on 20/11/02 4:17 am, Jorge Parra at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> So , yes it's a personal choice, but how the trends are going to move SHOULD
> be dependent , at least partially on our attitudes and reactions just as
> well.
Jorge - I just wrote a long post to Stephen's and then deleted it!...Anyway,
the gist of it is I think the people who care about the quality are the
one's in the front line. People who have secure jobs at the bottom of the
heap care only about protecting their jobs.
The digital revolution happened in the film industry many years ago: mostly
in post but then it fed into the production side. I was a diehard film man
(had my own 16mm Aaton as Stephen had his Arri SR). I was forced to shoot
video to survive but refused to line the producers' pockets or the
broadcasters' pockets! They cry there is no money in the budget but there
always has been and always will be. It just gets divided so that the people
at the front line, one's with most to lose, get a smaller slice of the cake.
It's THEIR own fault. The same thing will happen to the "smudgers" if people
don't hold the spartan line and keep breaking rank.
In all the hue and cry about there not being any money in the budget I never
ONCE heard of an electrician doing a deal, not being paid for their overtime
at 1.5x the hourly rate or 2x after midnight or not being paid for working
without a proper break, etc, etc, and so forth.
The freelance cameramen broke rank in the mid to late eighties and have
suffered ever since. If there had been a union for freelancers I would've
joined but I never found one. BECTU, the union for all production personnel
- including, would you believe it, the employers!!! - lost it's spine in the
eighties and really only had influence in features and TV studios. I paid my
dues but they never did anything for me: in fact, the one time I tried to
make a case becaues the PM was giving me grief, the shop steward went and
told the producer that I was asking questions! Brothers?...hmmmm...
Freelancers need to united or suffer the fate of the film industry's
freelancers: heavy investment, low return and no weekends!
A side note about quality: I once caught a coach from B'ham to London. The
driver turned on the video as soon as we hit the M6. The quality was about
as dire as you can get: the picture was a patchwork of grey, red, green and
blue yet not one person got up an complained during the 110 minutes the
video was playing. Out of interest, I looked around to see if people were
watching and sure enough they were. Go figure...
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