Anon doesn't understand that some people work in projects that require skill rather than polished outlook. I personally have worked with A LOT of professionals that look (much like myself) like they've dressed up in a dark closet. Who cares, the job gets done, the clients are happy and everyone goes home feeling good.
Hey, man. I get what they were trying to express, no matter how poorly it was put. Clean positive and neat looks and clothes matter everywhere, including film/tv crew jobs. I'm not that stupid, I turned up to all my interviews dressed properly with suits and make up and shit. And I turned up to all our media congresses and press conferences and street interviews and marketing gimmicks properly dressed. I know you gotta sell yourself in this industry and anywhere else. But I'm a fucking film technican. Not a film manager. I'm about practical work, getting shit done that high ups in suits are telling me. As soon as I've visually sold myself, they don't care about my looks any longer, they care about my work and what I deliver. There's no freaking need for me to be all perfect all the time. I only gotta be like that when it fucking matters. And during this shot, it did not.I run around in dark tv studios or weird filming locations where there's lots of dirt sometimes (depending on the genre, the last thing I worked on was a freaking horror/zombie/end of the world project with LOADS of dirt and blood for christ's sakes). Hell, they're always giving us ill-fitted black crew shirts because we need to look all low key and invisible because we're not the ones who matter, the show does. and when I'm not doing that I'm sitting in dark tiny rooms in front of computers for like 8-10hours a day. Who am I dressing up for there? The computer? The extras?