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quit v30 to be an independent film producer?
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Date: January 28th, 2015 9:42 AM Author: Sienna Startled Partner National 4th year associate bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#27202602) |
Date: April 4th, 2015 12:11 PM Author: crusty mad-dog skullcap lol, no (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#27617998) |
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Date: April 4th, 2015 12:12 PM Author: frisky chad Know a guy who did something like this and ended up back in biglaw. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#27618003) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:07 PM Author: indecent tattoo milk (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28589951) |
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Date: April 4th, 2015 12:17 PM Author: soul-stirring site corn cake Know a dude who did that. I think he would do it again. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#27618034) |
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Date: April 4th, 2015 12:22 PM Author: Cerise mildly autistic stag film Fuck Yeah (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#27618060) |
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Date: June 15th, 2015 9:56 AM Author: Sienna Startled Partner National (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28123078) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 11:52 AM Author: Sienna Startled Partner National I'm doing it bros (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28589872) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:04 PM Author: charcoal gunner kitchen damn. whats your first project about? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28589940) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:07 PM Author: Sienna Startled Partner National Heroin addiction (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28589952) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 1:36 PM Author: harsh office so prestigious
why not do biglaw and just doc all the heroin addicts in biglaw? |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 2:33 PM Author: Sienna Startled Partner National lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28590935) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:06 PM Author: irate vigorous locus can i join your crew?
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:07 PM Author: Sienna Startled Partner National U can be my gaffer. How are u with electric (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28589958) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:09 PM Author: irate vigorous locus mediocre. i'm a solid casting director though (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28589970) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:12 PM Author: Sienna Startled Partner National Even better. I got a lot of really distinctive rolls to fill on a tight budget. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28589987) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:20 PM Author: irate vigorous locus nice! i won't let you down. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28590051) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:07 PM Author: indecent tattoo milk i did this and came straight back (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28589955) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:08 PM Author: Sienna Startled Partner National How long did U give it? Was it hard to find a law gig after? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28589963) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:10 PM Author: indecent tattoo milk ~8 months, i worked as an associate producer on a major production
no, i had top creds |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:13 PM Author: Sienna Startled Partner National R u the dude who lived in his moms basement for two years and thinks v30s are shitlaw? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28589993) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:14 PM Author: indecent tattoo milk maybe i cant keep track of my flame (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28590005) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:16 PM Author: Sienna Startled Partner National lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28590018) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:21 PM Author: Haunting multi-colored selfie (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28590058) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:28 PM Author: nighttime school sex offender (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28590107) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 3:01 PM Author: odious deranged cuck (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28591135) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:17 PM Author: Sienna Startled Partner National My goal would not be to maek it in Hollywood. My goal would be to make a series of small budget, avante garde short films that receive moderate critical and audience attention and provides a meager living for me, prod in conjunction with a series of shit odd jobs like tutoring (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28590028) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:20 PM Author: indecent tattoo milk ya we did opposite things, i was on the "associate" producing track (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28590047) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:23 PM Author: Sienna Startled Partner National What was the billable requirement (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28590070) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:26 PM Author: indecent tattoo milk no billables, you get paid hourly but those almost always get blown away cuz you are maxing out hrs during shooting,meaning 100 hour weeks
i believe it was around 12 dollars an hour, and you got paid 1.5 or 2x for overtime, i never paid attention cuz it was not very meaningful |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:12 PM Author: irate vigorous locus (dude who supposedly has highly relevant info and experience poasting one line) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28589985) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:12 PM Author: indecent tattoo milk what do u want to know friendo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28589988) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:14 PM Author: irate vigorous locus what made you decide to do it? what was your experience like? why'd you go back to biglaw? how was the lifestyle? what was the work like? etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28590000) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:19 PM Author: indecent tattoo milk was a film geek, loved movies so it was a no brainer when an opportunity came up when i was transitioning between jobs
