Paul Patton
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What, like the goad in your previous post. As I really don’t think you would like my response. i am trying to make the best of an already screwed up situation,(by the people originally given this task, that did nothing but sit on it for 2 month’s). And put together something I can be proud of.
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as professional staff your salary is probably considerably higher than classified staff, (Grunts) in case you don’t know what classified staff are either. as I know our salary difference is rather considerable.
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well comp time here is a joke. you either take it of orj ust plain dont get paid. if you have it you are supposed to use it before vacation time. and are only allowed to carry over vacation time at a max of 240 hrs. at the end of year. So either way I loose. You can work all you want but when you decide to use it the paperwork gets mysteriously lost. i will probably wind up in the chancellors office next week. As the next 2 administrators that this project started out with continue to drop the ball. as far as any extra help that also is a joke. i dont’ have authority to take care of discipliary problems we have with current student workers I have and going to my immediate supervisor has done absolutely no good. So if I tell them to do something and they don’t its my butt. depending on students for anything of this nature will result in bigger problems because of this lack of support. I can count on 1 hand the number of student workers I would even consider giving a job recomendation, and this is in 7 years.
the problem with this video project is the reason I originally posted this question, It has gotten worse since then. -
I am a telecommunications technician. In the field of videography I do event videography, I have done 1 documentary of an annual event that occurs in my area. and then I was given numbered still images, for sequence. video footage with timecode of footage that would possibly be used. an outline of what was wanted in the final product. and a script for voiceover talent.So At least I had guidelines on the flow of the project.
I was given this project because I am the person on campus with exposure to the video industry.
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Leo I apolgize for my bruntness to your response and sounding rude to your response.
thanks
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thanks for the reponse this is more of what I needed to try and fix/salvege this production. The budget is $0. Others are calling the shots and want creative control, I sent out a closing piece for review, and they want half of that piece changed. i have already voiced my opinion of the time I need to work on this, to no avail. The weather has not cooperated for anything outdoors. Am trying to get any and all indoors/class stuff, hoping weather will break, so I can get exterior footage. The interviewee list changed thursday, with 3 additional. read my last response for more info
And I apologise to Leo if I was sharp, I have never failed at anything I have done, but feel this time through incompetence of others I am being setup for this to fail.thanks
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can’t hire outside source. I can see having extra footage to work with but not what I am getting. As far as overtime I work fro the state. you supposedly recieve comp time that if you work comp time you are supposed to take off Immediately after working it, which is impossible. YOU DO NOT GET PAID. I have found that top level person only yesterday. failure or throwing up my hands is not an option. You take 8 people and divide that by 10 minutes which was the initial length of the finished product, you only have approx 1min 15 sec. per individual. They have put people in charge that have no concept of what needed to be done and in what order, consequently I dont have all the interviews yet and probably wont have for several days if not longer, at least a week on 1, which will put me past the deadline for completion. They were supposed to setup a perso for intro, voiceover for a period of time that they cannot get their original interviewee and for closing. I talked to this individual last night and he knew nothing about it. They just know that it we can produce video. i am shooting bluescreen, for interviews, to use changing sceenery for background.
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1.no, i have not waited, 2. I am not responsible for setting up interview just shooting them and editing. And the number of people to be interviewed keeps changing. the people responsible for the initial concept knew of this production 2 months ago. I am shooting B-roll stuff as fast as I can. the interviewees have been totally unprepared, the interviewer has not preped them as to what they are looking for, so I am getting repetative statements from each interviewee, each individual saying the same thing 3 or 4 times. it is supposed to be 15 minutes in length total I already have 46 minutes of interviews. and still have 3 inteviews to do. each interview should have been less than 3 minutes not 12 to 14. One does not even live in this area, they are trying to get him to find someplace he can get to shoot his statement and mail it to us. Also this is not the only thing I am required to do in the course of my workday, so time is even more limited. Someone disposed of stills from when it was a tech school so finding someone that has the past pictures may be nonexistant. and why would it not be story boarded before hand, so that you know what is expected in the finished product, this would seem to lend to a whole lot of my concept versus what they actually want. and unnecessary editing which is time, I don’t have, which is already happening. You can’t pull footage out of thin air. you also need time to see if you have usable archival footage, and very little of what we have is already digital. what i currently have in interview footage is very boring, so I have to figure a way to make this more interesting and showcase the campus at the same time, both past, present and future. The interviewer questions cannot be used as he was so thick tongued a questions sometimes took 2-3 minutes, for him to even get out of his mouth.
No prep at all on the front end is what I hear from you is required to do a professional commemorative promotional video.
paul
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Read my post above for some of you answers. I was given this task 1 1/2 weeks ago with an initial deadline of mar 1. this has been extended to mar 8. I really need information as to the proper proceedures for this type of production from someone other than myself to show what all has been done wrong up to this point, to try and prevent it from happening again. i don’t need a whole lot of unnesecary questions as to who, what, and why ect. dealing with irellavant information.
paul
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They want interviews from 4 current instructors, that have been there for a long period of time, 3 past presidents/chancellors. show the growth from tech school to community college. Showcase as much of what we offer as possible. And the future growth/ ambitions of the college.
This is for 40th anniversary to be displayed during 2 events and also to be used for promotional purposes after the fact. any outsourcing is imposible. I am a videographer/editor. i am taking input from a committee. I really need the proper sequence of events from inception to editing phase, of a project of this nature, from someone in the field professionally, to show the powers that be the way this project should have been handled, instead of the way it was handled. As well as an appropriate timeline or timeframe for such a project. Which I know for a fact is not 2 weeks. There has been no storyboarding, no scripts, no prepared staments, no advance preperation, even in setting up the interviews, not shotlist. But yet the powers that be want to control what the final product will look like. i am an employee of the institution, and this is one of those all other duties as assigned portions of my job description. My job title is telecommunications technician. i do a broad variety of things.