rachelkiley: I’m looking at a preliminary, completely fucking basic, bare minimum budget for a…
I’m looking at a preliminary, completely fucking basic, bare minimum budget for a project coming up soon and like, it’s still so much money. It’s under-compensating people relative to their creative worth and not getting so much of the stuff we want and need, and using free sets and (some) free equipment, and it’s still thousands of dollars for two days and I have no idea how we’re gonna pull it together.
I say this because I’m looking at this, thinking how tempting it would be – and, quite frankly, how easy it would be – to call in favors and ask people to do some of these things for free. But you can’t. You can’t do that. We’re not in high school or college anymore, we’re not at the high end of the entertainment industry where we get paid the big bucks and can do fun side projects for free, but the people I know are working entertainment industry professionals, scraping by, and you can’t ask people to do what they’ve trained at, what they’re good at, how they make (never enough) money, for free, because it’s shitty. We aren’t entitled to make movies, no matter how much we want to, and if you’re doing something that requires a number of people, a lot of talent, you’ve gotta make sure everyone has something to gain from it.
Not exposure.
I don’t say this to pat myself on the back and be like LOOK AT ME, I’M DOING THE RIGHT THING. I say it because I get how fucking tempting it is to fuck people over and excuse it somehow. It really is. When you wanna do something so bad and it seems so far out of reach because money’s a fucking bitch that rules and ruins our lives (or rather, the lack of it does). And I talk about this a lot, about not screwing people over, about paying your cast and crew, because I know I’m too proud to be a hypocrite about it. I’m keeping myself accountable, like I want to keep everyone else accountable, and I hope you all will too.
Anyway. Ranting. Time to go off and drink and draw up plans to rob a small bank.
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