Post-script to "SAG Waivered & On-The-Job Training". . .

I've decided I won't be getting into SAG this way -- though I could, and many people do.

Getting into SAG has a lot of pluses, esp. if one is doing A LOT of background work, however . . .

. . . while right now it's educational, after a while it won't be, and the SAG-rate, while nice, just isn't worth it -- for this reason: becoming a member of SAG automatically excludes one from the (non-SAG) growing independent film scene that's springing up all over the county and especially on both coasts. Independent films are becoming better and better produced and acted, and the opportunities are only growing. JZ recommends waiting until one needs to join SAG in order to do a SAG project.

It's interesting that all this came up now -- just last week I signed up for a couple of seminars at actorfest 2005, which is coming up in couple of weeks. One is about Pursuing The Indie Film Scene and the other is about SAG, AFTRA, Equity union representatives "The How's, Why's, and When's of Joining the Unions." I had a hunch these seminars were going to help me understand and address some issues in the future -- I just didn't think part of that future would arrive so soon . . .