[Ec-ncuc] Video update

[Carlos A. Afonso]

Answering the question at the end of the msg below: Yea! Too much 
bickering for the significance of the issue, I guess.

--c.a.

On 02/03/2013 07:14 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
> Bill, I don't mean to prolong this debate, but your <cough> "brief" list of things to add would amount to an academic lecture that balloons the proposed video to a 45 minute powerpoint slideshow, one that has almost no relationship to the project that was originally approved. You've fallen into the trap that I warned Brenden and Eric about when they sent things by the EC for basic tabs-keeping and financial approval, namely that you've taken it as an invitation for a committee to completely remake the video. (It's bad enough that it's a committee, but a committee of non-filmmakers to boot).
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> In particular, you have demonstrated why you are an academic and not a filmmaker. You have added complex _verbal_ ideas like "we put 6 people on the Council oh by the way, explain what the Council is; a list of engagements (that'll be exciting, what do you propose, rolling lists of bullet points?), invitation to join 3 or 4 different task forces (the names alone will take 10 seconds, longer than most existing shots, to pronounce); a "nod to constituency building" (whatevertf that means - I believe Kathy nods her head once in the current cut, so maybe we have that one covered).
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> And then you say, " I would think things like this could be blended in rather easily via graphics with narrative..."
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> ...except we don't have any graphics, they have to be produced, and no narrative, which would have to be written and recorded. These things cost money, and time.
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> It would be easy to humor you and pretend that these kinds of demands can be accommodated. But I have to be honest and tell you they can't. You are talking about a different project.  Let's finish this one first.
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> This one is what it is at this point. It's short, introductory, and pretty good. Based on your ideas, I can ask to maybe expand the time to 4 minutes instead of 3, but sometimes less is more. Remember, Superbowl commercials are 30 seconds.
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> We were lucky to get a professional to work at below market rates. You are proposing to send him back to the drawing boards, with a lot of nonviable ideas. It ain't happening. Unless, of course, you want to consider a $10,000 post-production fee. All in favor, say, "fiscal cliff"
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> And it's completely unnecessary to even debate this, because we will have all of the footage and if you want to make a different video later on, we'll turn it all over to you, along with tons of other photos, exciting organograms and lists of task forces to knock yourself out with.
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> We have a simple decision: $2000 for post production, yea or nay. Please make a decision before the week is out.
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