste3474]

Sandals are a big problem!

[MeganWish]

Im the light and sound director at my high school's theater, and shouldn't backstage/PA outfit be long sleeve long pants all black?

Also, not only are they heavy, studio and stage lights get up to 935F ;)