CompuServe Thread

VHS patient education

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#1313From: Avery RussellDec 30, 1994 12:31 PM
My reply is quite different from the rest of the responses you have received on this forum. My strategy would be NOT to consider production equipment and concentrate on the actual productions. I have seen people having to change their plans due to equipment limitations. The point here, there are several ways to "buy" the services you need for each title you are producing, build the IRS approved EXPENSE against the project and you are done. I'd be glad to speak with you over the telephone. I located in Maryland and can arrange to give you my telephone number. I am Producer/Director that has been on the client side of the desk (while working for IBM), and a self employed person for almost 15. I own equipment now, but also buy the services that I need, AS NEEDED. It makes for greater ability to focus on the project at hand. (Let's see how many folks disagree with this approach). Regards Avery Russell
#2569From: Dave EbertFeb 3, 1995 5:53 AM
Most artists probably want to own their equipment for the intimacy that brings about whether its computers, video, or painting or whatever expression they are connecting with their lives. A producer/director may be an artist of a different sort, whose medium is within him or herself, and that art may be more on the conceptual or overall visualization level. What I am getting at is perhaps the difference between an orchestra condutor and those in the orchestra. So I do not disagree with your approach, but would only see it as a diffence in kind.