Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B.D., In the thread context, I thought it innapropriate to mention the client to clarify. Your term "P.R. work" may very well apply in this case. Scott B. D. Colen wrote: >Tina has this one pegged! And frankly, one has pretty much always had to do >commercial work of one sort or another to support documentary work. Still >documentary work and t.v./film/video work - particularly for hire - are >different animals. In fact, I'd go so far as to suggest that the work for >corporations and social service clients - as glorious and Emmy worthy as I'm >sure it is - is PR work, not true documentary work, in that it is work for >hire produced to tell a story that a client wants told to promote the agenda >of that client. > > >On 9/22/06 10:07 AM, "Lawrence Zeitlin" <lrzeitlin@optonline.net> wrote: > > > >>On Sep 21, 2006, at 10:47 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote: >> >> >> >>>>My fine art buddy is taking on some documentary jobs to pay the >>>>bills. >>>> >>>>Scott >>>> >>>> >>>What! Please let me know how this is possible. I take on commercial >>>jobs to be able to afford to do documentary work. Who is paying for >>>documentary photography these days!! >>> >>>Tina >>> >>> >>Tina, Ted >> >>Documentary work lives - but it's all on video. Someone has to fill >>up that "vast wasteland." >> >>My daughter recently did three hours of broadcast video on the Yale >>University Tricentennial anniversary. She also did a history of >>submarines from Bushnell's "Turtle" to the atomic powered Nautilus >>for the Electric Boat Company. She gets constant requests from her >>gainful employment as a TV writer/producer to do freelance >>documentary work for medical and social services clients. So far she >>has been nominated for 5 Emmys and has won two International TV >>awards for her social service spots, a feat that makes her parents >>very proud. All that expensive education wasn't wasted. Now if she >>would only call and visit more often - - >> >>Larry Z >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Pics @ http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps Leica M6TTL, Bessa R, Nikon FM3a, Nikon D70, Rollei AFM35 (Jihad Sigint NSA FBI Patriot Act)