[NEohioPAL]Re: To all neopal readers a must read. (Andrew Dutton)

[Craig Knowles]

Re: To all neopal readers a must read. (Andrew Dutton)

Not all projects have the multi-million dollar budgets that it seems Mr. 
Dutton has become accustomed to working on, but I for one appreciate the 
postings here, paid or not, and I'm sure many others do as well.

It's hard to get started in this city. A year ago I offered my time for free 
as a Set Photographer. I advertised ONE ENTIRE DAY of my time to any 
production wishing to take advantage of my service in the hopes of widening 
my contact network and adding to my portfolio.

Mr. Dutton saw the ad and was eager to take me up on the offer. He said he 
had a project that would be perfect -- except that it was taking place at 
unscheduled times throughout the following 12 MONTH PERIOD. He said I must 
commit to the project, be on-call, able to show up on-set within a 4-hour 
notice, and do it entirely for free.

I reiterated that I was only offering ONE DAY of free photography, but asked 
for specifics on his project, thinking that I’d at least consider it if it 
was something that interested me.

Mr. Dutton told me that (paraphrasing) "details are not revealed to those 
who can’t commit" -- and that was it. Apparently if I couldn’t offer an 
entire year of my time, for free, to an unscheduled, randomly filmed 
production with a 4-hour on-call window, then I was of no use to him 
whatsoever.

So, while it is often true that you often get what you pay for -- and people 
do try to take advantage of those who are willing to work for free -- I'm 
glad this mailing list is open to all, regardless of budget, level of 
"professionalism", and project type.

Sincerely,
Craig

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