Tucson Promo Video Controversy

cjwolff

cjwolff

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An article was printed in the Arizona Daily Star this morning that created a great deal of controversy.

Apparently Hillman and Carr, a production house out of DC, was retained by a consultant to the City of Tucson government to produce a short tourism video for $820,000.

You can watch for yourself at http://videos.azstarnet.com/p/video?id=4607399

Other than a brief helicopter shot this seems like a pretty high cost for a tourism video. Not to mention almost all of the shots are outside of Tucson. The local city council is running like cockroaches from this fire.

It seems to me that this production team are experts at delivering a value proposition and we could all learn from them, especially local teams that are absolutely livid about not having the opportunity to keep the money in the local economy.

Thoughts?
 
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LOL HOLY F-ING S--T!!!!
That's about 3 zeros toomany; take out the ariel shots and some hard up local yocal with a 5D could have done something cooler looking for 4 zeros less LOL. Poor tax paying citizens :( Hope some heads roll behind that piece of crap.

On the flip side:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: to the producer that pulled that off!
 
What the hell did they think they were going to do that takes nearly a million dollar budget? And can I get these guys to help me with fundraising? Wow.

Maybe for that helicopter shot they couldn't find one to rent so they just had to buy their own.
 
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It's one thing to bring in the pro's from Dover, but holy freaking cattle dung. :shocked: $820,000? Figure in travel, and that thing probably cost MAYBE $15,000. Tops. It didn't even promote anything, just pretty pictures and music.

Are they taking bids for a second video, and where do I submit mine?

Off-topic, but is that a real P90 in your avatar cjwolff, or an airsoft?
 
Mike Harvey said:
It's one thing to bring in the pro's from Dover, but holy freaking cattle dung. :shocked: $820,000? Figure in travel, and that thing probably cost MAYBE $15,000. Tops. It didn't even promote anything, just pretty pictures and music.

Are they taking bids for a second video, and where do I submit mine?

Off-topic, but is that a real P90 in your avatar cjwolff, or an airsoft?
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For $820,000 I should be able to hire the top 5 DVXuser pros for two weeks and keep them in hookers and blow :shocked: and end up with an oscar for best short...

Yeah that's a real P90, whether its with cameras or firearms its still shooting :kali:
 
cjwolff said:
For $820,000 I should be able to hire the top 5 DVXuser pros for two weeks and keep them in hookers and blow :shocked: and end up with an oscar for best short...
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For $820,000, you should probably also be able to cover the legal expenses for when the good time causes the neighbors to call the cops too :)

Yeah that's a real P90, whether its with cameras or firearms its still shooting :kali:
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Very nice... I thought briefly about getting a P90 (a friend has one along with an FS2000 and loves them), but I'm saving up for a SCAR 16s instead. FN makes some good stuff.
 
Mike Harvey said:
For $820,000, you should probably also be able to cover the legal expenses for when the good time causes the neighbors to call the cops too :)

Very nice... I thought briefly about getting a P90 (a friend has one along with an FS2000 and loves them), but I'm saving up for a SCAR 16s instead. FN makes some good stuff.
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Check this out ...

http://hkpro.com/forum/showthread.php?t=106584

I'm an H&K fan but I could see myself enjoying one of these too! hah

The P90 is a lot of fun you can't go wrong with it, and still reasonably cheap
 
Yeah, a couple of friends have 556's... I definatley wouldn't complain if someone gave me one. :beer:That 10.5' looks like it would be way too much fun.
 
this makes me want to puke that I would have charged $500 day rate and produced the same thing minus the really awesome country music.
 
Well I doubt there's a user here that would turn down the ducats if they were offered the same deal. It's all about networking.........
I'd assume a good portion of the 820 went to payola for a gig like this. Still it's a butt-load of cash.
 
Looks more like a land development promo than a city promo.

Any connection between the city commissioners and the production company? Kickbacks?
 
Full marks to the marketing people at the video company. I'll hoist one to them this evening.

Perhaps local production companies would have had a better shot if they would have charged more. After all, if its priced too low, it couldn't possibly be any good!

So now when a client wants to know how much for a fifteen minute video, I can show them its normally about $800k but because I like your concept, we'll do it for only $750k. Hey that's like fifty grand in savings! What a bargain!!
 
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