[Greg Ball]

Thanks Walter, but I’m looking for someone who did an actual gig on a cruise ship.

Greg Ball, President
Ball Media Innovations, Inc.
https://www.ballmediainnovations.com

[Greg Ball]

We are Allan Patrick LLC llc Romania looking for professional Video
Hi Ned, of course it’s fake. Here’s the letter that I received a while back. Take note of project part 2. Sound familiar?

Production Company to Film Our incoming event which 15th,of March
&16th

1.]Project Part 1: To film all the presentations of speakers
between 12pm and 2pm over 2 days in Film in South Florida , Capturing
the audio and any Power Point slides (if used).

Project Part 2: To produce a short behind the scene style event
highlight video of the 2 day event. To possibly include Vox Pop
style interviews with either delegates and or key speakers.

Waiting to read from you soon Pls email us.

Greg Ball, President
Ball Media Innovations, Inc.
https://www.ballmediainnovations.com

[Greg Ball]

Thanks Grinner. I’m not sure what you’re referring to… the lawyer fees or the client.

Greg Ball, President
Ball Media Innovations, Inc.
https://www.ballmediainnovations.com

[Greg Ball]

Ned, I had a lawyer develop my agreement. But I don’t think I need to pay again for that one clause. I would probably settle before going to court anyway.

Greg Ball, President
Ball Media Innovations, Inc.
https://www.ballmediainnovations.com

[Greg Ball]

Mark, I thought this may be better.

“In the event of your cancellation of this project, or any delay of more than two months, we will invoice you for the greater of either: 1) all work completed up to the date of written notification, including expenses; or 2) 25% of the advance deposit made for this project. All work will remain our property, but will be available if the project should be resumed at a later time.”

What are your thoughts?

Greg Ball, President
Ball Media Innovations, Inc.
https://www.ballmediainnovations.com

[Greg Ball]

Hi Ned, there was nothing as far as costs to bury. There was never any discussion about a “kick off meeting”. This was a simple shoot interviews and b-roll for a small property management company. There is no HR, PR, Corp Comm departments. The other funny part was that this realistically was a 2-day shoot, however the client who didn’t have a clue about production, and told me this by telephone, INSISTED on a 1-day shoot. I gave them the agreement for the 1-day, but in the agreement I said that after 1 day, we will notify the client if an additional day of shooting is necessary, which of course it would be. I can only imagine how they would have handled that.

For the boss, I drove the 140 mile round trip, presented to him, showed him my work, and he hired me. There was ZERO value in driving back there for a “kick off” the project meeting for this type of video.

Greg Ball, President
Ball Media Innovations, Inc.
https://www.ballmediainnovations.com

[Greg Ball]

Nah…not a big enough project. I’m gonna add contract cancellation language into my agreement for now on. Thanks so much for your advice Terry.

Greg Ball, President
Ball Media Innovations, Inc.
https://www.ballmediainnovations.com

[Greg Ball]

Hi Todd,

Yes we have a formal agreement that they initialed and signed. The one caveat is that it only indicates payment for cancellation of the shoot within 48 hours as billable. But are you saying that regardless I could keep the deposit? I’m not going to in this case, but would I have a leg to stand on in your opinion/

Greg Ball, President
Ball Media Innovations, Inc.
https://www.ballmediainnovations.com

[Greg Ball]

Thanks for your responses. So now the client has cancelled the project over my request to charge them for driving 140 miles round trip for a pre-production meeting.

Here’s their letter. I’ve removed the amounts for obvious reasons. Any thoughts?

As per our recent emails and conversation, thank you for taking time initially to propose your services for XXXXX. While were initially very impressed with your presentation, qualifications and experience, we are not comfortable moving forward from this point with your services. We had requested a face to face meeting at our office to “kick off” the work and we were promptly notified of an upcharge of $XXX for you to attend. This sent a very unfortunate message regarding the future working with you.

We did provide you, per the attached agreement, a deposit of XX% in good faith in the amount of $XXXX. Please remit a company check in the amount of $XXXXback to XXXXX by Friday, April 1, 2016.

Greg Ball, President
Ball Media Innovations, Inc.
https://www.ballmediainnovations.com

[Greg Ball]

Thanks Guys, I never bill for phone calls, but to travel 140 miles round trip just to show my face is really a strange request. I really haven’t done any work yet and do not have kill fee in mu agreement. Perhaps I should moving forward. May I ask how you calculate your kill fee?

Greg Ball, President
Ball Media Innovations, Inc.
https://www.ballmediainnovations.com