It's incredibly challenging to make a profit on a genuinely independent feature these days - close to impossible, in fact.
And whilst YouTube apparently offers a new hope for video, the fact is it's its own creature, and really doesn't support drama - or anything that takes more than five times as long to make as to watch - terribly well.
Oh, lastly - sound recordist also works pretty well as a paid gig in film, apparently. It's hard to get a guy to hold a boom mic for 12 hours for free. But other than that, making cash in film is... tricky.
I'm really good at it and I don't work for free, but I am always being asked to, which is how I come to have an ownership interest in some films, I'll take a percentage depending on who's involved. The sad reality (and this is true for camera and lighting people as well) is that very often you're being offered/paid rental for your equipment and nothing for your work.
It's incredibly challenging to make a profit on a genuinely independent feature these days - close to impossible, in fact.
And whilst YouTube apparently offers a new hope for video, the fact is it's its own creature, and really doesn't support drama - or anything that takes more than five times as long to make as to watch - terribly well.
Oh, lastly - sound recordist also works pretty well as a paid gig in film, apparently. It's hard to get a guy to hold a boom mic for 12 hours for free. But other than that, making cash in film is... tricky.