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he seems bitter. lol
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Mandy.com is your friend and so is productionhub and the job forums here at the COW.
I moved my family to five states in as many years at one point, just salary-climbin’. It was required as the bread winner of the family, starting at the bottom as we all do. With the birth of every new child, I simply had to have a five-figure raise. All of these jobs were found on Mandy.com or by cold-calling destinations of choice.
I use to interview at places I knew were not going to hire me at my salary requirement or current experience level just because I knew they’d remember me years later when it would be realistic for all parties involved. Such was the case with The Nashville Network. I applied as a director in ’91 and cold-called em in ’95 when I found out we were about to have our first bambino. I started a week later as a staff editor and moved from Dallas.
Her maket will have a local productin guide. Call every production facility and post house in it. Simply state your experience and why you are moving to their market. Your moving on your own dime will already be appealing to them (I have always had to have the employer spring for our move) and you’ll get your foot in the door. Once ya do, don’t stop doing homework on the hot spots in town. -
I use to make tv spots and hand em over so they could buy air time or I’d play middle man in that media buy and still really just make money from the production. Today, I can create turn-key campaigns and get paid for all of it. I like the new world.
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Mine is real simple. If the gig justifies it, I buy it. If it doesn’t, I don’t. I write no business plan because the plan is to evolve with the industry. I study no cases as they have nothing to do with my clientele and workflow. I think too many folks see this as a business and perhaps it is to some. If it were for me, I’d dress better and dislike it.
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It’s fair when you are both happy about it, man. Giggle like ya think she’s kiddin’ and wait for her to call back with a reasonable offer.
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I use to just loove it back in the linear daze when the client’s client would come in on a friday after a week’s worth a post with a timing change in the 2nd minute of a one-hour show. It was usually a thumbprint. Something that would allow him to tell his wife how he produced a show. This is why I started using the dead dog technique in the mid 90s.
Still use it today.
I give em one obviousl thing to change in a show, tell em how much they rock then send em on their way feelin’ all proud. Meanwhile, I’ve usually already dubbed the version without the dead dog.
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awesomeness.
As audio editor I use to work with at CMT had a dead pod on his mixer. He’dd let the producer hop back there and manually “tweek” themselves. Maaaan that was funny to watch em close their eyes and dial it in juuuust right. -
When a client wants to meet in person, it’s a red flag to me that they’ve not done this very much. As a result, if I have not gotten half down at that point, I do then. Pre-productin for I do doesn’t take more than telling me the concept, the call time, the deadline and the budget. I realize this varies dpending on the production but people call me for reality/documentaries. I don’t need to converse the a special effects guy and I don’t care how they did it last year. I sure don’t want to watch what they shot last year. These meetings either place me on the clock early or they weed the gig. I simply sat through too many of em pretending to listen over the years to continue that practice.
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The answer is it depends on your relationship witht hat client. It is quite the norm to charge a half day. I can’t see anyone getting bent out of shape over that. Charge a full day and you are dancin’…again depending on the relationship.
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The best thing to do is to create bins per project as needed and drag media from your interplay window into those bins. It does not duplicate media… just creates new references. With permissions and such, you can see how easy it would be to create a mess by opening bins from other projects in other rooms. Not a huge no no as long as everyone is on the same page.
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gold.