Re: Stop it

[Mark Suszko] "needle-drop music. (Using real needles then!)"

Mark, from one old fart to another, good one. Just a day ago I was explaining to someone where the term "laser drop" came from.

One additional thought on tape ownership (then maybe this topic will go to rest again for a couple of days). We recently had a client, for whom we'd already made a bunch of compromises, ask in advance of a shoot if they could have the camera tapes. My reply was, "Sure, but why would you want to pay an extra third for the shoot just so you can have the tapes?"

I went onto explain how in many forms of creative enterprise a "buy-out" of the material always costs a third to a half more because it's essentially telling the creator that the business will be going elsewhere and the material can be used to do anything.

The client, I assume fearful of raising the cost of the project any further, immediately dropped the question and we moved on.

It really does all come down to what Chris and others were saying about service. That's what they remember and that's why they come back.