MAPS students get career advice from Hollywood

He had them at Kung Fu Panda.

As Hollywood advertising specialist Jeremy Sauter http://www.facebook.com/jeremy.sauter walked the MAPS Media Institute http://www.mapsmediainstitute.com/ after-school program students through a career primer for communications and marketing, the message was clear enough.

You had better be ready to be dedicated, he told them last week, if you want to excel in the amazingly competitive world of Hollywood movies and fast-paced advertising, or any creative field.

And you should be ready to be good. And tough. And smart. And ready to listen to your critics. And be independent-minded. And be able to work collaboratively.

"If you’re making a website, and it’s boring, nobody’s coming back," said Sauter, the one-time University of Montana journalism student who dove headlong into the world of advertising and now works with Paramount Pictures to market A-list films. "You’ve got to bring your A-game all the time. It’s a very competitive world."

By SEPP JANNOTTA – Ravalli Republic

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