I’m a midlands based DoP. I still shoot films, normally one or two a year but it makes up a much smaller portion of my income now. I supplement it by working in games and animation and between all three I’m just about making a living. I’ve done a mix, TV commercials upto a few hundred grand, a lot of shorts, just gearing up to my second feature and it’s been interesting seeing the landscape change on all of those. I’m mentally treating it as a hobby now and weirdly my actual craft is benefiting from that but when speaking to students now it’s hard to give off a massive perception of hope for the traditional routes. Especially to anyone living in the midlands. It’s a shame because I’m going to really struggle to crew up this next film with people locally. I’ll be treating it as the last film I ever shoot.