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quit v30 to be an independent film producer?
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Date: January 28th, 2015 9:42 AM Author: Gold Excitant Travel Guidebook Elastic Band 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: Cobalt concupiscible trust fund antidepressant drug 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: Laughsome wild heaven dysfunction 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: Beta temple athletic conference (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: white electric furnace 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: Glittery principal's office 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: Gold Excitant Travel Guidebook Elastic Band (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: Gold Excitant Travel Guidebook Elastic Band 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: Twisted twinkling reading party 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: Gold Excitant Travel Guidebook Elastic Band 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: Duck-like Fanboi Locale 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: Gold Excitant Travel Guidebook Elastic Band 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: Cyan Bateful Nowag can i join your crew?
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Date: August 20th, 2015 12:07 PM Author: Gold Excitant Travel Guidebook Elastic Band 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: Cyan Bateful Nowag 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: Gold Excitant Travel Guidebook Elastic Band 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: Cyan Bateful Nowag 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: Beta temple athletic conference 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: Gold Excitant Travel Guidebook Elastic Band 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: Beta temple athletic conference ~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: Gold Excitant Travel Guidebook Elastic Band 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: Beta temple athletic conference 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: Gold Excitant Travel Guidebook Elastic Band 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: godawful racy factory reset button (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: sepia party of the first part coffee pot (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: orchid galvanic messiness (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: Gold Excitant Travel Guidebook Elastic Band 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: Beta temple athletic conference 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: Gold Excitant Travel Guidebook Elastic Band 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: Beta temple athletic conference 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: Cyan Bateful Nowag (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: Beta temple athletic conference 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: Cyan Bateful Nowag 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: Beta temple athletic conference 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: Gold Excitant Travel Guidebook Elastic Band 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: Cyan Bateful Nowag 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: Gold Excitant Travel Guidebook Elastic Band 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: Beta temple athletic conference 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: Olive house 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: Gold Excitant Travel Guidebook Elastic Band 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: Cyan Bateful Nowag 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: Gold Excitant Travel Guidebook Elastic Band 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: Olive house $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: Gold Excitant Travel Guidebook Elastic Band 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: Olive house 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: Gold Excitant Travel Guidebook Elastic Band 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: Olive house 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: Gold Excitant Travel Guidebook Elastic Band 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: Olive house 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: slap-happy haunted graveyard 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: Gold Excitant Travel Guidebook Elastic Band 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: Cyan Bateful Nowag 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 |