Just when you've seen it all

At first it didn't make sense. And then I read the shop name which suggests it is for charity and it made sense (like auctioning dates at charity balls). And then I noticed that 10% of the sale goes to a legitimate charity. A charity giving 10% to another charity? If the shop really was a charity surely it would have something in its shop description. But it doesn't and so it doesn't make sense again. I wonder if the 7 and counting suckers/bidders believe they are bidding for charity?
 
I thought it was for charity at first too, but it seems it's not for charity, but less than 10% of the bid will go to a charity. I'd be ok with this if it were for charity.
 
I kind of want to bid $60, show up acting like I don't know anything about film making and hang out in the camera department and pretend to be as stupid as possible. I'll ask them the most basic questions pretending to not even know what a f/stop is and at the very end of the day, I'll start talking about the use and design of dual floating aspherical lens elements to help eliminate chromatic aberrations, eliminate breathing and reduce exposure vignetting due to the law of reflection. I'll drift into a conversation about cmos bayer pattern sampling, maybe mix in some LED lighting unit color spike observations, and wind down into a rant about the aesthetic differences from geared head nodal point tilt versus the lower fluid head tilt axis. Then I'll say, '...or something like that', and go home.
 
Or just liberate something worth $60+labour :tongue:

But then again maybe it would be worth it to someone who was curious without aspirations. If it was a kickstarter/indiegogo reward I'm sure many would take it up if they were conveniently located. After all people will pay $4500 to go live with a 3rd world family in a mud hut with no running water for an adventure holiday.
 
Actually, you have to pay for shipping, to ship yourself to the set. I can't believe it's up to $200 with 5 days left.
 
I'm not impressed that 10% goes to charity. That means, at $200, the charity gets $20. Woo hoo, that's a load of cash right there! :shocked:

Why would anyone be impressed by that?
 
I don't know, if I were in LA I might do it for the experience, if you have no experience then why not? You can look at it as a marketing/resume expense. I recently paid a lot of money for catering and other expenses for a photography portrait party at my house to help build my photo portfolio, cost way more than $200, probably close to $1500 when considering extra equipment rentals, food, and preparing the house for a party in general. If you already work in the business then of course it is ridiculous but for others it may be worth it. It is not easy to find work without experience and a portfolio.
 
I would say that even in LA you can find PA jobs where you work for free or paid a little without having any experience. There's no reason to pay that much for something where you're going to be seen as a nuisance if you get close enough to really be able to learn anything.
 
The funny thing is if you look at the other auctions by this seller - http://www.ebay.com/sch/auctioncaus..._Tickets_all_in_one&rt=nc&_trksid=p4340.l2562

There are walk on roles and premieres and other things related to the movie you can win. I guess it isn't a bad if it works - but cat you do the same with kickstarter? I guess it is the scarcity that creates a bidding frenzy? I IMDB'd Brit Morgan and this movie didn't show up.

I guess you do what you have to.
 
I can't believe some people are supporting these actions. All I see is a slippery slope. Already lots of productions are taking advantage of how much people want experience by having 15 positions for non-paid interns. Immagine if they could make money on these positions.

This is wrong no matter how you put it.
 
they are just raising money though, it is not as if they are going to get much useful work out of non-experienced people walking-in. Thye have to hire people to do the real work who know what they are doing.
 
Ryan Patrick O'Hara said:
I kind of want to bid $60, show up acting like I don't know anything about film making and hang out in the camera department and pretend to be as stupid as possible. I'll ask them the most basic questions pretending to not even know what a f/stop is and at the very end of the day, I'll start talking about the use and design of dual floating aspherical lens elements to help eliminate chromatic aberrations, eliminate breathing and reduce exposure vignetting due to the law of reflection. I'll drift into a conversation about cmos bayer pattern sampling, maybe mix in some LED lighting unit color spike observations, and wind down into a rant about the aesthetic differences from geared head nodal point tilt versus the lower fluid head tilt axis. Then I'll say, '...or something like that', and go home.
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