You Got Your First Job in Hollywood. Now What?
Your first job in Hollywood WILL suck – I guarantee it – but you will learn many invaluable lessons and start to build a network that you can rely on to help you move up.
3 Ways Money Inevitably Bleeds Out of a Production
An important part of producing movies – or working anywhere creating content, really – is fighting unpreparedness, larceny, and fraud. We probably can’t eliminate them (unless there’s a magic wand I’m unaware of), but we can ease their influence on a production.
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Don’t Be Derivative: Why Your TV or Film Project Needs to Be Unique
If you want your work to be seen (and eventually bought) you have to come with an original idea. Derivative work, from young creatives, winds up in the scrap heap of bad ideas and the irrelevant.
Why Producers Use Credit (or at Least How They SHOULD)
Producers should only use credit to close a defined gap in cash flow, not finance a movie in hopes of selling it to a distributor.
What is Talent, Anyway?
“Talent” is misused all the time. People use the word as if it’s something divinely bestowed, only graced to a select few. “He’s such a talented director.” “She’s such a talented writer.” The truth is no one comes out of the womb blocking a big set piece or writing the next Pulitzer or Oscar winner.