Creative Differences
The breaking point was finally hit.
You see, as I'm sure you've all been wondering, there is a reason why with all the time we have spent working with our new Chinese partners, there has been only one "finished product" which looks suspiciously nothing like the production photos shown earlier.
The reason is very simple. It is the same reason why 80% of all products exported from China is returned for being defective.
A complete and total lack of long-term thinking, and a drive for quantity over quality.
We've actually made close to a dozen videos for these people. And because of their push to put them out faster, faster, faster...each and every one of them is embarrassingly bad. Three of them, we told them to not tell anyone that we made them.
They insisted that we were fools, and that we just didn't understand the Chinese market.
Then when their customers and audience told them the same things we told them ("they're bad"), they would yell at us for being unprofessional.
Well, it's over now. The contract has been disolved, as has been Year Of The Frog (Wa Nian) Film. We're back to just being the FrogFaith gang.
It's a relief like you wouldn't believe. They were pulling power plays to prevent us from getting any other work outside of their influence. That's over now. We're pretending we don't know each other.
We've already started talks with a Trading Company that wants to produce a series of infomercials (won't go anywhere, because I don't think they have any money - But it's always about networking), and a couple of Italian guys who proxy manage a factory, and have been given a budget to produce local advertising with (gotta love "Other People's Money").
And so, as the song goes; "I get knocked down but I get up again. You never gonna keep me down. Don't cry for me, next door neighbor." I don't know what that last part means, but I'm sure it's very deep. Maybe I should've gone with "the roof is on fire."
Oh well, 'till next time.
TTFN
You see, as I'm sure you've all been wondering, there is a reason why with all the time we have spent working with our new Chinese partners, there has been only one "finished product" which looks suspiciously nothing like the production photos shown earlier.
The reason is very simple. It is the same reason why 80% of all products exported from China is returned for being defective.
A complete and total lack of long-term thinking, and a drive for quantity over quality.
We've actually made close to a dozen videos for these people. And because of their push to put them out faster, faster, faster...each and every one of them is embarrassingly bad. Three of them, we told them to not tell anyone that we made them.
They insisted that we were fools, and that we just didn't understand the Chinese market.
Then when their customers and audience told them the same things we told them ("they're bad"), they would yell at us for being unprofessional.
Well, it's over now. The contract has been disolved, as has been Year Of The Frog (Wa Nian) Film. We're back to just being the FrogFaith gang.
It's a relief like you wouldn't believe. They were pulling power plays to prevent us from getting any other work outside of their influence. That's over now. We're pretending we don't know each other.
We've already started talks with a Trading Company that wants to produce a series of infomercials (won't go anywhere, because I don't think they have any money - But it's always about networking), and a couple of Italian guys who proxy manage a factory, and have been given a budget to produce local advertising with (gotta love "Other People's Money").
And so, as the song goes; "I get knocked down but I get up again. You never gonna keep me down. Don't cry for me, next door neighbor." I don't know what that last part means, but I'm sure it's very deep. Maybe I should've gone with "the roof is on fire."
Oh well, 'till next time.
TTFN
posted by The Infinite Jester at 10:27 PM
