BIG Predicament

MattinSTL said:
I rarely visit this section of 'user... but I'm glad you stuck it out. Every cash gig I've ever done has had potential deal-breakers and ridiculous personalities involved. This experience will go into your idea file and also better prepare you for the next time you deal with somebody like this.

Video cameras are freak magnets... if you become unflappable you'll become unstoppable.
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Thanx. I totally agree!


"Video cameras are freak magnets... if you become unflappable you'll become unstoppable. "

I'm stealin' this for my facebook status! lol
 
I have to be honest that while I'm working with almost any client I want to kill them at some point, not literally, but I basically find the whole experience to be very frustrating almost all of the time. I can only think of one shoot that went really well because the band member was so appreciative he basically didn't ask for a single change, but that's not always good either -- I welcome feedback and criticism that leads to the work being even better. I just don't welcome stupid feedback, which happens. I've gotten things like, "Why couldn't there be a light coming in from the windows on both sides? It's not lit evenly because I thought there would be that light from each side." *pause in the editing room...* "Uhh because the sun only comes in from one side in the morning because... there's only one sun." *pause* "OH, haha, yeah, ok yeah that does make sense." I slap my forehead and just want to pull out my hair.

Then corporate clients who often frustrate you because you do your best to bridge the gap between industries, and explain how your process works, give them checklists, try to answer questions, and then the shoot day comes and they just basically make it impossible to do your job or think you're going too slowly because they didn't realize there is setup time for shots before you get them. They think it's all handheld reality TV or something, I guess.

Honestly I love film work, I love shooting great footage of just about anything, it's fun to direct corporate work, music videos, commercials, shorts, whatever. But working with clients is something that takes a level of patience that I'm having to develop. It takes all of my strength not to tell them what I actually think, and to be extremely diplomatic instead, because I need the work and I want to establish a good reputation. I know it's not intentional on their end almost ever, it's just still no less frustration when we all have situations where we feel mistreated.

This thread is just an extreme example, haha.
 
Glad you got through it. I was going to suggest what they did on Cyborg after a certain Belgium "actor" blinded one of the stuntmen during a rehearsal, film the rest of the film with a double, really long shots and from the back. Than just smile when the actor at breakfast wonders why he doesn't have a call time for his major scenes.
 
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