Aaron Cadieux
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Oh duh, sorry. I’m an idiot.
I run Windows XP Pro.
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I run Adobe’s Production Suite Premium package with Premiere 2.0.
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Herb,
Thanks a lot for your support. A critique of my spots would be greatly appreciated.
Just a little background. The first 6 spots were done at my full-time job. I did 90% of the shooting, all of the editing and all of the graphics from scratch for those 6 spots. The last two were produced by my freelance business. The bar spot at the end is my least favorite on the reel, but I included it as a cheaper-end spot. Here is the link.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mBWrClepmQA
Again, thanks for your support.
Best,
Aaron Cadieux
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Mark,
Thank you for actually responding to my original post. You make a number of good points. I welcome the criticism too, and you’re not offending me at all. I don’t mind being criticised when it is relevant to my reason for posting. I don’t even mind criticism of the web site. It just seemed that the web site was all people wanted to focus on even though I had re-posted the spots elsewhere so that people could view them.
I’m not really a “web” guy, so, like you, I’ll be hiring someone to re-do the web site when I can scratch together more money.
It seems to be a tricky business. You don’t want to give the client too much more than they’re paying for, but at the same time, you don’t want the spot to look like crap, because it ends up being a poor representation of your capabilities. It’s like a balancing act.
Again, thank you for actually adressing my initial post.
Best,
Aaron
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Thank you very much. You’re the first person to actually answer my initial question. I appreciate it.
-Aaron
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The first six spots I produced for my full-time employer, and I am not consulted on what to charge clients, so I have no idea what my bosses charged for those. For that Assisted Living spot, which I did outside of work, I charged $600.00. But that was my first contracted job, and I wanted to get the work to have the spot for a demo. I am new to doing cable spots, and I need to know what I can fairly charge people for a spot of that quality.
As for the bar spot, that was a freebee for a friend, just so I could have another spot for the reel. Thanks for you input, it is greatly appreciated.
-Aaron
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Ok, let me see if can get you to understand my logic.
If you had responded “I looked at your commercials, and you shouldn’t be charging more than $200.00 for any of them, because they ‘suck'”, then I would have been fine with that, because it is relevant to my original post.
Unfortunately, egotistical “professionals” (who actually use the word ‘suck’ and or ‘sucked’ in a professional forum) like you are more interested in criticizing than anything else. This is what you did.
“Hmm, since I have a MAC, I can’t seem to view this guy’s videos”
“Oh well, I might as well tell him that his web site sucks”
“Oh look, he put his videos up on YouTube instead. Well, I’d better not respond to his original post. Instead, I’ll keep harping about his web site, because I love to criticize people, especially when they are not asking for my opinion about what I am citicizing. While I’m at it, I’ll give him a lecture on the unprofessionalism of posting on YouTube, even though it’s the world’s largest online video resource, and professionals across the globe use it to post their work. Wow, I am so much better than everyone”.
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Let me go through this again.
I posted on this forum looking for feedback on how to price commercials.
Then all the Mac users started to complain that they couldn’t see the videos.
So I posted them on YouTube so that people could see them.
Then, people like you are still harping about the look of the web site when that had nothing to do with my original post.
I could understand your point if I had posted in a “please critique my web site” forum, but I didn’t. Once the commercials were up on YouTube, all discussion about my web site (whether it ‘sucks’ or not) should have stopped. When I’m looking for feedback on the fonts and color scheme on my web site, I will let you know.
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Well, you can explain your theory to the production houses that encode movie trailers SPECIFICALLY for YouTube, and to all the presidential candidates whose professional videographers/editors all compress video specifically for posting on YouTube. Like it or not, YouTube is used by the professional community on a regular basis.
It’s amazing. I ask for feedback on something specific and all I get are critiques of my web site and lectures on ‘professionalism’. Creativecow is great most of the time, but sometimes it’s like banging your head against the wall while being surrounded by a ‘holier than thou’ mentality.
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The spots are now on YouTube.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mBWrClepmQA
Now you guys can avoid the site.
Thanks.
-Aaron