Re: What are your thoughts on being a Preditor?

Let's look at it from a Union perspective for a moment. As a union editor, if I don't have a producer to produce the piece, then I also get paid a producer fee. On the other hand the producer's union allows them to produce and edit, but they only get paid for their producer job. Plus in most cases, not all but most as a network producer how much time do you have to edit when you are setting up live shots/interviews, writing scripts and trying to get approval from NY? On top of that dealing with your correspondent to?

I am an editor, that produces in conjunction with the producer, but I also do after effects, photoshop, audio mixing, and oh by the way make sure that the levels are correct before my piece hits the air.

There was a job posting not to long ago for a medical school that dealt strictly with the heart and they wanted a shooter, editor, writer, maintenance tech and PR person for one job. Let me get this straight, you want one person to do how many jobs? Oh, but wait your college deals with the heart, not the brain or the feet or the GI tract, but the heart. Many of these companies don't have a clue of what they are asking for, all they have is a salary number and a job description that someone handed them.

So, more power to the people that want to be all things to all people and not get paid.

J. Grote, Jr.