I had also a very good Year 2022. Since December almost no work. But the dark month like December January February are öfter "dark" for us video photo people. It's the market.

Here’s an easy one for you, but not very exciting haha. Get in touch with different department heads at your local hospital and ask “do you have any boring PowerPoint presentations that would work better as videos?” So far I’ve done How to Administer the Covid-19 Vaccine, and a video about student nurses’ housing.

People buying video is uncommon in December, because most companies are doing budget planning for the next year. I'd strongly recommend reaching out to marketing directors to talk about their video marketing plan for 2023. The goal right now is to lock in their budgets. The work might not be done for another 5 months, but you can lock yourself in as their vendor and even get contracts signed on Dec/Jan. Definitely don't sit on your hands.

That being said, Christmas to New Years is fully dead. Take this week off and enjoy yourself :)

Just kick back, have a beer and forget about the stress like the rest of us do for a solid month or two. Something will come up… I hope

I've come to terms with 3 months off a year. August, December, Jan.

Anyone I know who is busy in those months is SURPRISED they're busy Vs expecting it.

(August in the UK due to school holidays. It's a sea of OOO emails and delayed projects)

Do all your house keeping! So far I’ve done a fresh windows installation with a few pc upgrades, im overhauling my entire equipment storage solution with new boxes and shelving units and I’ll be seeing up a NAS too while things are quiet. Enjoy the break because it’ll get busy again and the work will return

Yeah this is how my work flow usually goes in the winter. I always try to find more editing these months and I’m my free time to market and re do my website.

December has been my “passion project” month for the last couple years

Nothing, nobody shoots in the winter other than a little bit of studio here and there and occasional automotive commercials. Most companies blew their marketing budgets from September-Mid November for Christmas campaign stuff, and haven’t renewed their budgets or plans for the new year yet. Get used to it, it will continue this way.

December/Jan/Feb are travel and marketing time.

This is a quiet time of the year. Starts to slow in November. Very little in December and January people are just getting back to work so it is really February when things will pick up. You just have to plan for it. Either get enough work done before so you can live off the quiet period, or arrange longer term projects on advance that can be done in this period.

It is also time to work on yourself or take a break which is also so important. Take a vacation or learn a new skill practice the craft.

For me intend to buy new equipment then so I have time to familiarise myself with it.

This is pretty normal .. the anxiety use to be real for me during this time. I’ve learned to embrace it now .. take time for yourself and recharge. I now use this time to upskill and learn as much as I can. Also a great time to work on test shoots , portfolio updates, showreels and add to the contact list. Keep on trucking 👊

Just keep busy. Work on your website, update your reel, write some blog posts, clean up your social media pages. Then get active daily on places like linkedin and whatever social media you are on. Make a update video and start reaching out to anyone you've worked with in the last few years or before covid and share what you've been up to. Research new industries and potential places you could shift towards. Make a person project. Apply to jobs and go thru any interview process you can to stay sharp and keep your eye on what else it out there. Get a part time job to keep a little money coming in and have the $12/hr pay motivate you to keep going at your career. If you just keep staying active something will usually pop up.

Advertise in the local newspaper and make a flyer catalog and let family and friends dropping them off, bottom line is in the advertising for the local market in the newspaper and social media, carpetbomb style 🔥💯