That’s what a lot of people don’t get. They focus on getting “hits”, even if those hits are hecklers.

In fact, it’s much better to have fewer hits, but each person that sees your video gains respect for your abilities, which translates into more opportunities in the future.

If you do a poor job and then your video goes viral, you might be able to score a few rev-share dollars, but your name as far as being a Content Creator is going to be MUD! :D

Unfortunately, televison’s actually about making money, not entertaining or educating. Anybody that claims they can point a camera at something can potentially get some kind of deal to make a video, if the price is right. It’s sort of like how government contracts tend to go to the LOWEST bidder… Capisce? :/

I guess I was trying to make a point specifically to groups or people that actually want to make a decent name for themselves when it comes to television/web shows, not people that are just looking to make a dollar, like any regular job. The only way you move forward is by demonstrating quality, speed and excellent customer relations.

You can stay afloat with garbage work, but you’re going to have to keep struggling for deals instead of having your name ring bells and people WANTING to work with you instead of NEEDING to work with you because you’re the cheapest or everyone good already turned their project down.

The problem with doing just enough to get by is that you don’t get any priority treatment when it comes to better work or work you’d really LOVE to do. If you do a commercial for someone that you know is going to be shown on late, late, LATE night television, like those garbage used car salesman commercials and you TREAT IT like it’s going to be on in the middle of the night when nobody’s awake or sober, then that’s what your resume’s going to be filled with and you’re going to get work from people who are trying to make work of that caliber.

OTOH, if you treat that commercial like it’s going to be on the Super Bowl, then someone might see the difference between what you did and what the next person did and actively seek you out for their next project, even though you don’t have direct experience with that kind of work.

This is what was funny about walking into that place and having some guy ask me if I’ve ever cut a reality show before. There’s NOTHING INTRICATE about reality shows. It’s all formula. Reality shows are “Baby Taps” compared to the work I had already done to that point… which they could have seen if they had actually had professional decks on hand… which they would have if they had been an actual production company instead of slackers looking to get over by hiring a one-man army to make something out of their NOTHING. :D