Dumb things clients say . . .

I’ll start:
Client asked for a hi-rez thumbnail.

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can you squash this 10 minute hd video so i can email it?

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is it possible to create a ProRes with 1mb?

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I see your technically incompetent clients and raise:

“We have a stock video of a cheetah chasing an antelope. Will the antelope chase the cheetah if we flip the image?”

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Years ago, when we used the ADO, I had a client who didn’t understand why, when we rotated the picture on the Y axis, we didn’t see the back of the person.

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Can you do this for free this time and next time we will book you for the big projects to compensate the work?

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Client: “Just make it SING!”
Me ???

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Just have fun with it.*

*This is a trap. What it means is, I can’t describe what I want because I don’t know. I will tell you what I don’t like out of the many versions I am attempting to get you to make.

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“I want every frame of this film to be a piece of art, like something you could print and hang on your wall.”

This was for a 60 second commercial.

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Sounds like you have 1,440 free NFT’s then.

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Show me the MONEYYYYYYY!!!

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i blame Blade Runner!

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1500 if you’re in PAL land

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This sums up the worst of it for me:

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“Why colour is different compared to the last offline? We want see the car with original aspect”

Client, after deliver the post updated with color grading.

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Can you make sure it’s 300dpi?

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  • Sure, if you can tell me how many cm or inches you want it. And on which screen?

I have done this many many times.

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On set with blue screen - Account Executive says…
“Can we use a different color than Blue? That’s our competitor’s color.”

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“Can we get more drama in the greens?”

“Can you make it more black?” (was already 0,0,0)

…or my favorite:

Client in Inferno suite, given a control surface to help run the session, but didn’t realize it was left intentionally disconnected.

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