So for the last while I've been sucked into a freelance gig working on an upcoming 80 million dollar Netflix movie. It's not my own project or something I'm helming, just a post production dial turning for hire job in which my skill set is demonstrably reduced but it happens from home which is nice. Ever since I left my former industry full time, I have still on occasion done short term freelance work here and there. This is required because oftentimes the projects which we are most passionate about, which would be the ones helped to be made by you fine people and shared in these channels pay the least, and these big industry jobs pay significantly better.

I usually wouldn't even mention any freelance anything I do here, but this one I felt should be shared because it's a bit longer running and is the primary reason why the personal outputs have been slower than usual. Amongst life's other responsibilities, I've been trying to make time to write. Both upcoming film projects as well as continuing essays. But the gears are turning slowly here in Q4 2021 and into the new year.

I have very mixed feelings on the movie studios and streaming platforms such as Netflix. After spending 10 to 15 years working in and out of the traditional movie studios seeing what they did well, but more often than not seeing more what they did not do well, part of me wants them to adapt, as they are being forced to, and part of me could care less if they all went out of business for the way they’ve treated crew. Netflix has obviously become the new mega studio, releasing nearly a feature film per week, and is just rolling in cash because of gazillions of subscribers and backwards US corporate tax policy in which they pay no taxes. Yet it’s rare to see something really good on there isn’t it? It happens on occasion, and when it does that’s great. But it’s rare.