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“Get out of commercials if you don’t want to have your liberties taken”
Gotta say that’s the best thing I ever did! Since switching over to films, I’ve almost never had a problem with clients.Paul[/quote]
They do say “What’s the difference between God and a creative art director?”
God doesn’t think he’s a creative art director !
ok, you guys ready for this…
while in the middle of comping a shot with the usual action schematics, action/title safes and other guides toggling on and off, my clent asks:
“now, will those circles and lines be in my television commercial, cause i don’t think they look that good…..”
then there was this one… while zoomed in ten thousand percent in paint trying to remove some blemish on a model, the art director jumps out and says suddenly – “before we go ANY furter… i want to make sure we are doing all this work DIGITALLY.”
tim
suspect nycive had punch ups in the back of my suite over the colour of titles –
ive had a producer throw up everywhere because she drank too much
ive had clients snogging non stop – do we just blend into the computer in the end and they think we are not there.we have 16*9 anamorphic over here and that causes all sorts of comments – like it wont be that thin will it.
i always get , in paint when making a matte, it wont be that red will it.
ive had pa’s spill their cokes into my keyboard countless timesive had ,,…… etc etc i could go on and on – maybe i should write a book
jh
You should. It should be called “InDISCREETions”…
Sorry… I’ll get my coat 😉
Please don’t get me started on old client stories, I’ll be here all night.
Paul
paul_round wrote:“Gotta say that’s the best thing I ever did! Since switching over to films, I’ve almost never had a problem with clients.Paul
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Trying to get into features at the moment, commercials clients are taking the mick too often for my liking. I mean I have to go in for 7.30am tomorrow so I can fit them in around my more interesting feature/long-form jobs, and I don’t even get thanks!
Bottom line though, is that there not that many houses that still use IFF for feature work so finding new opportunities can be difficult for us flame guys in features.
My favourite was the German client & English Prod co who’d been at each others necks for weeks, literally getting into a fist fight in the back of the suite, & Prod Co having to go out for a walk round the block.
Silly me, in trying to calm things down, suggested we get a runner in to order a good lunch & put Channel 4 on for an afternoon movie.
‘Ja, that would be a great Idea’
TV goes on, & today’s offering is
‘Sink the Bismark’[have you seen the opening credits. . . . .?]
Took at least an hour to stop giggling. . . . . .
i used to have a client that would always bring her dog in – he was as good as gold until we were doing a dog food commercial once and it started humping the leg of the flame desk and wouldnt stop. when i told it off it went into the corner of the suite and did a big dump – a dirty protest.
jh
I as well have many. One of the worst was when I was doing the opening and closing for HBO, but in HD. I had a 70 layer composite that took several days to track and compose. The executive from HBO came in to my room acting like a true ass. He said he could run Inferno better than me. He grabbed the pen from me and sat down. LMAO. he had no clue. He was rude and nasty. The next thing I knew he was telling me to delete the setup. I was like in the twilight zone and was like WTF. He demanded me to delete the 70 layer setup. I ask why and he said “because im telling you to, I want to see you do it all over again” I tried to convience him of other ways we can go about this. Well then I just gave him major attitue and acted like a prick to him. Once I started to give him shit he said “I like you, I like your attitude. Ill never forget this job and ill never forget what hell I went through with this guy. Many more things he did, but I wont bore you with them.
Emm, gents, if i may throw my dice on this mash.
quite honestly i don’t see anything wrong with bitchy clients and i don’t feel that urge to `’explode because of stress”. Yeah, sometimes it’s hard, long hours, lots of changes etc, but in the end, i am not sitting outside in the cold, maybe rain….
i have my coffee or whatever, my seat is quite confortable, the secretary has a nice a$$ etc….I mean, i am supposed to do what i do best, i am payed for that so, let’s bring some good will to work, to work attitude, to life.
Again, the client helps my paycheck and i spend my ass infront of a nice little box called inferno (or flame) 🙂
So Jon,
How come you are freelance now? Didn’t you set up Smoke & Mirrors with some other fellas?
THX
thx1138 wrote:So Jon,How come you are freelance now? Didn’t you set up Smoke & Mirrors with some other fellas?
THX
hi – yes i did i was also head of editing at the mill for six years and started on flame at the very begining- i left smoke and mirrors to go directing and now direct through a company called Nice Shirt Films – i still have a flame though at my office as most of the commercials i direct are post heavy and i love to – wherever possible – post it myself. sort of cuts out the middle man you know. and i still really enjoy it. so the clients i spoke of are normally myself – i am the only one i can blame. good fun though. jh
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don’t expect them to be thankful afterwards.
Those bastards think they’re the masters of the universe.
Clients enslave artists, that’s they’re job. 😈T-ghost wrote:8)
don’t expect them to be thankful afterwards.
Those bastards think they’re the masters of the universe.
Clients enslave artists, that’s they’re job. 😈But how boring would life be without those types of clients? Normally I can t stop smilling at dialogs like .. “I need this for print too” ..”OK, what resolution?” ..” 300 dpi”..”OK, what size?” .. “300dpi” … “I mean, how big should it get?” … “300 dpi” .. “OK, forget it”.
But the most funniest thing I ve ever heard was a guy on the XSI-mailing list who was told to make a “turning cube out of mirrors” … should be no problem, BUT the client thought this was a funny idea, as every one who watches this cube on TV will see itself in the cube… as it should be built of mirrors. Its hard not laugh at customers like that 😆
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