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Originally Posted by AaronM
You're probably very right. You mentioned:
"produce this formula within 30% of the guidelines"
Why would you do that? There are clients I've shot for who have WAY stronger guidelines....Literally pages and pages of them. There is no 30%, it's all or nothing. Either you shoot to their specs or you don't get paid.
My unsolicited advice...Drop the shooter and hire somebody who knows what they are doing and will shoot how you tell them to shoot. The way you are doing this, you are paying for their learning curve and like you say, they probably will never deliver what you want. You're throwing away money.  |
Well the thing is I don't want to micromanage anyone. I appreciate the guy's creativity. I also appreciate the fact that I am paying him peanuts. It's all I can afford right now but I am really surprised he's willing to get out of bed for that amount, I wouldn't.
I am not a director, I don't do video production. My wife won't let me come within smelling distance of the girls so my part all has to be done from my desk.
There's a lot of things that are subjective in this particular project, for one thing the girls know what they are willing to do and they are pretty much the only ones who know. They are co-producers on this so they do get the final say in what does and doesn't get done, as most of you know that's pretty much always the case regardless of what the guidelines or agreement say.
It's not like we're gonna have thugs with guns enforcing the guidelines on set.
The other thing is the girls are doing this for free, since the content is to promote their camrooms and they are 50/50 partners on the solo sites/fanclubs that will be (hopefully) built using the content.
And truthfully I like his style, I am happy to support his art as long as he's supporting my business.
I just want to point him in the right direction and make sure there's enough material to fap to when it's all done, art is great but customers need to get a nut sooner or later, hopefully later.