Mechanicals/Work files
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- Monsterpiece
Hey NTers,
been having a hard time explaining to a client why mehcanicals/work files aren't normally included in the design fee. I gave him the analogy of buying a camera; saying the cost only allows you to use it as it was designed; it doesn't grant rights to all the technology behind it. How do you negotiate this with your clients?
- Monsterpiece0
Anyone? Thanks in advance, I'd appreciate the insight.
- mrdobolina0
tell them that releasing the code to them would de-value the service you have offered them.
"If I give you the source files, it takes all of my hard work, trade secrets and so on and could potentially put them in the public domain, which de-values my business. If you would like to buy my code and source files, we can negotiate that, but that isnt included in the fee we have already negotiated."
- Monsterpiece0
Cheers, for the response dobs.
Client is becoming combatative, saying the practice is an "industry specific idiosyncracy designed to screw the client."
- mknstrymrks0
When I buy a can of Coca-Cola(TM) they don't send me a copy of the fuckin recipe!
- Crouwel0
when i hire a prostitute they don't send me the friggin DNA!
- barbtastic0
wtf you doin... posting in yr sleep?
- mikotondria20
"you paid for a website, you got a website.
It doesnt matter if I created the flash file with flash, flex, laszlo, or even just coded it longhand in notepad. You needed digital sequences that would perform the specified task and you got them".
Cunt.
- Monsterpiece0
hahaha coke and prostitutes, must be Friday
- jonnyquest0
i do contract work for one of the major studios and they essentailly require the fully layered psd along with the quark/indesign mechanicals.
once a design firm has released the mechanicals the stuff can sometimes go from 3 rounds of color correction/retouch/finishing up to 12 rounds... the most i ever went was 17 rounds of corrections and that was a robert redford title/campaign...
all it takes is someone very important to dislike a campaign for it to be reworked by a combination of either the design agency or separator/finishing/film house or all three.
i've never proofed out anything supplied straight by an agency without rebuilding it to withstand the retouch/finishing rounds. agency designers are usually working tight deadlines with the crappiest art with lots of changes dictated by an art director so their files tend to be haphazzard to say the least.
- jonnyquest0
er.. haphazard?