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Bruce Bennett
March 23, 2007 at 6:03 am in reply to: another bid lost…what’s wrong

I find this thread very interesting and somewhat disturbing. I have a few thoughts/opinions that I would like to share. I don
Bruce Bennett
January 18, 2007 at 3:20 am in reply to: Need ideas/suggestions

I love Adobe After Effects. But like all video and graphics tools, the outcome is only as good as the user.

Here is a clip of a documentary created entirely in After Effects (I hired Rich Rubasch of Tilt Media). It “blows me away”…
https://www.bmmp.com/resources/ACUM-Cip.wmv

I would do an all day documentary on their wedding (tag along the wedding parties from morning til night). Videotape family and friends interviews, the ceremony, the dance, incorporate photos, etc.

Bruce
Bruce Bennett
January 9, 2007 at 1:46 am in reply to: I wish more people could understand this concept

I totally agree with you.
Bruce Bennett
January 9, 2007 at 1:45 am in reply to: I wish more people could understand this concept

Ahem, brother 🙂
Bruce Bennett
December 29, 2006 at 4:55 pm in reply to: Do you mark up your subcontracted services?

Mike,

I understand what you’re saying. For your case/example of spending 4 hours on obtaining/hiring a certain subcontractor, I bill for my “project management time.” For every project, I estimate and invoice “Producer/Project Coordination” hours for such things (teleconferences, client meetings, subcontractor production meetings, me sitting in the hot seat during post, etc.) and keep a log in MS Excel.

Since I am getting paid for my all of my time in all cases, does it still make good business sense to additionally mark up the subcontracted services?

Bruce

Bruce Bennett,
Bennett Marketing & Media Production, LLC – http://www.bmmp.com
Bruce Bennett
December 19, 2006 at 2:51 am in reply to: Do you mark up your subcontracted services?

So, I think this is what I gather overall…the same “Golden Rule”…
1. Find out the budget.
2. Perform all services at the highest level of quality for the budget.
3. Try to get as much of the budget as possible (with or without markups).

Agree?
Bruce

P.S. I write for video so grammar doesn’ count 🙂

Bruce Bennett,
Bennett Marketing & Media Production, LLC – http://www.bmmp.com
Bruce Bennett
December 8, 2006 at 2:40 pm in reply to: a good mass e-mailer

I just sent out my first emailed newsletter last week. I bought and used GroupMail (https://www.group-mail.com/asp/common/default.asp) for $100.00. It worked great.

It can verify addresses before you send your email out, sends out both
Bruce Bennett
December 8, 2006 at 1:59 pm in reply to: Who needs to provide liability insurance for a shoot?

JP,

I have a few clients that require $1 million general liability policies in order to do business with them. No policy = no business. Period.

Yes, it does seem to make sense that your client (the Producer) should have his own policy to cover you and all his other subs. But from my
Bruce Bennett
November 21, 2006 at 2:52 am in reply to: Receiving faxes on my computer

Thanks guys. I ended up going with Send2Fax. $7.95 per month with 100 pages per month. Good on-line reviews. Similar to Fax4Me. We’ll see how it works.

Bruce Bennett,
Bennett Marketing & Media Production, LLC – http://www.bmmp.com
Bruce Bennett
November 17, 2006 at 4:51 pm in reply to: Ideas for someone who’s done a lot?

Maybe on-camera interviews with friends, caretakers and family members. You could use photos, scanned greeting cards, wedding certificate, etc. as cutaways/b-roll to cover the diced up the bites you use. Also, I find that a great soundtrack with several cuts adds a lot of emotion/impact.

Bruce

Bruce Bennett,
Bennett Marketing & Media Production, LLC – http://www.bmmp.com

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