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Posted by Steve King on 04/16/06 21:15
"Bob Ford" <imagesinmotion@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:12:14 -0700, "Richard Crowley"
> <rcrowley@xpr7t.net> wrote:
>
>>"Bob Ford" wrote ...
>>> BTW, are you really sure you want to get into wedding gigs?
>>> I shot stills of weddings for many years and it was bad enough back
>>> then but the way society has changed.....are you really sure you want
>>> to put up with "Queen for a Day" and worse yet, HER MOTHER!
>>> I wouldn't touch weddings with a long pole and in my 20+ years in
>>> video I think I have taped 3 and those were all for personal friends.
>>
>>And some of us go so far as to become distant from friends
>>who are planning weddings. Anything to avoid that burning
>>hades of video production genres. Apparently Mr. Ford has
>>more social sensibilities than some of us. :-)
>
> Last time I shot stills of weddings was over 20 years ago and our
> society was very different then.
> Once in awhile I would encounter a difficult bride but from the
> spoiled brats I see now I would only do wedding videos if I was
> starving.
> Short of that I choose to maintain some degree of my sanity. Just
> putting up with some of the retail customers we have in the video work
> we do now is bad enough.
> Bob Ford
> Images In Motion
> www.imagesinmotion.com
I feel the same way; however, I have a new respect for wedding video
companies. My video editor has been working with a wedding specialist, when
the guy is overloaded. This guy has it down to a science. He has an iron
clad contract, which details everything. He promises no quicker than 6-week
delivery after the wedding, for which he charges a premium. Eight weeks is
normal. If the customer doesn't deliver still photos by the contract
deadline, as an example, for every day late the delivery date is moved a
week. Half up front. Remainder before he turns the camera on on wedding
day. (Wish all my clients paid so promptly.) Budgets from $3k to $5k with
typically a half-dozen projects per year in the $10k range. He keeps three
editors busy at FCP stations. I mean that it is a real business. Not my
cup of tea, but his policies minimize the grief.
Steve King
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