As a creative (filmmaker, writer, producer, director, creator etc.) what are your top 3 pain points/challenges you face with your work?
I am currently building a tech-enable start-up at VC fund Antler and am trying to gain more insights into common pain points creators and creatives feel in their day to day. We're building this with a problem first approach to make sure that our solution is really impactful and valuable. Any insight into problems, challenges you face would be incredibly helpful. This could be anything!
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- funding, funding, funding
- 1. Endless admin and sign off procedures > time could be better spent on creative2. Lack of clear ongoing communication > times of ghosting halt the flow, energy and momentum of projects3. Unclear briefs > it's a skill to write a clear brief for everyone involved (be it creative or not creative)
- @Shauna Paul Thank you for the answer to the post! Really appreciate you sharing your thoughts!
- @Michelangelo Torres Thank you for your insight! Really appreciate it.
- As far as I'm concerned, the three pain points/challenges I face are:1. Funding: it's incredibly difficult to find grants to finance audiovisual projects and the bureaucracy you have to go through is often discouraging2. Ghosting: potential customers who disappear into some kind of black hole (often when we start talking about money), it's full here on The Dots.3. Networking. I have come to the conclusion that it only works for established workers, the various "John Does" are rejected first and therefore a 'dog chasing its tail' type mechanism is triggered (I have no significant contacts because they don't know me > I don't have access to networking because not known and so on).
- Money… making films is expensive, it’s not as accessible as buying some paints and canvas from the shop and making something on your own.
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