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- jox
My firm rarely does any web work, we mostly charge for advice and let other people do the work, but I just got out of a meeting with one of our clients who wanted a rush job because their web agency just went bust.
This is particularly interesting because this client is one of the largest movie studios in the world (very active in the anti-piracy debate) and I was sitting there with their Scandinavian executive, listening to him go on and on about this promo site he needed to have built *today*.
Him: "Yeah, so we want to have lots of dark colors, the trailer in these different sizes for the visitor to click on, behind the scenes, photo albums, meet the cast, and all of these awesome sound clips from the movie playing in the background - as for the design we are kinda flexible, look for something cool on the web and, you know, just use it..."
Me: "Uh huh . okay... right... Wait... I'm sorry, what was that last thing?"
Him: "There's tons of great stuff out there, see if you can find something cool that we can use. As long as it's done quickly!"
Me: "I'm... not sure that's such a good idea, using someone elses work like that. But the team will come up with something great, I'm sure"
Him: "Super!"
- slappy0
hahaha, should have told him that you would get to work just as soon as you finish burning copies of spiderman 3 for the whole office.
- Studiospooky0
Fuck. That's a mess. On a slight side note, as an illustrator I have found that nobody, nobody at all without exception ever comes with a commission with anything like a sensible amount of time available. I only ever get briefed as above...
Client: " We suddenly need this today even though we have never mentioned it before, and we want it like this other thing you did that we found on your website"
Me: Yeah. That piece took two weeks to produce and cost 10k excluding the photoshoot and model hire"
Client: "Okay, sounds great. We have 12euros, and half an hour. But its okay becuase instead of the model girls can we just have mobile phones, thats east isn't it...we need about four hundred of them. All different."
Me: "Errr.... I'll err... I'll see what I can do"
Client: "Okay Bye"... click. Phone rings two seconds later..
Client: "Hi, How's it going? We'd like to see something in three minutes. Oh, and on top of the foour hundred mobile phones can we also have some girls in bikinis made of fruit? Need it by lunchtime" click.
Me: "OH. FUCK OFF"
- rabattski0
This thread is going to be awesome!
- jamble0
I think it's just going to be a thread where everyone says "that's what happens to me too"
- SlashPeckham0
Go for a 'soft launch'. get the trailer online now and release the rest of the stuff in a timely manner...?
- Top idea and I think they will like the sound of 'soft-launch'stem
- a soft launch? is this for a porn movie?flashbender
- roundabout0
In the 8 year in the design industry, I have never got a brief in my life, MTV where the best, There brief to me was, he is the logo we are using, design something around that.
Right then. : /
- madirish0
fine,
i will bail you out of a jam, AGAIN. i am booking my tickets now for sweden, or do you want me to do it remotely? just make sure to wear a shirt during the next video conference call- cannot stand the sight of shaved pastey man again...
- barbtastic0
promise you won't be the one writing the briefs if they decide to start?
- capsize0
Jox: You are a bit behind schedule. Get cracking. ffs.
- PonyBoy0
So is it done yet? What'd you end up stealing? :)
- gramme0
Fun times when the client and their personal prepress manager decide to print a project a certain way, after I've been giving the direction to design it for another printing process, then another person from the same client co. comes in, sees the work, says no this chick I work with is raving bonkers, we can't print it that way we need to stick to the original plan, I say yeah I was a bit concerned about her approach, my boss says well you should've called me, I say that there was a whole email conversation about it yesterday, why are you acting like this is brand new information.
I LOVE LOVE being stuck in the middle.