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First off, I negotiate it ahead of time so there is no fuss. At a minimum, they have to pay my expenses, including hotel, some decent meals and some fun money. If I am working (meetings, waiting for them, etc,) I charge my usual rates. It might cost them more for me to sit in Iowa in January than Vegas. But the important thing is I negotaite ahead of time as part of the whole job.
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Thanks Mark,
It’s a new client, and this is a “trial” project. I want to do simple, cheap, effective. Its a small plant, with only a handful of processes. But evidently the students have a lot of interest in the technical details. I could probably shoot it in a day and then add a narrative. But this will insure that I have enough of what they (students) want to see and hear. It may even end of with some simple animation.
I didn’t mention the tour because I thought that would confuse things more, as people told me how to shoot a tour…
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Well Mark, thanks for the extensive reply. But it is a great solution to the wrong problem. The half hour segment being prepped for video is a plant tour. Right now they use PP slides, with some instructor explanation and a ton of questions. I just want to do a video tour that covers all the common questions and information. Rather than sit down for hours and days with the instructors to develop a script, I thought we could record audio and use that as the basis for the script. Then we will go shoot video to support whatever the final script looks like. It probably takes a 30 minute live q&a presentation down to 12-15 minutes, with much better organization and visuals than is currently provided. Then they can still ask any esoteric questions not covered by the video.
My question was whether this was a viable way to develop a script, if anyone had any warnings or gotchas about the process, not whether the project should exist. (I ask that FIRST). But thanks for trying to help.
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Our thought is that by recording three different Q & A’s , we should get all the Q’s and have a choice of best A’s. A few answers may need some polish. But we will not have questions in the final script, just information. (I think?)
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The DVX book is available thru Amazon.
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Audio & video are Bibles of sorts. For shooting, it really depends on where you are and what you want to do. But Elite Video has a good DVD program called Advanced Broadcast Techniques, you can usually find it on eBay pretty cheap. That is as good a place to start as any for a newbie I think.
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The people who make SnagIt also make a video capture tool. I forget the name. No wires, no camera, it just captures your screen activity directly into an AVI or MPG file.
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It depends on what you want to learn. DV overview? Documentaries? Commercial projects? Super-cool home movies? Music Videos? Feature Films or Shorts? This is a complex and time consuming world, and no one book can even scratch the surface. Start with three, a video book, an audio book (Jay ROse), and a lighting book (John Jackman). My library is up to 25 or so right now.
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You can also appproach it from the other end. Get a range for their budget, then put together the coolest proposal you can that fits in that range. In truth you can do a music video for $500, but maybe not what you or they want to see. You can also do one for $500,000. So see where their thinking is, then wow them with the proposal, maybe even some “spec” samples. When you actually do the job, WOW them even more.
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My guess would be that since your project is in 24p, it has to do the 2:3 pulldown as it prints to tape. Rendering every 1/2 frame takes a while….