ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the strategies adopted by producers and engineers to cope with this increasing precarity. In particular, the chapter considers the importance of networking in developing social capital and networked reputation, both of which it is suggested are crucial assets in obtaining work in a sector increasingly marked by structured job insecurity. The chapter argues for the importance of emotional labour in developing these relational reputational assets, suggesting that ability to build relationships and manage emotions is vital to gaining work through the development of emotive trust. Informal, “softer” personality characteristics and symbolic attributes, it is argued, are an important means by which clients legitimate studio producers and engineers.
