Description: A R T I S T WITH I S S U E S, the FU Institute’s digital journal contains ongoing materials that explore the issues we the artist facing today.
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A R T I S T WITH I S S U E S, the FU Institute’s digital journal contains ongoing materials that explore the issues we the artist facing today.
Filmmaking is a difficult medium because it is so tied to finance. By nature it is a team sport and your team need to be fairly compensated for their time. It’s easy for someone with an idea they’re in love with to imagine that professionals will want donate time to an interesting project for the love of doing good work. But the reality is people need to pay their bills, and even if they didn’t, there’s a certain kind of mutual respect that comes with paying someone what they’re worth. If you want the time
When someone feels respected through financial compensation you can push them harder creatively which makes for a better collaboration, because I don’ t have to consider if ‘I’m working them too hard for how much I’m paying them’. Even when I manage to get the funds together to complete production, the costs of good post production stall projects I would have released ages ago if I did not have to save for many months between working on them. Good colorists and good sound mixers are always busy and even if