Nick Griffin
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Guys-
What strikes me is Olly’s spelling of “recognisable.” Olly, so far you only seem to have received advice from people in the United States and it appears quite possible that you are located outside of the US, hence not subject to the way laws in the US are interpreted and enforced. Not to say that it may be much different under UK or other systems, just that you should rely on more than these opinions. If there is money involved in this project seek local legal help. You may easily have less (or more) to worry about.
That, as said earlier, though, use this as a learning lesson for how to proceed in the future. -
LOL, Grin!
Then there’s the car salesman approach: “What’s it gonna take to put you and the misses into this 2-3 minute corporate video this afternoon?”
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Mark-
Thank you for sharing a number of great guidelines. When your “preachy” you have a lot to offer. -
Matt-
Check out “Internet Killed the Video Star: A Guide to Creating Video for the Web” from Aharon Rabinowitz. It’s from the COW’s master series and available here from the COW store. It may not be the “course” you’re looking for but well worth its modest price tag. -
Greg-
I agree with you, hence the caveat-laden nature of my post. Fact of the matter is, and as we’ve discussed here before, release forms are all about giving laymen the idea that they’ve granted a right which they can’t take back — because they’ve SIGNED something, or in the case of a posted notice, agreed to something, that basically says so.As I understand it (and sing along with me because you all know the words by now) “I’m not a lawyer, but my understanding is…” (OK, stop singing) … that permission can be revoked at any time. Not to say doing so wouldn’t produce a protracted legal tussle, but I believe that it can permission can be withdrawn, even with a signed release.
At best a sign would establish your intent to warn people and seek their tacit approval. Of course at worst it would empower a jerk or two trying to find the camera and get into its sight lines. On the feature where I saw this being done they had done a very good job of concealing the camera(s), probably for this very reason.
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Not sure of the legality of it, but I’ve seen signage used on very large-scale / wide shot feature film productions which reads in effect:
“We are filming here today and by being here you agree that we may capture your image and that you hereby grant your permission for us to use what we may capture. If you do not agree with this please come back tomorrow when our filming will be completed.”
Like I said, not sure if it’s legal, or even effective, but perhaps better than nothing.
Grinner – if someone is at a private health club on private property they may very well be NOT considered to be in a public place.
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Yea! And you kids get of my lawn!
C’mon. No answers guys?
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[Mark Suszko] “more people than you would have been complaining, I think.”
Or, as is the case with oh so many other things, most people are oblivious to crap when kept to moderate levels. (Especially certain clients. Doh!! Did I say that online?)
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First of all Mark, doesn’t everyone have scopes on the living room TV? OK, seriously. (I’m just guessing at the actual IRE level, but that’s what it LOOKS like without measuring.)
I don’t believe that this is a downconvert issue for a number of reasons. 1) I’m watching in HD. 2) The network’s promos which run in the show as well as national spots (not the ones rolled in locally) booth look fine. 3)The shows before (The Office) and after (Marriage Ref) don’t have the problem. 4) To summarize points 2 and 3 – the only video which looks bad is that of the episode itself, and 5) While I have little doubt that Comcast, our cable provider, is capable of screwing up many, many things and I’ve seen what you are describing, I don’t think that’s the case here.
Not having worked in and around broadcast in years, I am unfamiliar with how material is moved from LA to New York these days, or if it even still is. But in the olden days believe most shows I were sent via analog satellite to the networks in New York where they were played out to the affiliates at the scheduled times.
Taking that forward is it possible that at least two 30 Rock episodes were transferred West to East to an improperly set-up receiving server? Is it possible for one of the big 4 to have such a stupid error get through without being caught?
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[Graham Sykes] “operating on a rather small storage capacity”
Graham, there’s not much help that can be provided here other than getting a bigger server or renting more third party server space. The later is not all that expensive.
As to the vehicle for on-line “proofing” as you call it, many of us here swear by MediaBatch, a program developed by the Cow’s own Marco Solorio. Google it and watch the demos. Frankly after using it for a couple of years we, and our clients, couldn’t live without it.