On my last post, I talked about the different legal entities that you can consider when forming your production house and promised that this time around I would talk about finding space to set up your business.

I think that this decision is a judgment call because every business is started differently. While there are certain things that must be done and must be done in a specific way, there are also other things that have flexibility, you can do them however you need to or want to, in order to accommodate your situation.

The two situations I mentioned in earlier posts were; starting at home by yourself, with rented (If you so wish) equipment, juggling all the work on your own. The other was; renting space, buying equipment and hiring help to delegate all the work to. Ultimately it will all be based on the vision you have, but also it is important to keep in mind that you are not going to have all the time in the world to dedicate to your venture nor are you going to find all the funding you are going to need to splurge, therefore you will probably have to make sacrifices. …click here to read more

On the previous post in this series I talked about financing, this time around I will focus on the different legal entities under which you can register your production house. So I once again surfed the World Wide Web and discovered that most starting filmmakers begin their careers as independent filmmakers and in accordance to that, is how they set up their production companies; that is if they so choose to form one.

The two common types of legal entities that are usually used by independent filmmakers are: Limited Liability Company (LLC) and Individual/Sole Proprietor. I ran across a third one, and thought I should include it; it is the Doing business as (DBA). …click here to read more