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Posted by doc on 07/15/06 06:08
wow you'd never convince my crew to rent. they want to OWN everything. we
have two rigs with our sister operation and although we do tv broadcast (two
regular shows currently) medium to large nationally recognized events
including music (yuck - they're hard to work with - love the music but hate
working with them - they're all full of a lot of hot ballon air and are in
space most of the time) and the sister audio side does at least 1 to 3 high
end multi-audio mixes a month with 2 yamaha big channel portable mixers and
up to 3 dozen speakers (12" minimum) driven by up to 10 2000 Watt Crown amps
none of which (the audio side) makes a dime of net profit for our businesses
but drives the video business which is our principle bottom green liner.
on the vid side we use all panasonic dv proline cameras (don't have the 200
yet), a small sundry of avid software packages, gateway commercial dual core
and dual processor machines (3 of them now), all shure & sennheiser mics and
only carry $20K of debt.
every thing is moved in mini vans (used with our names on them) and all of
our crews in video are full time while all the audio crews other than ONE
key man are part timers who basically would work for free just to get to be
on the sets/stages and if it we had to pay them much more than $8/hr and
eats after every show (no booze at all allowed) then the audio side would be
a loss.
there ya have it - - and not bad considering we came back for a total wash
out loss in 1999 including loosing our home and my new car :o(
respectfully, from the loser himself,
drd
"Steve King" <steveSPAMBLOCK@stevekingSPAMBLOCK.net> wrote in message
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> "Martin Heffels" <mot@sneeuw.nl> wrote in message
> news:7oen52tkful6lbu6pnvrn91k3ug8etbmec@4ax.com...
>> On Thu, 4 May 2006 22:40:13 +0100, mv@movingvision.co.uk wrote:
>>
>>>What's so 'uncool' about asking who works with and/or owns what?
>>
>> Hmm, I usually rent or borrow the tools the tools. It's nowadays mad to
>> own
>> anything, because it will be outdated or out of favour to use, before you
>> know it :-)
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> -martin-
>
> I tend to own some basic kit: a PD150 & VX2000, a Lowel light kit, several
> wireless mics, a Sennheiser 416 shotgun, and so on. I can get a two
> person crew on a job without much (any) notice. Otherwise, I'm with
> Martin; I rent professional cameras, when I need them, hire gaffers with
> light trucks, hire sound mixers with full kit. I have essentially no
> video post-production equipment of my own save a Sony DCR-11, Sony
> Industrial monitor, plus DVD burners, VHS, etc. In the audio area,
> because of my on-going voice-over narration business (discounts and free
> auditions offered to newsgroup members incidently), I have a few pre-amps,
> a few good mics, and a Mackie mixer, which primarily serves as a playback
> mixer. I consider myself to be a low volume/high profit production
> company. I've learned through past experience that the process of
> creating corporate video programs often involves a lot of "consulting" to
> help clients articulate their "message". I've learned that it is actually
> more profitable to charge consulting fees for that part of the creativity
> process. That puts me in a postion to work with the client to budget
> actual productions for the right equipment rather than the equipment I
> own.
>
> Steve King
>
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