Scott Carnegie
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E-mail on a smart phone is handy, plus texts when you are at the event and need to communicate
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“since I don’t shoot on actual film ”
This was my rule as well, and I still don’t say I am going to “film” something unless I am using film, which I never have. I usually say record or shoot, because saying “I am going to SD card something” sounds silly. BUT, I recently made a short for a film festival, a short what? Well, it was shot on HDV tape, so I made a short tape? No, it was a short film, in a film festival, so I am a filmmaker, not a tapemaker.
I think we need to move away from labeling ourselves by the acquisition format we use.
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I don’t look at it as what format you are shooting on, but what you are doing with it. You can shoot a short film on an iPhone, you are a filmmaker, not an iPhonegrapher.
Wedding folks are usually called videographers, people that shoot “films” (regardless of aquision format) might be called directors of photography or cinematographer, someone that makes a film (producer/director) is a filmmaker.
None of these are hard and fast rules of course, unless maybe there is union stuff involved where certain roles ahve to be defined.
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Ditto.
Plus if I was the post house and had the knowledge that a project I was working on for low/no payment had these potential legal problems I would stop wasting time on it until the producer cleared everything up.
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It will vary greatly depending on the broadcaster and the type of show. NBC paying for Law and Order will cost a lot more than Spike paying for “1000 Ways to Die”.
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Google Docs, spreadsheet
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YouTube has removed their length restrictions.
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I am going to disagree with the folks that say “don’t”. Screw that, take a risk, jump out there, don’t let fear of failure hold you back.
Firstly, get a business plan, without that you are headed for trouble. Take some business courses; this is a business and you do yourself harm by not knowing how to run one. A lot of it will come from experience, talk to people (like those on this forum) that have done it before, learn from their experience.
“Should it just be divided up evenly?”
NO!
The day will come where one of you will be doing most of the work on a project and the others will be bitter that they have to split the profits evenly even though the workload is not even.
Perhaps have a per project percentage basis. So Jimmy will produce project A and our producer rate is X%, Susie will edit it and the editor rate is X%. Jimmy brought the client in so he gets the finder fee of X% of the final budget. That way people are paid based on the work they do, so if projects come in that only require one person you can decide amoungst yourself who will tackle it.
As for those personal projects like shooting a wedding, if you are using your companies gear and resources then do it through the company, but person A will make the money since they are doing the work.
“how do you start finding clients?”
Networking! With the business community and most importantly your peers. I get jobs from other video companies because either I have met them at an industry event and they liked me and my work or I hired them for a gig and they recipricate.
Be nice, be honest, be professional, do good work, don’t cheap yourself out by doing work for free or next to free. Look up the article “Clients or Grinders”.
Read read read about how to run a video production business. Take other media professionals out to dinner and pick their brains.
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“1) He could make me an offer for compensation”
For what? What did you do besides send some e-mails? Drop it and move on.
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” if you want to bring an action against someone for violating your copyright, it has to be registered.”
I don’t know if that’s true, it certainly makes it easier to prove your claim thought.
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