On Mon, 16 May 1994 17:04:41 -0500 Richard J. Leskosky said: >except on rent and car expenses. Good luck! P.S. When you go in for your >interview, it's probably not a good idea to tell them that you really want >to direct. I attended the DGA workshop for educators a number of years ago, and the Guild used that program for both teachers and orientation of their 2nd AD trainees. I remember the person who ran the trainee program said that it was definitely not a good idea to try to impress them by saying you wanted to direct. Apart from the fact that it suggested you didn't really understand the function of the 2nd AD (or the AD, for that matter) as a logistician (is that a word?) and traffic director, with considerable responsibility for the efficient, businesslike, and needless to say, economically wary operation of the production, which requires particular types of creativity, not necessarily the type of artistic creativity that (alongside all the logistical talents, of course) that might be characteristic of a first-rate director. They seemed to have devised their tests and interviews according to a profile of an ideal 2nd AD, and had all sorts of ways of determining whether or not you fit the profile, and, accordingly, all sorts of ways of eliminating candidates they deemed unfit. I vaguely recall that one of the tests of honesty involved asking whether one's stool was black and tarry. I don't remember the reasoning -- it involved iron supplements -- but it made sense, even as it seemed invasive and humiliating. Good luck from here, too, and watch out for the trick questions. Blaine Allan [log in to unmask] Film Studies Queen's University Kingston, Ontario Canada K7L 3N6