A couple weeks ago, I had a conversation with a friend of mine who mixes features. She said something that, at the time, I found hilarious, "It's a great time to work if you're willing to work for free." I had just passed up a couple days on a freebee, credit only, contact only shoot, for a couple less exciting but more profitable days working on a demo project. The way we left the conversation was that passing up the job was nothing to worry about, that there would be plenty of opportunity to do jobs like that in the weeks and months to come.
But the facts coming to light now are not so funny: a lot of supremely qualified operators out there can't even get the free jobs. The competition for low/no budget production is fierce.
It makes me wonder if any of this low budget material, presumably being crewed by highly skilled individuals, will ever be seen by anyone. Or whether most of these "short films" are just reel builders that will remain ignored and unseen like the resumes of hundreds of qualified crew members.
To me that sounds like a lot of wasted talent.
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