Filmmakers: Stop Asking For Free Shit

   You have a film or short that you need to have done? Lean how to budget. If your car breaks down or something goes wrong in your house or apartment are the repairs done free? Maybe you'll hook them up later with paid work? I don't think so. And you douche bags who are "award winners" and still can't pay your crew, you motherfuckers need to get quadruple pimp slapped. If you've won awards you can afford to pay. Nothing comes free. No one is trying to do this for the "love". Save up your money for your project so you can at least offer to pay SOMETHING. Otherwise it's not even cheap labor, it's slave labor.

If you have no budget do some things on your own. You don't need a storyboard artist. Draw stick figures. Spielberg did it, why can't you? No DP? Shoot it yourself with a camcorder. Lighting? 3 lights, Key, Fill, and Back. Done. Editing? Use freeware like Lightworks (28 Days Later, Hanna, Pulp Fiction and several other movies) or OpenShot Video Editor to edit your project. If you're creative enough to make a movie, you can budget your project. Want your Kickstarter project to look good? Pay for it to look good and I'm sure you'll get ample seed money. Don't expect pro level work if you can't pay for it.

• Location: Los Angeles
• Compensation: Why should I? Y'all don't.