My question involves employment and labor law for the state of: CA
So I am having fun trying to determine what qualifies something as an "artist profession" (falling under the Professional Exemption which allows for exemptions for learned and ARTISTIC).
Would someone involved with doing color correction for TV and film qualify as "artistic?" The only directions the person is given is to make the film look "good." With that the individual has to use graphic software to edit and touch up the way the video looks. Sometimes it is a simple process of creating and applying the right filter. Most of the time it involves going scene by scene and touching up the colors in various points (ie, you might lighten objects in the background so they are more noticable, darken a characters face because it is too bright, and perhaps edit out something in the background). Anyways, I hope that is enough info to work with. If not, what are the right questions I should be asking to figure this out? Thank you.


