dont fight for what is right on tother people's projects.
Just make it how they want it. Offer your siggestions and when they are cast aside, just let them go.
This is what editors do. Producers don't
always want creative input. Quite often the gig is just a media processor...a button pusher between a computer and a person who does not know what the buttons do.
By all means, I am not saying be a media processor and await time code niumbers as that will land ya unemplyeed quicker than having an opinion. I'm just saying, make a director's cut if you have to but don't go against the person paying.
I have made a lot of wonderful things that were pretty freakin lame by the time they aired. Today's producer is often an intern who has never been in a suite. There is an art to drivin' the boat and makin' sombody else think they are the captain. This truely is the key to the craft.
a tactic I use when somone asks for a page turn or somthing is to pretend like I thought they were kidding. They usually don't defend it. I am also quilty of placing ideas in their head and cediting them with the idea "so your saying B&W the background, make the lady's hat red and then sting it with a quitar riff!? man, thats gonna be awesome, here we go!"
you'll be amazed how many times thjat results in a red hat over a mono-colored background with a stinger. And you'll be amazed how many times they gloat over that a week later.
in short...it doesn't have to be an arguement, it just has to be their idea.
