A short spoken advice piece for aspiring narrative/feature filmmakers arguing that solely chasing feature careers (and juggling unrelated day jobs) is counterproductive. The speaker recommends getting into commercial work—creating paid content for businesses—to earn money that can fund personal passion projects (features, shorts), allowing one to pursue creative goals without sacrificing financial stability.
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Here's why. Trying to be the next Steven Spielberg is actually a horrible idea. Now, I know a lot of people want to go into narrative and feature filmmaking, and there's definitely nothing wrong with that. It's an amazing thing to do, and it's honestly a ton of fun and very fulfilling creatively. Right. But the issue that I see with most people is that they're trying to go do that. They're spending all their time trying to find funding, trying to work on features, trying to go and shoot passion projects, and then they're also working at, you know, McDonald's or a server job or, you know, a career path that they're really not passionate about, which is taking them away from the main thing they want to do. So what I suggest you do is you get into commercial work. You create doing something you love, make a lot of money doing that for businesses, and then use that money to fund your own feature, fund your own passion project, fund your own short film. So you can have the best of both worlds. But if you're like, it doesn't make any sense to work in a job that that doesn't have anything to do with what you're doing. And then trying to pursue the creative passion project.
