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[Trent Whittington] “1. How many cameras would you cover this minimum-maximum?
2. Would you ask commentators to do it live or in post?
3. How would you go about adding the line of scrimmage? I understand chroma-keying but it seems very difficult to get a good key on a football field. Any tips?
4. What broadcaster nfl graphics do you prefer? FOX? ESPN? NBC?
5. Can you suggest a place for the best sound effects and jingles for this type of thing”I’ve shot live college and NFL games and I’ve produced many PBR events that were narrorated in post. Based on that and what your are trying to do,:
1. 3 Minimum.
2. In post.
3. You’ll motion track the line to a fixed part of the field.
4. ESPN
5. sounddogs.com and DeWolfMusic.com
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It’s important not to look at this reality/first-person fad as crappy quality or no talent, but as as style. Styles come and go and tis fad as well. Right now, however, I can tell you fist hand that it was my saving grace this year. My shows became in demand not because of the low flat budget I could quote up front as a one man band, but because of the personal flavor they offer in the end.
I have no doubt that I’ll add more production value to my content as this fad evolves. That’s my job… evolve with it (or better yet, evolve before it and let it follow me).
Today, most client assume a vidiot can light something, lock a camera down and shoot flat video from the 90s. What they wanna know today is can this person (not crew) engage with talent and people who are not use to being on camera… from behind the camera while shooting. Laugh if you will but in these viral times, I’ve been asked if I can do “that youtube look”. lol
why, yes, yes I can. It’s as easy as walking with a camcorder and saying dude. -
tell Kent I said hey, Bill.
Mark, just so ya know you are gettin’ the best price, call VSG in St. Louis as well. I think they’ll wind up being higher than KETC but you’ll be able to feel like ya shopped around first. 😉 -
Most of my best friends started out as clients. In spending so much time together, talking about our families, life, evolution, aliens… lol
well, we become best buds after a while. This is what I mean when I say I’m in the friend-making business. Once it comes to this level, there really is no competition that can steal a client. After a while, they are simply goin’ to grinner’s.That said, man I once had a client call me back when they saw my invoice. It was a consuting job, designing a program at a college and they allowed for a certain amount of budget to be spent and my invoice was not that number. Ever have this happen?? They called and insisted I double the amount.
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Think of how much they’d gladly pay for a custom music video to a song written specically for them. Yuo can write it by asking them to tel you some stories about themselves, how they met, some highlights, ect. You can then get local bands to record these songs. On your end, it doesn’t have to increase much budget. On their end, man it multiplies the value of their video. Just another way to place yourself so far beyond the cometition that uses stolen elements.
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Congrats. I’ve not met many wedding video dudes who are not proud pirates. WEVA itself will hand awards to pirates. Carzy industry, that introductory to video world.
grab some DeWolfe music and then simply quote prices for protected music when someone requests a protected song. They truely don’t know better. It’s your job to let them know how much that will cost. Should they come back with telling you your competition will do it, simply explain you are on a higher level than that. Let them know your videos are great without having to resort to stealing anything. You can even tell em ya won’t steal any cake at the wedding either.
Really, the fact that your competition steals things is in your favor. Take the high road. Charge more. Tell em why. -
Blow it off and move on. If I understand correctly, you are waisting time and energy over 200 bucks. That’s an hour or two of billing with a real client. Focus on calling those guys, not grinders.
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One has always neede the other. That guy needed people to bring him juice boxes years ago when he was very busy and quite important. Today, I’m sure he’s more than capable of fetching some juice boxes for people getting work done.
lol
I had a client ask me for an EDL just weeks ago. Now, I’m programmed, as many of us are, to just say yes sir and fill any request. As I was about to brain storm ways to provide multiple EDLs, I simply asked “Is the Avid project ok?” Dude looked puzzled then just said “as long as I can use it later.” IN the end, he just wanted to be able to revise later, should that need arise. Nobody has mentioned to him that EDLS have not been the way to do that in a dacade or so. Poor fella. These are the folks that still ask for a chyron when they want some text on the screen. It’s not doin’ em a favor to not correct em. Ions later, they are confised about VOs to Dbeta to the avid to FCP when all they need is a freakin microphone.juice box.
I’ll wait.
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[Aaron Cadieux] “What do you guys do to get your money?”
I’d go get my money.
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Thats is what these forums are for. What wrong with lying about a relese though? Weel, aside from being dishonet, it greatly affects revenue… and eventually makes a cmpany have to lay off 120 people… at least.
I understand new software bugs. That’s why companies test before releasing. Good companies, anyway. The dice rolling I mentioned is the feeling of consumers as a result of Avid’s “creative” marketing. Kike I said before, they would have felt a burn just from the big downgrades they have done but trying to promote em as upgrades is what has led to what they are facing now.
You would have been hard-pressed to finf more of an avid Avid fan than me 20, 15 and even 10 years ago, man. Today, when they ask me to spend “just 10k” for an upgrade that may or may not get me to where I bought into when they falsely advertised Adrenaline, I do indeed feel like that is rolling the dice and I can’t afford to gamble today.