presenting to clients or pitching new ones...???

heavyG said:
I 'hooked' my biggest client at a conference by showing them my reel on my iPhone - over beers at the end of the day. So yeah that happens.

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Here s a little story for ya.

3 weeks ago I was sitting in my suite editing. Saturday afternoon at 3.00pm.

Outside ...bish bash bang.... look out and down and there are cars all over the street.

I go down and my car which was parked has been innocently involved with three others.

One guy just avoided the head on with the drunk driver but he was spun into my car.

Whatever.

We ended up sitting on the fence (amongst the chaos and mayhem) having a chat and he asked what I did at some point. I told him and eventually got to show him a reel on my Android smartphone (because he asked to see it...not because I forced it down his throat).

I am in my office this weekend (Sunday) quoting his $100k production. He was a brand manager for some local and international products.

Show reels... take the opportunity and go for it!
It aint a competition about the best pixels , best gamma, best chroma ...but do make sure what you are showing ...is your best work presented best you can.
 
Presentation to a client

Presentation to a client

Firstly the client usually does not come to your edit suite so you have no control over what your footage is shown on but remember one crucial point...the client watches everything on his preferred screen so as long as your DVD is produced to a high standard it will look good anywhere...even if it looks crap to your eyes...he or she are at home with those gamma settings on their 4 year old LCD.
We all get hyper about how our footage is perceived by others but that perception is unfounded remembering if your super duper footage looks crap on his screen so will everyone else so you are not alone.
Other peoples LCD, Plasma and CRTs are something you have no control over...if your footage is good it will stand out from the crowd.
 
Take control of your own destiny whenever you can... bring your own gear.
I use my HUGE laptop... it's a Dell M2010 - eight speakers and a subwoofer with a 20" monitor. It weighs 18lbs, but is a showstopper. Never underestimate the power of audio... how do the Ipads stack up as far as sound? Before I got it, I used to bring in a powered monitor.
 
I'm with Shooter on this one - just use whatever you can, wherever you can.

Stop fussing over gear (for once!!!) & let the content of your work shine through instead of the resolution (or lack of) being the deciding factor. Clients & customers will eventually watch your work on a multitude of different monitors/TVs regardless & if your work really falls over at that first hurdle then you're obviously doing something else wrong anyway.
 
Hmmm, Shooter has a good point. Be ready to show something anywhere, anytime. I do like the idea of letting great audio help the sell but you never know what circumstance might avail itself. Content is key. If the relatively untrained eye likes your concepts, images and overall impression, they won't be so picky about pixels, gamma settings etc.

This may be a good argument for getting an iPad or something as portable. Business cards don't cut it anymore.
 
I agree with Shooter as well. I have all my stuff on my iPhone and can whip that out in a second at a coffee shop or wherever.

My question though specifically addressed the occasion where one could maximize the image quality and what others did to do that when the occasion permitted that to be possible.
 
Steve Kahn said:
....My question though specifically addressed the occasion where one could maximize the image quality and what others did to do that when the occasion permitted that to be possible.
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Thats a really hypothetical situation and in regard to "hardware"...certainly one I have never had the opportunity to do in over thirty years of presenting my work to clients.

I have always just optimised my media outputs. Its all one can do apart from having them come to a facility of your choice.

Maybe for a major presentation you could set up at clients location with top end AV equipment (Projectors, screens, audio amps and speakers). Doubt you will ever get the clients time, space, chance or $$$ to do so though.

BTW: Plenty of times I have commented crtitically on some crappy AV set up the client has...but they always know that is what they have already. Often apologising for it before hand. They are used to seeing past it. (Maybe they adjust and adapt)
 
As far as the internet pitch and viewing materials in the best possible light...

With the ubiquity of the internet I feel it would behoove us to understand how most internet monitors show footage and adapt a general plugin to make footage look the best on as many internet monitors as possible. All monitors? No. But the majority. Yes.

I have noticed on the four different computers I have watched footage on similar things (true for my small survey of 4 computers: 2 laptops, 1 desktop, 1 workstation) as compared to a properly calibrated REC709 monitor:
  1. blacks are stretched.
  2. colors are desaturated.
  3. some colors render web-wacky.
So to me I'm willing to throw #3 out the window. Web-wacky, is web wacky. There's nothing that can be done and it has nothing to do with the monitor. Sure, skin tones could be a little off. You know what? I don't care.

What I do care about is 1 & 2 and while I don't like my colors being desaturated behind my back what really bothers me is #1. The good thing is that I think both could be an easy fix. I just really wish I had a big data set that said that yes what I am seeing with 4 monitors is true for most of the displays out there. Then it would be a simple matter to crush the blacks, crank the saturation and have internet optimized footage.
 
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