Dangers of Renting a Green Screen in Los Angeles

1. Dangers of renting a Green Screen Studio in Los Angeles. Below are some important questions that you may want to consider before renting a pre-lit green screen stage in Los Angeles. Think carefully as you answer… • Are you given budgets that don’t allow for ridiculous hidden fees and outrageous overtime charges from studios or any other location? • Ever wonder why film studios charge you for their employee sit there and “run” the stage when just about any other business that I know of includes their employees’ salary in on the cost of goods or services. Isn’t that like paying a parking lot attendant his hourly wage plus the fee for the parking space? • Does it seem a bit convenient that the studio owner tells you due to insurance reasons you must rent all the gear from them? Who the hell made up this BS rule? Btw, it’s a lie. • Do you not understand why any service-oriented business would charge you for Internet access that they already have? When did they become an ISP and don’t you need a license for that? • Have you ever asked a studio owner “How much does Xerox copies cost” as if they were a Kinkos? • Ever wonder if the studio owner had to max out his or her credit card just to make the production happen? • Why would there be a last second emergency or rush fee to filmmakers? As if we could afford the time loss. They really want to charge us more in an emergency? • Are you just plain tired of hearing what you cant do for the same price and how much more everything cost if you want your show to be better? • Have you ever felt as if the stage owner was doing you a favor renting you his or her place even though you were paying full price?

2. • Does it seem like studios owners don’t give a crap about repeat business? • Does it seem like studios owners don’t give a crap about repeat business? If you answered, “YES” to any of these questions, I have some relieving news for you… The news is that you are NOT alone. In fact, that list of questions above was created from my very own experiences having shot/directed/produced almost 50 of my own shows not to mention the many hundreds of productions I have worked on that are owned by friends/clients. The funny thing is that I never even wanted to be in the green screen studio rental business at all. Truth be told if I could have found a filming stage that even pretended to care about how much money I made, I would have never took on the huge responsibility of “movie studio” ownership. I just like many of you was fortunate enough to get the green light on a few projects and of course the budgets were a joke but I had to get my foot in the door some how. It’s no secret that getting more productions under our belt helps us get more jobs. That’s the idea anyway. So if we aren’t going to make a decent amount of money for all the work we put in at least we should walk away with a quality production as a sort of business card or part of a demo reel. Right? Having a good demo reel would without a doubt lead to more projects. Right? For the rest of this story checkout the video at www.atomicstudios.com or read it in the about us section of our site.