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I was on a shoot last week with some folks who are all in and they are worrying now, its fuckin deathly quiet but even my other work is quiet so it seems to be everyone that's facing it a little.
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Still pretty bleak from the more corporate side of TV; companies/labels are merging back-office type roles, smaller companies are being defunded - from talking to friends in similar roles, it sounds like there's probably going to be a few hundred less TV jobs in the UK by the end of the year. Everyone I know that works in production on non-salaried roles (ie most people in production) are considering leaving the industry for more stability.
Difficult times but you've got to hope companies adapt to the new realities of cashflows, become more efficient then can keep going! People still need something to watch so it's not like TV's are just going to be blank screens but it's just where & how the content is made that's in question for me.
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How are we all looking?
Had a few small edits come in over February which has helped and am starting to get closer to confirming bookings on some decent shoots for April and beyond, but it's been a hairy 3 months (and the next 3 weeks might still be a struggling financially - have basically relied on savings and selling gold etc since end of November).
Had a largely brilliant 2023 with a good forecast for Dec/Jan but then lost about £30k worth of work in those two months (which took the shine off of spending that much on kit in the months leading up to it). I took the time to re-do website, instagram etc and get my cold-email fingers working along with tons of research on outreach. I feel if I passed the data to someone useful they'd get some work from it but sales has never been my forte. It's resulted in a few meetings but in the end it's existing clients that are back and hopefully about to become bookings (thankfully not the ones that flaked over Dec/Jan).