Let's talk about WAR STORIES. Everyone in the business has their favorite about the
client from hell or technology run amok.
Speaking of techno-fits, once I was programming a 32-slide projector
multi-image show at Expo '92 in Genoa, Italy. It was two days
before opening and we faced a $20,000 per day penalty if the
pavilion opened late. Naturally, every ten minutes the Italian
power went dead. With each outage it meant climbing a ladder to
each of the 32 projectors and resetting each tray by hand. You
learn to work under pressure in this business.
Here is a collection of other "under-pressure" stories I've
gathered from writer/producers on the Internet. I'm eager
to add more. E-mail me at
Bruce Miller
mmm@mindspring.com.
A humbling story about the dangers of criticizing crapola.
A former writer/producer admonishes writers to never talk trash
in the bathroom.
How corporate politics can send an in-the-can project
down-the-drain for a major soft-drink company.
The "making-of" video documentary for a $3 million commercial ends up
documenting insanity and waste.
Exhuming Dan "Ole Hoss" Blocker from his waxen grave for a
Chevrolet campaign.
Stanley Kubrick it's not. An example of high-concept.
The usual list, and then some, of what can go wrong with a
corporate presentation on the road.
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