@Indie
Here's the FULL story:
A DP friend of mine asked if I wanted to help on a music video shoot.
I say 'yes'
They set everything up, we shoot in a nice brooklyn loft building with a small crew of 6.
BTW: we are doing this totally free.
It's an OLD loft building so we end up blowing an entire floors power.
They decided to try and shoot some footage with natural light. (We had 2 cameras this day)
-HVX200 with Letus 35
-Some prosumer HDV camera
Why? who knows.
So ends up that the 35adapter died and so the footage was no good.
We say we will shoot another day.
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The DP calls me up and asks if I can take over and direct the video.
I say 'Yes'
We shoot on my Manhattan rooftop with a crew of 2 (me and the DP)
We shoot out everything in 5 hours(everything that's in the first cut is just the second day)
I edit it. I show them. They HATE it. Not just don't like it. HATE it. I spend $400 for a put put gennie, uhaul, ect. and they didn't appreciate my hard work that we did for free.
My DP gives them the footage, tells them they can do what they want. We had our footage, so that's what was important.
I post the video to show to a few people. They threaten with a lawer.
Yep, stupid me, I didn't get release forms, cause I assumed something we did for free wouldn't piss off this no name band.
Wrong.
So it's not that I care they like it they way they want.
It's the fact they told me they HATED my cut. I just needed to know I wasn't crazy.