Pro Tip #5 - Learn something new every day.
I have been toiling away in the entertainment industry for 25 years, and it never ceases to amaze me how much there is to learn. Not only are there so many facets to the filmmaking process that you can educate yourself on, from development to production to post to marketing and distribution, but the industry is constantly evolving and changing. I literally learn something that I didn't know every day I work.
Take rapidly changing camera tech. Whole conventions are dedicated to annual changes in the field. How about the world of user-generated content. AI or XR techniques. Reasons for the migration of films overseas. The use of new platforms for fundraising. The latest hot actor on the scene that no one ever heard of until last week. Newly updated budgeting and screenwriting programs. Previously unknown films just waiting to be discovered and studied. Shifts in marketplace economics. The list goes on and on.
Listen, read, open your mind to what's new, and you'll find yourself becoming a more well-versed and versatile filmmaker. The more knowledge you have to share in your area of expertise, whether a producer, AD, DP, editor, writer, makeup artist, sound mixer, you name it, the more valuable you become to others.
As a collaborative medium, filmmaking offers all of us the chance to learn something new each and every day. So embrace that gift. The day you stop learning because you know everything, well, that's the day you should go do something else.
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