How much do you usually give an expert for a interview?
Celebrity experts and published experts.
Celebrity experts and published experts.
In the new millennium terms like "celebrity" and "published" don't have the status that they once had. A "celebrity" like Paris Hilton is "famous for being famous" and would be an expert on how to screw up your life - and would command six figures for an interview. And what celebrity is really an expert on anything except their own craft? And anyone can self publish in the internet age now that you don't even have to physically publish on printed pieces of paper bound between two covers. So without being vetted by a traditional publisher, without being reviewed by traditional critics, without being reviewed by your peers, without having ever sold one physical book you can be a "published expert."
And what constitutes an expert? ROC and I are considered the audio experts here on IndieTalk, and we both have considerable knowledge and experience, but neither one of us has the status, experience or knowledge of a Randy Thom, or even a Rob Nokes.
What you have to do is contact the expert in question - or their representation - to find out what it takes in money and perqs to obtain an interview; and how much control they have over their segment.
Something else to consider; every field will have experts who disagree and obtaining two with radically opposing
points of view is sometimes enough to get them to argue with each other for free.
We're on the same page; I was pointing out that some verification of qualifications would be in order...
I usually give them what they ask for.How much do you usually give an expert for a interview?
how real can a documentary get? i was thinking of doing a documentary one dog catchers(eaters) in nigeria. By the way I am nigerian. You think there is a limit to how far you can take the grittiness of film. Or at a point would you have to lay back and say OK thats enough.
So long as it is not gratuitous then there shouldn't really be a limit. If it is going to have that shock factor, it has to be productive and used to strengthen the point you're making. Shocking for the sake of shocking is the exclusive territory of torture porn horror films, not documentaries.