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Post Production Coordinator - Post Production Coordinator LeftField Pictures Employee Review

2.0
Jun 21, 2018
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Pros

This is a good place to work if you're just starting out in the business. You will get exposure to Avid and other technologies used in video editing, so if you're into that, this might be a good place. They offer health care benefits for staff employees. There is room for growth if you put your time in.

Cons

The pay is bad. They lowball everyone they hire, and unfortunately so many people in the industry are desperate enough to accept their offer. The workload is immense. Expect to work 11 or 12 hour days often. There are several different sub-companies that are part of Leftfield, about 7 when I was there, and I was the post coordinator for all of them. They are notorious for underpaying and overworking their employees; my starting contract was for $950/week, 60 hours a week. Many of the employees at Leftfield are inexperienced. I noticed a pattern of hiring completely inept film crews who did not seem to know the basics. This is probably due to the non-competitive pay offered. The benefits are bad. They offered 5 days vacation after 2 years when I started. Luckily, my position was unionized and I got 5 days vacation after one year. Still bad. High turnover. People did not stay here long, not sure if because they left to pursue other opportunities or were fired.

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5.0
Mar 13, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Great people doing creating exciting TV.

Cons

The edit bays could be a bigger.

1.0
Jun 27, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

The crew I worked on was awesome, and full of talented helpful people. Great actual work experience.

Cons

I worked for 27 hours on a show of theirs when they were filming in my state. I worked on set for them as a P.A. on May 10th-11th and to this day I haven't been payed yet. I've been dogging them for my check. It all started with someone in H.R. getting my email address completely wrong, delaying me getting the link to my online time card by a week. Then I was forced to re-fill out all of my starting legal information they needed from me. After that they eventually sent me my time card to fill out, and three weeks later I haven't gotten paid. This was because they had "lost" my starting information. I've been waiting for almost 2 months for payment for my work, and the management at leftfield pictures has been making it as hard as possible to receive it. I'm about 75% sure they are doing this deliberately to make sure they don't have to pay me. What they're doing is borderline illegal and I hope a higher up in the company reads this.

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