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Notes From Post: Your behind the scenes guide to film and television post production

A place where those who work in Post Production can give notes instead of receiving them. notesfrompost.substack.com

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  1. Issue · Aug 14, 2026

    The Week Ted Lasso and Spider-Man Both Gave Post Production Its Flowers (opens the original)

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    You Can’t Cut The Film You Wrote, Only The Film You ShotWhat if the block you have been stuck in for months has nothing to do with your skill, and everything to do with the fact that you are still trying to cut the film that lives in your head instead of the one that actually exists on your timeline?This week, for the first time I can remember, a mainstream director stopped to spotlight the work of post on camera. And an assistant editor got invited to sit across from the guys behind Ted Lasso a

  2. Issue · Aug 4, 2026

    The Lie They Sold Us About "Breaking In" (opens the original)

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    What if everything you were taught about making it in this industry was designed to keep you exactly where you are, broke, desperate, willing to take the next gig at whatever price, thinking just one more gig will get me to where I want to go? After all you got into this industry to be a filmmaker and you were told networking was key and the best way to network was to get on set. We were sold the “ideal” but they knew it would never actually happen for 95% of us.By the end of this article I want

  3. Issue · Jul 14, 2026

    You’re Allowed to Be in the Good Old Days (opens the original)

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    This past weekend I did something I haven’t done in a long time. I disappeared.My girls and I packed up the mom van (I love my van you can judge all you want 😜) and drove out to a campsite with no wifi and no cell signal. The kind of dead zone where your phone stops being a portal to everything wrong with the world/film industry and goes back to being a very expensive flashlight.And for four days, I didn’t know anything. I couldn’t check my notifications or be anywhere but completely present, in

  4. Issue · Jul 7, 2026

    Millennials Were Sold a Film Career That No Longer Exists (opens the original)

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    Everyone is talking about the great millennial career crisis right now. But nobody is talking about what it looks like inside the film industry. Because inside the film industry, it’s a different story. Gen Z filmmakers are building audiences, funding their own work, and going direct to viewers, while many of us who have been doing this for fifteen to twenty years are still waiting for that “big break.”I want to talk about why that is. And I want to be honest about something I have been resistan

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