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Miscellaneous Tips
How to survive in the film industry: from setiquette to crafty
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What to Do When You Fly with Film and Video Gear
If you’re flying to a location for a production, chances are you’ll bring some equipment with you. With all the tools, liquids, and chemical batteries filmmakers use on set, it’s like you’re just asking for a world of trouble from the TSA.
Escaping the Freelance Life to Enjoy Your Vacation
I’m not saying you should completely detach yourself from the world, but there are a few steps you can take before and after your vacation to maximize your enjoyment of it while minimizing its negative impact on your freelancing career.
Why You Should Get Google Plus and Unlock Its Potential for Freelance Filmmakers
For you as a filmmaker, if Google Plus is here to stay, it has the opportunity to change how you network with crew, how you produce movies with them, and even how you find work.
Kermit the Frog’s Guide to Knowing Nothing
If you want to be successful in the film industry, getting over the hump of inexperience is the first obstacle in your way. You’ll have to suck it up, push through, and hope you come out on the other side unscathed with a bit more knowledge than before – and maybe a 2nd job.
How Do You Like Them Apple Boxes?
I’d also argue the humble apple box is one of the great unifiers of the film set. They get used in every department – including by the talent – and are omnipresent on productions as small as students films to ones as large as Hollywood blockbusters.
How to Wrap Cables and Avoid a Tangled Mess
How many times have you picked up a cable only to find it tangled like an Octopus orgy? Or maybe you’ve grabbed a video cable and thrown it out on set only to have it tie itself in knots? You could even be the one who wrapped those cables causing them to get jumbled up.
How to Handle Pressure and Perform Better On Set
There are so many ways to trip over yourself in this industry and pressure is nothing more than a mind game and a trick of the thoughts. Seize control of it and you’ll be able to do your job well and accomplish the toughest of tasks.
Why It’s a Good Thing Nobody Notices You
Two Types of Filmmakers: Which One Are You?
I’ve always been a little miffed at the film industry’s walled garden of secret practices and inaccessible work. For whatever reason, learning what actually happens on a film set is tough to do for the masses.
That’s why I share so much of my own knowledge on this site, because I believe in the collaborative medium of film and that the more minds contributing the better.
Unfortunately, not everyone is as open with their experiences as I am.