so a couple weeks ago, while driving back home from an intense day of shredding the slopes, i got a call from a guy i know asking me to do a promo video for this concert that his frat is putting on. it was a bunch of local bands and in a cool spot so i was stoked he asked and that i would get to shoot some bands with backstage access and get all kinds of cool angles and this and that. and of course i was thinkin good paycheck at the end of this if its their fundraiser..
so we end up getting there around 4:30 cuz thats when he said it started (this is less than 1 hour since ive been back from skiing) and we find out that we have to wait an hour like everybody else for the doors to open, so that was whatever, then we finally get inside and i start thinking of where i wanna shoot from, then i found out i didn't get any backstage access, which was ok but i was told thats what they wanted in the video. anyway i made do with what i could like anyone would and got a variety of shots. and by variety of shots i mean 7 hours later and a full 32Gb and empty battery...on my feet the whole time of course and never had dinner. so im completely drained.
so then we get to a couple days ago when im startin to get this edit goin and crank it out, i get a message from the same guy who called saying they can't pay me because i was a late edition to the plan and they already had a set budget for this event.........WTF! so now i not only wasted hours going through footage, i wasted 32gb on my hard drive all for nothing.
then to add to the nobody ever paying or wanting to pay for this art form, another girl i know asked for a video for her school project via facebook and said she would "give me a dollar or somethin". and not to mention the last friend i did a "finals week" video for last semester still hasn't held her deal of "taking us all to dinner" when i gave up valuable study time for that stupid video.
anyway does anyone else have problems with "customers" or "clients"?? why do some people just not get it?! videography is not free!!
/end rant.