Chen Wu xin
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first,
the work i do is nothing special, its not great but pretty good. there is nothing i do that you haven’t seen before in good quality mid end corporates. Although I try my best, MY work is not the issue in the original spirit of my initial post!to inspire a fellow creative, a fellow artist, to feel that there is a spiritually rewarding future in what we do when they felt otherwise.
THAT WAS MY INTENT!Showing you my work without supporting documents such as invoices and contracts is useless with respect to the reasons about WHY you want to view my work. Especially if you choose to believe cost and quality must go hand in hand. (i use foamcore instead of reflectors. would you like proof of their quality as well??)
The minor and inconsequential claims I made about choosing lower costs freelancers were so innocent, inert and innocuous I’m wondering as to why everyone is making such an uproar about it. to imply that they are spurious and to go so far as to suggest i am cheapscate, or that i do not exist!! this is insane. (Ned Miller wrote to me, ”I see no evidence on the internet of your existence. Please advise”. Who the flipping hell do you think you are!!!!)
do you people always dispute the trivial claims of posters who declared they received a quality product or service while not paying the highest price without proving it somehow.
second and much more importantly
HOW DARE YOU!!how dare you press someone for information which they explicitly communicated they deem private!!
And you professionals?? Maybe. But at this moment you are acting like school yard children!
I am a sole proprietor, and work with one other individual full time.
my video work is hosted on my business website. because I’m a sole proprietor my business website contains MY home address where my children live!!!!! the phone contact number on my website is MY home number MY cell number and fax number!!
In my initial post I did not even mention the city in which I’m currently working on a show specifically ABOUT the city I live! ie ” – a one off x52min about the awesome scale of statistics in my city” because I chose to limit my personal life info.
In addition, there is no signature with my URL under my posts! NO! Because I HAVE CHOSEN NOT TO!
IF I CHOOSE NOT TO EXPOSE THAT INFORMATION HERE THAT IS MY CHOICE.
My choice!!!! Not yours!!Maybe I do not want my customers / freelancers / on screen interviewees / on screen talent/show guests i use to search my name only to find that am openly discussing a deficiency of mine or discussing their business with me, including possibly sensitive financial information such as the rates they charge!
this was thread marked first time i posted on the cow. I was hoping to continue in the future to get help or offer useful, helpful, nurturing inspiring posts. If I were to write in a future post, ”… I have shoot tomorrow, I would like advice on such and such…”, then the world knows Wu Xin is not home today, let’s break into her home”.
I’d like to post without worrying about whether or not I am leaving my personal life open.
last time i checked, creative cow provided some measure of anonymity for its users.
If you cannot understand, then I’m sorry you!! Feel free to party like its 1984
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[Ned Miller] “Dear Chen,
Where can we see these programs you have produced so we all know what we are talking about here? I see no evidence on the internet of your existence. Please advise.”
No thank you, i take my privacy very seriously,
If Creative Cow would like verify my existence, the email i address i used to sign in with contains my business website URL. My business website contains my phone number. If Tim Wilson would like to verify and post “Yes, he does exist”, Tim, feel free to do so.
Sorry Ned, privacy is sacred, people put WAY too much information on the internet.
Besides, i’m almost 50, have two kids. You think i have time to twitter away?
Cheers
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[walter biscardi] “That’s the disconnect Tim. Laser focused incredible talent is out there, but turning them loose on a project is something I would have a hard time doing unless they are just one small part of a large team.”
Again, you are choosing to isolate a few words to make your point, but are missing spirit of what Tim W. was writing about.
we are not talking about the people we hire to come in and produce(project management)a production on their own, that’s my job!!! Just its as yours, as the head of your company.
When we hire, we are hiring individuals to perform specific tasks. Who can get the job done.
most of us agree we hire on personality, quality of work, and work ethic, regardless of age. The quality/cost of work directly relates to the work being assigned (project management 101)
And sorry i’m not going to hire the best boom op who works major TV/Hollywood caliber productions for a talking head gig.
I’m not going to hire the Maya guru to do a simple title.
I’m not going to hire Todd’s Fantastic Plastic to come in with HMI’s and an e35 cinema camera package to shoot a locked off, medium close up of a customer testimonial.
I’m going to go the with people who do a great job, and of course cost is a factor!! If they are young, so be it, if their rate is low, awesome.
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OK, perhaps I was being too colorful and enthusiastic in my hope of trying to save a creative individual. The last thing we need in this world is less art.
How’s this
and when i need extra hands like a:
– boom op/sound recordist
– graphics
– a second camera (b cam,jib stabilizer etc)
– production assistant
– or any extra help
…THEN I HIRE PROFESSIONALS FROM THE APPROXIMATE AGE OF 21 TO 32 WHO CHARGE ON AVERAGE A THIRD OF WHAT THE LOCAL VETERANS IN MY MARKET CHARGE.Gentlemen
Sometimes it helps to ignore the ambiguity of a few words and embrace the intended spirit of the message, and then nurture that spirit with energy and enthusiasm!!my intention was to show the poster that a good production does not always need a huge crew, a huge budget or the most talented people, and that he/she can continue to tell colorful intriguing interesting stories and create a good watch! and hell hopefully continue to make a living while doing so?
Does having the best people help? sure. But…I’ll listen to an old cassette tape boot leg of a Beatles gig before I listen to a Justin beeber CD, even though the beiber tracks possibly employed the finest, trackers, mixers and mastering pros in the biz, not to mention studio musicians.
My old cinematography teacher, a former head of the canadian society for cinematographers, also use to lens for the CBC (Canada’a BBC). He used to regale us with stories of skeleton crews, and nagras with reels erased and used a dozen times, and machine ops who were asked to edit once a month by producers under the gun of the deadline.
And these docs, just brilliant! All story!
Walter, I truly admire you and the work your company has done, I’ve been following your career for as long as it has been public on the internet, probably I guess from the beginning of creative cow, and your blog has its own column in my news reader app. (great ed. on CNN BTW)
If recall correctly, Good Eats, first season, didn’t have the greatest production value. At this moment I can’t recall if it was the video that was blown out, or audio that was distorted on an episode or two, (god, I hope its not MY dvd copy) anyways my point is, someone had the idea for a great show and they did it.when the masters were handed into the food network, it still aired, even though someone at quality control probably said ‘hey the audio is 6db in the red’
But it aired cuz it was good tv!
Please, never tell a fellow creative (especially someone we don’t know personally) that they ‘can’t’, or ‘shouldn’t’ produce something because they can’t afford the best people.
cheers
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‘cheapscate’?!?
wow, not really, its called being economical! Staying competitive.
why pay the 50 year old videographer 700 to shoot a talking head, when a 24 year, who has a quality reel and comes recommended, will do it for for 240?
Do you call all your potential clients who go with the cheaper bids than yours, ‘cheapskates’??