Just Jennifer

I just lost a gig and I’m glad for it. A friend of mine, who had a friend, who had a hobby that he was sure he could monazite if he only had videos to sell, contacted me. After several back-n-forth emails, “well, I can’t pay you now, but you can have part of the profits…” …  “No, if I do all the work, YOU can have part of the profits…” etc. he finally agreed on a minimal fee of $150 per shoot. The editing along with DVD authoring and burning would be negotiable.

We shot three segments, but then got into the discussion of what he wanted for these stories. He didn’t want to edit out any of the 2-hours each segments, including the fluff-ups, … “oh, my… those are funny… the audience will love it…” …  “Uh, no, they won’t”… And he didn’t want to sit down and log the footage, “Just make it work…” So I edited the first one, gave him a nice clean DVD with pretty cover design and he took it to his next show and sold… one. For $3.00. Which the viewer returned a few hours later and demanded her money back.

My soon-to-be ex-client called last week and said, “Never mind, I don’t think this is going to work…”

Whew. Now back to that wedding-video-from-hell project that doesn’t want to transcode correctly for the DVD burn.

grrrrrrrrr….

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