PART 1: “Indie film seeks cast and crew. No pay, food and credit.” If you’re in the film industry, you’ve seen these posts. They pop up on Craig’s List, Facebook and numerous other filmmaking sites all across the internet. Most people balk at the “Food and Credit,” posts as if those two things are easy for the filmmaker to provide, which is why he or she is offering that instead of pay. Well, as someone who has typed that phrase many times in my career, I can tell you one thi

With every new production comes a new nugget of knowledge. It never seems to fail! In all of my time as a filmmaker I have always come away from a shoot wishing that I would have shot an extra insert shot featuring some close up or wishing that I had planned an important transtitional shot that better tells the story. After years it finally dawned on me that I could shoot my commercial even before I shot my commercial. And why not? People perform various drafts on their sc