A few words for new film producers. When you start out no one tells you the ridiculous amount of your own money you’ll need to invest in yourself. It’s not always immediately apparent but bit by bit, you’ll find you have to spend money just to stay in the game. #film #producing
It might be as small as a cup of coffee here and there to take meetings to forking our for specialised industry events or festivals. And if you live outside London there’s the attritional travel costs. It all starts to add up.
Couple this with the fact that you’ll have to work for free developing projects and in all likelihood, producing short films to showcase your skills, you’re essentially paying to be in the industry.
My advice is make sure you have another job or source of income. It breaks my heart that professional producers need to moonlight in order to stay in the game but serious debt is the only other route.
The good news is that there are a lot of productions in the UK right now and they all need skilled production departments. Build up co-ordinator and PM jobs for money and credits.
The system doesn’t work right now but we need new producers to keep going, so that when change does come they are there to lead projects and get films made.
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