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please see my previous post above also. i just forgot something David Roth Weiss. In my experience customers want it on there time. If I tell her that I can do it on my own time with a cheaper rate, what if she walks. Do I let her walk? this is very confusing, can’t wait to gear up for another venture in the future.
This video production industry is looking more unstable as the weeks go on. Thanks Dave.

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they have shot the footage i think home video style by amatures with consumer cameras. Don’t think they would have any creative, so i would probably edit stuff on the fly, like the story, soundtrack, voice over, graphics, and intro extro, ftp and upload to the web site and social media sites (what are these formats?)
how much should i be charging for a job like this 8 x 2min episodes? and also should i do a flat or an hourly? I usually do a flat with her but this is a bigger type of job. But every time I do a flat I always put in alot of free time and when i do ask for more money the little that it is, she makes a fuss then it takes 3 months to get paid. Even if the bill is $300.00. Any suggestions? I just don’t want to spend 10k to go to school and mess it up with a low budget job, but I understand what you are saying (money is had to come by).

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I need the money, but have some money put away for tuition. I will probably not get a student loan. So you guys think I should charge an hourly for the 8 x 2min vidoes? also do you think its a good idea for me to say i can do 1 or 2 of the videos and don’t commit to the whole thing? I start school in june 20, i would like to do this job but every time i deal with this client it’s never on schedule, that seams to change only when she drops the ball. I also have kids and school runs from 7am-7pm then come home put kids to bed then, just dont want to deal with a pain client at that point. Or maybe there is a way for me to finish before school starts. I don’t know what to do, I want to thank all of you for being good to me on this site.

she says she wants to know my availability for next week on a phone message, then her email said she wants to know when i am available for a meeting at my studio next week. i sent her an email and said tuesday is good. Does this mean that she wants to come over and talk about the job or does she want to dome over and start to cut? I don’t know to much about the job yet. just that they need 8x 2min training / travel video episodes for the web and social markets.

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“Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity! ”
this has nothing to do with creativity bud, i’m setting up a server to upload and transfer files that I would manage.

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what do you mean by this?

“Film and video has only been taught since when the late 1960s or so, about the time the phrase “copping out” was coined. ”

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Been speaking to 5 com-tech teachers in my area. 1 says he does 85 hours a week, the others say when they finish all the lesson plans for the first semester they use the same lessons for the new batch of kids for the second or maybe modify a bit. Most of the work is hands on during class time. They shoot, edit, photoshop, storyboard….and so on, during class or the at home. The teacher passes around a hard drive and then looks and grades them on the finish product. I think there maybe a lot to take home at the beginning then after you do this for a while it sounds like it gets easier. I don’t know that’s what I hear.
I just don’t see 85 hours a week, i see maybe 50-60 or so if your involved in extra stuff like yearbook and plays. Any of you guys considering teaching com-tech in high school?

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in Canada, teachers start off at about 40-50k per year. Then you would have to take 4 courses, one per year and then over the about 6-8 years your pay goes to 90k per year, plus benefits and retirement plan at about 50k per year. man this sounds good to me anyway, The scary thing, I don’t know what our industry has to offer over the next few years, it’s getting really hard to plan a life doing it full-time.

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I am thinking about this myself, it seams that there are a lot of grinders out there. in my area there are post production houses paying the same rate as they did 10 years ago and if you don’t want it they would find someone to fill the position. i have been at some high schools and they are learning what I did in college 10 years ago. So just wondering what this industry has to offer in the future if it’s going to be taken over by kids and the people who have lots of experience would be out of work because the rate would be to high.

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thanks guys i think i would take option 1 try harder and stay away from griders is the new rule for this year.

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thanks just wondering, they said they don’t pay for overtime and he would like to keep it at a 40 hour week. one day 10 hours the next day 15 but at the end of the week it’s 40. Is overtime over 40 hours at the end of the week or beyond the 8 hours per day. thanks for your help, doesn’t look like I would do anyone a favour with blood and time. At the same time the market starting to suck out here and there are a lot of grinders, what is one to do?