Of course I would not recommend for people to try this without full confidence in at least coming through for a client. Although I could care less if someone tells us we will never work in this town again, I would not recommend making too many enemies. We are always prepared to provide for the client no matter what!
One of our goals this year is to dive head first into multimedia. But it is always tough to take on such a new thing with little pro training and even less time to do training. I always believe the best training is to just shut up and go out there and do it. I tend to learn much faster through making mistakes than by reading a book or sitting in front of a classroom.
But the best way ever is to have a client that wants to pay!!!
We got a call today from someone who owns a kiosk at a nearby mall. He wanted to have two "Quick and Dirty" commercials (one spanish and one english) made for Youtube. We told him we could do it, but we would not be cheap. He agreed to pay what we asked for which wasn't as much as a super pro, but within typical editorial standards and rates. With all our new gear in tow, we showed up, shot for about half an hour and spent the next few hours editing. We learned from a TON of mistakes. Audio and video (mostly audio), but we did it. We are happy, we know the client will be happy and we got another experience under our belt. The best part is we made a new client that was even more impressed by the speed at which we came through for him and he is going to refer us to his friends.
It isn't something we are going to retire off of, but definitely pays for our little trip to Key West this weekend. ; )
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