DGA

My love for film production and producing Television shows would hopefully lead me toward the Director ‘s Guild of America. Since I was very young I have dreamed about being in the entertainment industry and I always had a passion for telling stories and cinema.  This dream soon turned into a lifetime pursuit of happiness when I chose Full Sail University to study film.

The directors Guild of America was started in 1936 representing film and tv directors as a labor union. As a union that seeks to organize an individual profession, rather than multiple professions across an industry, the DGA is a craft union. It represents directors, assistant directors, stage managers, and production associates in television, and directors, assistant directors, unit production managers, technical coordinators, and location managers  in film as well as similar positions in television commercials production.

The union works mostly in the negotiation of work agreements for its members. It also sets the minimum wage for directors and orders what acceptable working and traveling conditions for its members. The dga has established clearly defined guidelines for the director's creative rights on a production. More than 10,000 members of the DGA are involved with theatrical, industrial, educational, and documentary films as well as television, radio, video, and commercial productions. The Artists' Rights Foundation was created by the DGA in 1990 to protect artists' works worldwide.

In my time at Full Sail University I had the privilege of learning my true passion of directing. In my 16mm production class I was chosen by my classmates and teachers to direct one of three class projects. I was overcome with a sense of joy and nervousness I had never been in this position before but I was a proven leader. This is when I first learned of the Director Guild. I read every article that was on there rss feed to better my knowledge of the subject of Directing. Although the project wasn’t an Oscar nominated performance but my crew and I worked to the best of there abilities.

sources
http://www.answers.com/topic/directors-guild-of-america
http://www.dga.org/index2.php3