BrianMacKenzie
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Sep 13, 2005, 10:30 PM
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Hello, what would you do in my situation?
I have a friend who I met through doing some website work for him. We seem to be a great team to work together, and over some business beers came up with a great idea.
He is an instructor of a very cool thing. He wants to make up an instructional video teaching this thing, and I want to do it for him, as I know I can create something like no one else (I have all these very cool ideas that I garuntee no one has thought about, I don't mean to sound cocky, I can just picture how fantastic I can make it.
The problem is neither of us has too much money to play with, but there is a great work around, providing we can work out all the details first, which is where I seek your guidance... (as the revenue would be generated from sales of the movie)
All the actors and extras will be happy do work on it for a free DVD, and simply being in it, seeing as it's the main guy who I've been talking about who will be the main charactor. I already have all the equiptment and everything, so the cost of the movie will be limited mostly, to the replication of the discs, and my time.
We are friendly, so I can see a deal working out between us, but it has to be said that a business can turn sour easy. So...
So, the best way to make the money, is to split the sales revenue somehow, what would you recommend as a fair cut (me doing all the movie making, him providing the stuff to make a movie about)
And I need to make sure that I get compensated for my time, even if the movie doesn't sell.
Any thoughts?
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Unicycling Glidecam-ist
Balance Productions
http://www.balanceproductions.ca
Filming on a unicycle through the streets of Manhattan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck8bM97Hh3I
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