Signs that you’ve been a filmmaker for too long

by Tagdumala ~ May 30th, 2008. Filed under: SineBuano Articles.

14) Your dining room is set up for 3-point lighting

13) Your date says to pick her/him up in 45 minutes, and you wonder if s/he meant drop-frame or non-drop-frame

12) Your home movies are preceded by :45 bars, FBI warning and a Dolby introduction

11) You run into a guy who says he’s gonna shoot the President, and you remind him to get some good B-roll

10) The photography on the news makes you laugh

9) Your bathroom fluorescents are color corrected

8 ) Your kids’ names: Lowel, Mic, Bogen, little Chimera, and the twins: Ike/Gami

7) You dream everything in green screen

6) Your friends refuse to watch television with you anymore

5) Terms like “best boy,” “key grip,” and “second unit” no longer make you chuckle

4) Twenty bucks for a roll of tape doesn’t sound that unreasonable anymore

3) You see the latest Megan Fox flick for the production values

2) After a “premature” performance failure with your partner, you tell her/him you’ll fix it in post

1) You thought, “Yeah, so?” after reading any of these

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