Re: [Avid-L2] Re: OT: The sad state of perceived value of editorial.

I wonder what the editor was paid for Paranormal Activity, budget was
US$ 11,000 Box office figures today is $106M, see you just never know.

Ian Wilson
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On 03/12/2009, at 3:14 PM, Frank Capria <frank@kingpininteractive.com>
wrote:

> I'm with Oliver and Shirley. This is like a lot of stuff out there.
> None of
> us will ever see the movie.
>
> $300 a week because it's mostly done. What's that sign at the auto
> mechanic's?
>
> Our labor rate is $75 an hour.
> $85 if you watch.
> $95 if you help.
>
> I also love the line about getting consideration for bigger
> projects. They
> are probably going to be even more done, so they will be $200 a week.
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 6:03 PM, oliverpetersvidy <
> oliverpeters@oliverpeters.com> wrote:
>
>> This really isn't about the perceived value of an editor at all.
>> Unfortunately this is all too typical of a lot of the stuff
>> floating around
>> related to the RED camera. It's one of the things that gives RED
>> owners a
>> bad name. What they are really asking for is not only someone to
>> clean up
>> the movie, but also to do true finishing, which - on a RED project
>> - is
>> pretty daunting if you don't know what you are doing. The bottom
>> line is
>> this filmmaker has no money and is trying to dangle the carrot of a
>> RED
>> project so someone will bite.
>>
>> - Oliver
>>
>>
>
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