Aaron Cadieux
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Pat,
You’re foolish and dumb. What a dumb idea. Get a life! (haha!)
-Aaron
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Grinner,
That’s great advice. However, this project was not related to his place of business. I produced a basketball sports highlight reel for his daughter for college recruiters. I’d have to pay a visit to his home.
-Aaron
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David,
The final product was delivered alomost two months ago. He owes me $420.00. I know that’s not a lot of money for most of the people on the Cow, but for my small business, it’s a nice chunk of change.
-Aaron
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Eric,
You’ve asked all the same questions that I wanted to ask about CS5. I am going to wait and read the reviews before I decide to upgrade. All I know is that Premiere CS4 SUCKED.
Best,
Aaron
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Hey John,
Interesting you put it that way, becuase I don’t seem to remember ever asking about music copyright in the past. If you can dig through the archives and find a previous post of mine regarding music copyright, I’d be interested to read it. If you want to “persecute” me for using “persecute” instead of “prosecute”, go right ahead, but to call my question stupid is insulting to my friend. After all, his livelihood is at stake.
Watching someone like you post a statement without doing his homework is a bit of a spectator sport for me.
-Aaron
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Minor in whatever you want. Business is probably a safe bet. In the real world, nobody really cares about your educational background so long as you graduated college and have an impressive demo reel. In this business, you could be a Satan-Worshipping-Neo-Nazi-Puppy-Kicker, but as long as you have an impressive demo reel, you’ll get work. Wherever this business takes you, just remember to not let anyone walk all over you. Make sure people pay their bills too. There are a lot of dead-beat clients and employers out there.
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Thanks for your opinions on this guys. I’ll leave this thread at that as to not start an ethical/moral debate on the cow.
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Mike,
My boss is paying me. I am a salaried employee. I just thought this was a unique situation. I am a video production specialist. I do video production for my bosses. I am not a graphic designer, nor do I pretend to be a graphic designer. I just think it’s unfair that my animation is now going to be used as a logo for the print-end of this direct-buy campaign. It’s not like my boss came to me and said “Aaron, I need you to design a logo for X”. It ended up being “Aaron, the client wants to use the animation you did as the logo for X. Make me a high-res file of it to send to the client”. Meanwhile my boss is going to send a heafty bill the client for the creation of the logo when it was my idea and creative effort in the first place. The client never even asked us to design a logo, it just happens that my animation makes for a good logo. This whole thing just strikes me as a unique gray area.
If my boss asked me to take a time out from video production to go out and cut his grass for him, would anyone tell me that I am not entitled to additional compensation since I’m his employee? Where does one draw a line?
Best,
Aaron
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Mark,
I appreciate the advice you were going to give me. I actually am trying to get away from wedding/event videography. I know it pays well, but I don’t have the stomach for it. One avenue that I am pushing lately is sports videography. I have been getting lots of phone calls for high school athletes that need recruiting highlight reels for college coaches.
-Aaron
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Nick,
Yeah, you think on the same lines as me. I discussed this w/ the cable company and told them my target demo was women 40+ who were technologically inept. hahaha.
Here’s why I chose to market DVD transfer serviecs. I was hired to edit a show that will be airing nationally on DirecTV this spring. I am working at a reduced rate, so as a perk, the producers offered me free advertising. I get to run a 30-second spot every episode. There are 13 episodes, each airing twice for a total of 26 showings. As a result, I needed to produce a spot that could bring in business. The only service that I offer that would work nationally is DVD transfer services. Not everyone needs a video produced for their business, not everyone is going to hire a freelancer from thousands of miles away to shoot an event, but EVERYBODY has old home movies lying around on tape and/or film. And most of those people woudn’t think to have the movies transfered unless it was suggested to them (like in a 30-second spot). Once I had the spot produced for DirecTV, I figured I should look into running it on local cable as well.
Best,
Aaron