Between Open Assignments, Invite Assignments, and Poptent Productions, we’ve cultivated more great opportunities for independent filmmakers to create video for major brands than ever. While everyone can get into the Open Assignments, some opportunities are offered to an exclusive group of producers, our Poptent Pros.

Are you a Poptent Pro?

A Poptent Pro is a producer who has had an assignment submission purchased by one of our brand or agency clients. A purchase in any assignment, whether it’s open or invite, will make you a Poptent Pro. Poptent Pros get first access to Invite Assignment and direct-paying Poptent Productions opportunities because their creative work is inspired, well-produced, and impresses our clients.

Plenty of Poptent members haven’t yet been purchased by our brand or agency clients, but many of you are also producing well-thought out, technically solid videos. That’s great! We see a clear path to success for you here – a way to break into professional commercial filmmaking. For instance, we do invite members of our community with skill sets we need for specific assignments, but haven’t yet been purchased, to participate in Invite Assignments.

How do I become a Pro?

We want to cultivate as many Poptent Pros as possible, and we’re committed to helping you succeed and join this elite group. With a little hard work and creative prowess, you’ll become a top member of Poptent in no time.

First, make sure you’re regularly participating in our Open Assignments. Again, if your video gets purchased by one of our clients, you’re a Pro.

Demonstrating that you can consistently craft great creative and technically-solid videos on a deadline will also earn you Invites to selective assignments that increase your opportunities to get that first purchase. Some producers get an Invite slot after their very first video submission, while others need a few assignments get comfortable with the process and start producing videos that our clients will purchase.

The main criteria we use to select participants for each Invite Assignment is our belief that a producer can write scripts and create video that impresses and is good enough to be purchased by a major brand. Often, we do some match-making between what the brand is looking for and the producers’ skill sets, but there are some specific traits that most of our Pros share, and we look for from all producers:

– The ability to sell subtly
- Tight editing
- Avoidance of common sense mistakes
- Strong technical skills
- Following privacy guidelines, including not posting submissions anywhere except Poptent.net

Conclusion

We’re working hard at refining this process to make sure everyone who’s talented and motivated enough gets allocated good, fun work. If you’d like feedback on what you can do to be invited to participate in Invite Assignments, don’t be afraid to ask. Our Community Managers are more than happy to give you feedback on any of the videos you’ve created.

Have more questions? Head over to our Invite Assignment discussion, and ask away.