BBC: From Hollywood drone operator to homeless

[Andrew Reid]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6er83ene6o

Quite an eye opener on the recent decline of the film industry.

[IronFilm]

It is fun fun fun times, both my main career (filmmaking) and my backup / previous career (i.e. the CS/IT world) are going through very rough patches right now. 

Want to go back to how it was a couple of years ago when I could be working 100hr weeks if I wished (& I did!). 

[Andrew Reid]

The strikes were not a great idea in retrospect.

[ND64]

Its funny that rage against the AI killed them, not the AI itself. 

[fuzzynormal]

Well, I'll tell you what, there ain't no way I'm laying the blame at the feet of labor in regards to the state of the biz here in SoCal.  Any objective analysis of the industry over this past decade will reveal a much more complex narrative than the recent labor dispute. 

There's a bunch of chapters of that particular story that should focus on the board rooms foremost.

Funny how that narrative has a hard time sticking in the popular media landscape, yeah?

[ntblowz]

On 9/29/2024 at 3:52 PM, IronFilm said:

It is fun fun fun times, both my main career (filmmaking) and my backup / previous career (i.e. the CS/IT world) are going through very rough patches right now. 

Want to go back to how it was a couple of years ago when I could be working 100hr weeks if I wished (& I did!). 

Wow I thought film production is getting busy again after strike end? One guy I know is really busy with film side of business this year that he don't even bother to do weddings any more, last year he had to cause no work on that side of industry.. in Auckland.

 

I was jobless for a year so I totally get how that guy feels.

But I think the overall economy have some part of it too...not all blame is on strike.