Rebecca Gillaspie
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Hahahaha. Just saw this on Craigslist –
You too can edit a feature for an award winning female director who’s gonna give you lots of direction about how to edit her feature in 8 days (including digitizing!) for 550 bucks – paid via PAYPAL upon completion. Check it out!
Haleluja they’re looking for a miracle!
Becca
Experienced Professional Editor Needed (Los Angeles)
Need an editor to edit a feature film about children sharing the gospel. Must be a wiz @ FCP and know how to edit fast. We like dissolves and child friendly transitions. Must be able to take direction from an award winning female director. Must be able to edit entire film, including the beginning and ending credits, color correction, placing the music on the film, and placing the sound from the sound designer down, beginning and ending credits and laying music for credits.
We edited our last feature film in 8 days, the same needs to be done for this one..Must be able to work efficiently along with the director. Film shot on 24p 16:9 anamorphic…We are looking for family friendly editors who have family friendly reels….do not submit or send us a reel which is not G or PG rated…thank you….Editor must be mobile and have a deck / 3 chip camera, laptop, hard drive and all equipment they need to properly edit film in a timely manner both in Orange County and La County….The majority of the time will be transferring the footage which is on eleven tapes and about ten hours of footage….this film will play on television next year as part of the Children’s Family Film Series….Serious inquires only, must be able to start this week….Please include your phone number, a min of three references which we can check today, a link to your reel, type of equipment you have and your location – Orange County or La County. Must be able to transfer the edited footage back to mini dv tapes after editing is completed ( as we need a 24p version and a sd version). All editors must be able to sign a work for hire agreement and be paid through paypal after film is fully edited and transferred back to mini dv tapes and all footage given to director, Thank you very much for looking and responding to the posting.
* Location: Los Angeles
* it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
* Compensation: IMDB Credit, Film Credit, Copy, $550.00 -
8500 is what we used to chage for corporate video abut 3-4 years ago. It’s a competative market though. If you’re wanting to spend three days, that’s kind of low. And you have to incorporate time for multiple cuts and the client changing their mind. Budget in some time for project management expenses. And try to cut it down to one full day of production.
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Sure if craigslist jobs were people that were taking the time to teach somebody something. Usually they’re looking for cheap labor for menial work, OR they’re looking for a young bright person to do their work for them (meaning they’re not qualified to do it themselves and cant teach someone else).
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Good Post! I’ve had a lot of incidents with things being misinterpreted via email. It’s very tempting to use it as a communication tool to those around you when you spend all of your time on a computer, and also serves a great distraction tool.
Less is more.
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Craigslist makes me mad! I just can’t even grasp the concept of hiring people for nothing. I know I wouldn’t be able to count on them.
I see a lot of people get away with things either by paying people under the table, or offering a “stipend” or what not.
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Great video Mark. I agree. For me dangling the carrot has never worked, it’s probably distracted me, and when you pull out the stick, it makes me resent my work. The best motivator is to let me do what I want to. And when working with a team, I always try to divy things up based on interest and strenghths.
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“Mark Suszko – Now, do I get paid as if I’m three or more distinct people? No, not here; I’m salaried, and I get paid the same no matter what I’m doing or not doing. It would be very hard to put every function I do on it’s own time clock and punch-in and out as I change functions. I don’t live like that.”
I don’t really expect to be paid twice as much. It’s more a time thing. You can’t expect the producing and editing to get done in 1/2 the time. It’s impossible.
Here’s my world. I get a bunch of stuff handed to me on a hard drive. Maybe a five minute overview of what they want, a “Go get em’ Tiger” speech, followed by “Thanks so much, you’re amazing.” I’m expected to produce, cut and online a finished piece, with let’s say 3-5 hours of media for a polished 10 minute piece within 3 days. No transcripts, no script, no direction, you get the idea. Sometimes, I even have to add in research time to acquire stock footage.
Because I’m not involved in the front end, I’m not there to see to it that I get what I need for post, so I have to make due with what’s there, which is probably more time consuming then if I had been involved in pre-prod in the first place.
A large part of this is my fault for underbidding and acting like an over eager puppy dog in the first place. I established a very bad precedence working 80 hours a week with a smile on my face to get a steady client in a rough economy, and am pretty much burnt out. By the time I started speaking out it was too late. I can’t tell them they can’t have what they want. They don’t see why not, they got it before, they know I”m capable.
I don’t really think there’s anything I can do, but suck it up till something better comes along and NEVER put myself in a lousy position for peanuts again.
Basically the point of this post and what I’m getting at, is that if you’re wearing multiple hats, you have to budget accordingly based on what it takes to complete each task. Even if it’s the same person doing several of them.
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“I’ve been a “Preditor” for about 10 years now and it’s great in the sense that I can do everything if needed…”
That’s how I operated best in the past. When I’m at a production company, I use my skills mainly to be able to communicate with people in their language and step in the edit bay only as needed. (Meaning there’s a time crunch, or the editor just isn’t delivering what I want.
In that sense I do have an edge. But knowing how to do several things and actually trying to do them all are different realities.
I have to quit wasting my time on low budget crap where I work twice as much to make my rate, so I can be in a position where I can hire the right people to crank quality material out in an efficient matter. It’ll take a little patience on my end, because I may not bring as much money in at first, but the way I’m working right now is not sustainable.