simeple answer to your first question.. throw a project in the hopper.
Part of why you avoid creative burn out is because you love it so much. The reason you love it is because you’d do it it on or off the clock. Well, the clock’s off. You can go wild.
enjoy.
I shot this last weekend with my sons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N8mGxLa_J4
It’s not a pilot. It in no way was shot with the thoughts of it yielding some sort of monitary profit. My boys and I simply had a blast, old school-style with the camera for an evening. Editing this was almost as enjoyable as the tick-gettin’ part.
We work like the dickens w hen booked, Lord knows. There is an art to learning how to take a day off when a day off shows up. They key, as with all arts, is to practice.

Some contents or functionalities here are not available due to your cookie preferences!
This happens because the functionality/content marked as “Google Youtube” uses cookies that you choosed to keep disabled. In order to view this content or use this functionality, please enable cookies: click here to open your cookie preferences.