Sometimes the hardest part about doing your taxes is summoning the will to start. If you’re like me, you’ll do anything else on your long list of “To-Do’s” before you’re willing to do taxes. I don’t blame you.
Filmmaking Tips and Advice
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How to Do Your Taxes as a Freelance Filmmaker (Series)
When you’re a freelancer, paying taxes can seem like a huge burden. There’s more paperwork to handle, calculations to make, and money on the line. If you don’t wade through the ocean of tax rules carefully, your filing could end up being a tidal wave of epic proportions.
The 10 Commandments of Slating
What came forth were laws and commandments written by the Lord himself for all camera assistants and clapper-loaders to learn and to follow. With their slates in hand, they waited patiently as, one-by-one, the rules of slating were laid upon them.
5 Ways the Camera Department Can Help Avoid “Fix It In Post” Headaches
It’s true there are some things that are primed for post-production and are better done in front of a computer rather than in front of a camera. But there’s a difference between planning a shot to be enhanced in post and relegating a shot to be fixed in post. As camera assistants, we may have a small role to play, but if we play it effectively, we can help avoid some major “fix it in post” headaches.
Find the Perfect Lighting Gels with These LEE Filters and Roscolux Pocket Guides
Knowing which lighting gels do what is crucial to using them properly. So Brian Dailey has created Gel Pocket Guides: a reference for lighting gels that you can put on your phone or in your toolkit to consult in a pinch.
Learn for a Lifetime, Not a Product Cycle
If you want to be a professional, you’re going to have to dive deeper than these obsessed filmmakers. You’re going to have to do the hard work. You’re going to have to actually learn beyond the product cycle.
The Empty Calendar Can Be Your Friend
It’s the empty calendar that scares us. The days without call sheets, the afternoons with nothing to do, and the nights open for drinking with friends.
5 Below the Line Lessons from David Fincher’s House of Cards
When Netflix handed David Fincher the keys to a $100-million production called “House of Cards,” nobody knew what was going to happen. Would the investment pay off? Would Fincher flounder or flourish in television? Is it still considered TV even if it never broadcasts over the cable pipes?
25 Filmmaking Terms that Sound Like Sex Acts (and What They Actually Mean)
Here’s a list of filmmaking terms I’ve compiled that, in a twisted world, would be spoken only in a hotel room with a hooker and a $100 bill. Instead we shout them on set.
How to Handle Working for an Asshole
I wish I could tell you that everyone in the film industry is nice as cherry pie, but I know it’s not true. At some point, you’re going to encounter an asshole. How you deal with them will have a tremendous effect on the path your career takes — for better or worse.