It should be the easiest part of the job hunting process. It should only happen when both an employer and potential freelancer or employee are serious about working together. But so many people screw up references. They bandy them about to any employer who will open an e-mail or they don’t have them ready when..
Students and new professionals are perpetually asking what the best gear is to get at any given price point. I hate to through my own industry under the bus (this may be a lie) but film students are very often the worst offenders. Yet almost none of them stop to question whether or not they..
A freelancer really has 2 jobs. The first is to be absolutely great at what they do. The second, much more difficult and painful job, is to consistently find work. It’s something that the vast majority of freelancers struggle with regardless of experience level. The bright side is that freelance work snowballs- as you build..
I was once talking with an animator about the film ‘The Life of Pi’. We were discussing the extraordinarily high quality of the CG. “It’s all specialty,” he said, “Putting together a team with specialists who each know how to do one thing extremely well.” I agreed, but lamented the direction the industry was going...
Being a creative professional pretty much guarantees that at some point you’ll be asked to work for free. You’ll likely also get the ‘do it for the expooooosuuuuureee’ manipulative spiel (side note: I’ve been a creative professional for over a decade and have never gotten a job from exposure of another project, despite many of..