it was a huge production and kinda too big for some n00b to be joining, it was fucking brutal, lots of menial tasks, standing around, fetching shit, driving around random towns. it was exciting at first but i was working around 100 hours a week during shooting so was too tired to enjoy it, of course pay was shit
i decided i liked getting reamed out in an air conditioned office while making 200K+ versus getting buttfucked in random cities while making less than 20K per film |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:20 PM Author: Sienna Startled Partner National Cr. Just another cog in the wheel of corporate America. I'm charting a different path. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28590056) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:22 PM Author: irate vigorous locus dude is weak flame. don't listen to him! don't let him flame your dream away! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28590062) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:22 PM Author: Sienna Startled Partner National That's really not my dream, see above. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28590065) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:24 PM Author: indecent tattoo milk sadly its not (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28590075) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:13 PM Author: sepia telephone Subject: it depends, Do you have connections, financing, distribution, or know a production services co.? Then maybe. The business isn't terribly difficult. Getting into it can be. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28589990) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:14 PM Author: Sienna Startled Partner National No connections. Minimum financing. No distribution. All I know is that I'll fail 100% of the time I don't bother trying. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28590004) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:20 PM Author: irate vigorous locus I know some producer/writer types. they don't have much financing or distribution. the way it currently works for them is they might connect with some other producers (my understanding is there are producers who do business side, creative side, or both) who want a certain story. dudes write a mockup or whatever, then shop it around to studios looking for financing. if the script gets picked up, dudes can produce the film. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28590049) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:22 PM Author: Sienna Startled Partner National My current theory is that if you build it they will come. What stops 99% of would be filmmakers is just not doing filmmaking. You write and spec and pitch and try to get someone else to make ur movie. I'm just gonna take 30k of biglaw savings and frakking do it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28590063) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:55 PM Author: sepia telephone $30K won't even get you rights to a script. But you're right, the problem with most ppl is that they never fucking try to do it. I'm at work or I'd go on. Will try to come back to this thread at lunch. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28590293) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 1:35 PM Author: Sienna Startled Partner National again, not trying to buy a blacklist script or whatever. just trying to make small, local, engaging film (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28590555) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 2:30 PM Author: sepia telephone You'll need at least $1M to be close to comfortable making this. Throw your hat into the tax lottery and hope. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28590927) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 2:34 PM Author: Sienna Startled Partner National tax lottery?
dude colin treverrow made safety not guaranteed for 150k and got off that got hired to do Jurassic World and Star Wars. 1 mil is a medium budget film these days.
anyways im talking shorts, not features, so way less. |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 3:00 PM Author: sepia telephone Lol, yeah with the Duplass bros. on board. The problem isn't the shooting budget, the problem is attaching people that will get the movie actually distributed and knowing ppl that will set those conversations up. He made it for $150K, sure, but any profit was eaten up by deferments and back end paid to make up for everyone doing it at scale. He wouldn't have gone on to Jurassic World without knowing the right people. If you do, good on to you brother. The likelihood is that you might break even if you go svod with it, but you're not jumping into Star Wars by making an indie. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28591128) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 3:06 PM Author: Sienna Startled Partner National yea man ur right. but again, im shooting low. just wanna make movies, ya know. theres alot to be discouraged about, but what else should i do, give up before i start? lateral every 15 months until im 40? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28591155) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 3:01 PM Author: sepia telephone And if you hit the tax lottery, you will def. get financing or distr...and with presales that'd be financing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28591137) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:21 PM Author: Histrionic glassy kitty Ohhhhhhh that's a great idea. Film is easy money. And dude, if you have a half-way decent script, LA studios are just handing out money. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28590057) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:23 PM Author: Sienna Startled Partner National Not in it for the money. Id I wanted money Id just doc review my life away (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2793895&forum_id=2#28590066) |
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:26 PM Author: irate vigorous locus Can we just film short social experiments and poast them online?
edit: we can just create tons of viral videos to help finance the co |