Producers often work under stress as they try to meet schedules, stay within budgets, and resolve personnel problems while putting together a production. Producers express ideas and create images, based on a script, in theater, film, television and radio. There are no specific training requirements for producers. Producers come from different backgrounds. Actors, writers, film editors, and business managers often enter this field.
Producers often start in the industry working behind the scenes with successful directors.
The large number of people desiring producing careers and the lack of formal entry requirements should continue to cause keen competition for producer jobs. Only the most talented are likely to find regular employment. As producers' reputations grow, they work on larger productions or in more prestigious theaters.