Bill Dewald
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Or cue up some old “Hannity and Colmes” clips.
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Rather than doing a traditional advertising spend, have you considered putting the 10K to a promotional project?
Find a track you have a great concept for and go ahead use the money to make the type of video you’d want people to hire you to make.
If the band is small enough, perhaps you could even contact them about having it be their official video.
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I think we answered it just fine, buddy.
She should pay her editor weekly. He editor makes $50/hr, so that’s a very fair $2K/week.
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A real loose rule of thumb:
Take the amount of raw footage that you have and multiply it by 10. That will get you to a rough cut.
Then two to six weeks of polishing, depending on how polished you want/can afford to make it.
Then once you lock it, you’ll need to do the technical process of color/sound mix/final output.
This is why most editors on a long form doc do a weekly rate.
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I was in the same situation as you – I took about four semesters worth of general classes before I got to really sink my teeth into the film program at school.
I took a lot of art and humanities classes, and a bunch of them ended up being film related. I took an “American Studies” class on Disney, another on horror films, a class on New German Cinema, all outside the film department. I took “Rock and Related” in the music dept., as well as a few recording classes. I also took classes on business law, government administration, journalism, theater, and I took golf as my gym class.
If you have a choice, defiantly choose a gym class that would otherwise cost money. Don’t take, like, jogging. You can jog for free. Take swimming, at least. Or bowling.
The other thing you need to do in the next two years is narrow down a career goal from “produce/write/shoot/direct any type of video.” There is no way to chart a path for that type of career. You need to imagine an outcome that you’d like, and then figure out a series of steps to reach that goal. Otherwise you’re just spinning your wheels.
It’s good to dabble in all the software you can. Don’t worry too much about mastering it – it will all be different once you graduate, and if you’re not using it all the time, you’ll just forget it anyway.
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Cool. Google’s sharing seems similar, and it’s $4.99 a month for 100GB with a 10GB file size limit (I guess I have a legacy plan.)
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2494822?hl=en
Is there a benefit to spending 5x for YouSendIt? (sorry if that sounds snotty, it’s an honest question. I’ve never looked at alternative services…)
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I pay $2.99 a month for what’s now 56GB of cloud storage on Google Drive. Max file size is 10GB.
Is that comparable to YouSendIt/Hightail?
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Right on. I know how that feels, working for a low pay gig, you’re grinding hard for months, and this “discuss my future” bit feels like light at the end of the tunnel.
But the reality probably is that at $150 a pop they’ve set the expectation for video costs and it’s probably not going to quadruple/sextuple into a living wage for you.
This thread is the current mode of COW thought on the matter.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/17/878466 -
As a “recent grad” with little experience, you’re worth $150 per video to them. Of course you have a “good business relationship”, as you work for peanuts.
The way I see it, if you ask for anything over say a 25% bump, they’ll be on to the next recent grad. They come out every year. How’s $200 a video sound?
Bank this work for your reel and use it to get your next gig.
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Amazing story. Here I am, sitting in an edit bay, working on “Barter Kings”.
Wednesdays on A&E 🙂