Patryk_Rebisz
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You let your daughter work for $2/h?????????????????????
Horror Stories & Shoots from HELL
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You let your daughter work for $2/h?????????????????????
People don't just try that crap with newbies.
Years ago, I agreed to provide audio post for a season of a cable network series. I was three degrees removed from the network. The production company that shot and edited the series had hired another company to take care of audio post, but their ProTools guy was booked so the owner (with whom I had worked before) called me to take the overflow. It was one of those jobs where I needed a system upgrade to take the job, but the job would more than pay for the upgrade, so I went ahead and got what I needed.
I always invoice with the standard Net 30 payment, unless the client requests (and I agree to) otherwise. No "otherwise" was requested here. 13 episodes and a handful of invoices later, no check. By the time Net 30 had expired on the last invoice I was starting to get worried, so I started following up first by email with no response. A trail of phone calls and emails, explaining that terms outside of Net 30 should have been specified up front, finally yielded the explanation that he wasn't going to pay me until the production company paid him, and that wasn't going to happen until the network paid the production company.
Then the bombshell: a good friend of mine who worked for the company emailed me to let me know the guy was moving out of state and would be leaving the business - essentially abondoning it and all of its debts - with a couple of his employees. We both agreed the whole thing was fishy, and I made one more attempt to pressure for a check. Then my friend called to tell me that the guy had read through all his employees' emails and had seen our conversation. He was pissed. Apparently, he yelled and made threats that he'd punch me in the face if he ever ran into me again.
But... he finally sent the check right before he moved. I have not seen or heard from him since.
mainstreetprod
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She's 21, so can do as she wants. I did make it clear when she took the job that chances are she would never see the $1000 payable after release of the film, she would probably only get initial $200. She was OK with that as she really wanted footage for her reel. And at her stage $200 is big money.
mainstreetprod
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Yes it's confusing and I did leave out an important point. Even though she didn't send him corrected footage, at one point she did send him many of the LUTS she used so he could see how the footage was looking (at the time he raved about how great it looked and did so right up until the billing). So he could take those and use them should he decide to be a real ******.
I had a guy I worked with for a while who used to praise me up and down, tell me how great everything I did was, etc. . .until any time we disagreed, then it was "Well, I think that's just your opinion Josh, and you're not that experienced." We have not seen each other in a while.
rsbush
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Where was the director for all this?
Efexone
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2 short stories:
1.
I shot an event for a major brand - was on my feet running around with DSLR and a few lenses for about 10 hours straight dragging around a tripod I didn't need. the on-site "creative" spoke in riddles, no meal breaks, no real plan other then "capture everything". not my first rodeo but this sucked way more then usual, enough for me to reflect my path in production - never again.
2. Hired to shoot an agency new business pitch - shoot was easy but was super hungover and didn't get any sleep. Endured 12 hours of agency people repeating the same lines in camera with different inflections. the same lines, over and over and over. I died a little that day.
1.
I shot an event for a major brand - was on my feet running around with DSLR and a few lenses for about 10 hours straight dragging around a tripod I didn't need. the on-site "creative" spoke in riddles, no meal breaks, no real plan other then "capture everything". not my first rodeo but this sucked way more then usual, enough for me to reflect my path in production - never again.
2. Hired to shoot an agency new business pitch - shoot was easy but was super hungover and didn't get any sleep. Endured 12 hours of agency people repeating the same lines in camera with different inflections. the same lines, over and over and over. I died a little that day.