Rip off companies

In the last few days I have heard story after story about film makers not getting paid after selling a film.
Mind you there are two sides to a story yad yada yada still
Film makers:
1) Have everything in writing
2) Have a lawyer look over contracts BEFORE you sign then
3) Check backgrounds and ask for references. If the company gets pissed off might be a reason they are not happy to provide them.
4) If a deal is to go to be true it is.
5) If the company starts not living up to their end use a lawyer sooner then later
6) Tell the world have facts to back it up.

One of the reasons these fools get by with this is no one knows about who they are and what they are doing

Note I am not a lawyer and do not play on on TV

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The War on Hollywood

For far too long "we" have been fighting heaven and earth to claw our way to hollywood to make it big and be a star. A great home in the hills, Nice car and Eye candy on the arm and the rising star on the office couch.
Taking classes in film school hvy on art and little on how. Once out of school slaving as an intern hoping if we know/sleep the right folks one day maybe we can get a check.
So how did we get sucked into this? Are we just nuts?
Look we do not have to do this to our self's. For example in Racine WI you can be come a producer on the City Cable Access station for $60. Get training on how to use a simple video camera for another few buck and imoive too. Buy some minidv tapes your looking at a investment of less then $200 and a few hours of time.
The teck school here will train you in basic graphic stuff to design logos web design. Then all you need is the time to film something and put it on the air.
There are tons of web pages (see the links on this page) with more information. With today's equitment and accuess to that equipment take what you want.

Finding Money for Film

Not locked in but looks better and better for the Darkside film projects. So let me save everyone a lot of money. You get what you ask for

Uwe Boll

I like him I loved Hpuse of the Dead. I really loved all the naughty bits.
Interesting that I might be working with him.... Bring you updates.
Fund raising for film can be fun

The BTR show!

Starting this week we will be adding a equipment/software review to the Indy Film Wisconsin BTR show, You can hear it via the player on the blog.
From the Red to editing software we are going to help find out what rocks and what sucks, no holds
bard.
Last week I was too ill to keep the show going for the moive review of Black Widows so I will of course talk about this interesting film.
If you want your film reviwed please email me at wclingman@wi.rr.com. Same if you would like to be a guest.

Thanks!

Why SAG?

Thought. If I as an Indy Film Maker have a budget of say $150K. Why would I ever do anything SAG? Yes there some stars that are SAG that I could only get if I did say a SAG Indy thing but if my film will only get $$ for a star is my film any good? I think not.
Does SAG offer anything for the Indy Film Maker?
SAG IMHO is just like any other big union the top 5% get the $$ the rest are sheered like sheep.