As a coordinator and production supervisor in television and film and now as the Chair of the Film Division of Chapman University, Barbara Freedman Doyle is an expert at the mistakes people just entering the film industry make. Here, in an excerpt from her new book Make Your Movie: What You Need to Know About the Business and Politics of Filmmaking, now available from Focal Press, she gives some tips on how anyone entering the film industry can make sure they stop themselves from saying what they really think and stay in the good graces of those with the power to hire. _________________________________________________ Reputation Is All You Have. In a business where much of the deal-making and negotiations are verbal, your word and your reputation is Everything. The film industry is small. Everyone who is established can easily make contact with anyone else or can get the straight scoop by making a few calls.
- 4/4/2012
- by Barbara Freedman Doyle
- Indiewire
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