We recently connected with Brianna Spieldenner and have shared our conversation below.

Brianna, appreciate you joining us today. Can you open up about a risk you’ve taken – what it was like taking that risk, why you took the risk and how it turned out?

When I first started out working in the film business, I was turning at a production studio. While there I never really found my place or knew what I wanted to do and Helped run the studio, but didn’t have a specialty was treated pretty poorly. That all changed when my boss was producing a film in the area, and the Production designers kept dropping out until he asked me to Production design the film, which is one of the most important jobs on set. I had no experience and didn’t even know what that job entailed but I knew this was my chance to really get my foot in the industry I learned all I could about what I should be doing and ended up doing a pretty good job And after because of that, I had the courage to confront my boss about treating me badly and basically quit my full-time job there headfirst into gig work that I couldn’t guarantee. I was on a trip to Croatia and I literally couldn’t guarantee that I had any income when I came back, but luckily because of the film that I did a producer contacted me about Production designing a film in Georgia and when I got back, I was able to jump onto that and from that point on, I had consistent work because I took the risk to begin with in a job. I had no experience in, and then to quit my job with no guarantee of income and start working in a state that I didn’t live in. Since I’ve been able to get constant work, doing what I love

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

As a Production designer , I am the head of the art department On a film set, which is one of the most important positions. I control all the spaces that are seen on a set, including interior decorating, and everything that an actor would hold or interact with and also involves building any sets that need to be built or augmented.

What do you think helped you build your reputation within your market?

What has been most important for me is making things happen and going above what is asked of me and also always being able to translate what a Director wants onto the screen and being able to pivot when unexpected problems come up. Also being able to creatively problem solve.

Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?

My job always involves pivoting as I work on tight schedules and insecure sources of work. I have been committed to films to the degree that I have started meeting with the director to look for locations and started working on them for the films to be cancelled and my source of income to be no longer there and having to find something else quickly. Also schedules are always changing so sets that I think are later suddenly have to be moved up and I have to quickly problem solve how to make a set work when I may not have all the materials I need yet.

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