OFFICIAL RESPONSE FROM JMC ACADEMY MANAGEMENT: We are grateful that you have brought this to our attention and understand the frustration that this has caused. We want to stress that on all 3 campuses we do enforce that students respect all actors and crew and entering into clear agreements with actors regarding delivery of completed films and / or providing rushes. However in light of these complaints and the subsequent creation of this site, we have decided to amend our policies and improve the wording of particular paperwork to ensure that JMC Academy Film and Television students enter into more transparent arrangements with external actors and crew to ensure that there is better communication through all stages of pre-production, production and post-production and that finished copies of films and/or rushes are delivered in a timely manner. Kind regards, JMC Academy Managament.
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Celina
11 years ago
If you can't produce footage for your actors then pay them! In every industry a service provided is rewarded with a fee or a product. Honour your contracts!
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Sahara Folan
11 years ago
people give your their skills, their time, their laughter anguish heartbreak a charcater that they need to be played for the role, the leat you could do is give them their worth and them their work to , your student got their work done with their help least you can do is respect them and their work as well.
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Leanne Campbell
11 years ago
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If your not going to pay the actors with their film then you have to pay them for their time. It's simply called Professionalism! It feels like a waste of time when we spend our hard earned money on fuel to go to the filmings and sometimes were not even catered for on set. It's about time all students realised the value of what is being given to them. Be professional and make sure we are fed properly on sets and pay us our footage or pay us money. We are not free, we come at a cost of fair exchange.
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Chris Masters Mah
11 years ago
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I personally have no issues with JMC films students - maybe I was lucky enough to get crews that were all willing to supply footage when asked. I, however, understand that when we work as actors and donate our time and our bodies, our selves, and ask (well I always ask but some may be shy to ask) for footage, the footage is payment for our time. In the words of Will Eamon (INXS) - we sign contracts, we arrive on set on a time production decides. Not returning footage of our work is like us not showing up. Being late to returning footage is like us being late on set. Many of us are professionals, and we remember those that treat us unfairly.
If you are working on these projects you should absilutely get a copy of the final product. Anything less is absurd.
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Cris Cochrane
11 years ago
your results require our commitment; think there is an endless supply of wannabes prepared to do it anyway, watch us educate the new folk... The stream will run dry. Show us the respect we showed your productions.
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Nenad Samardzija
11 years ago
If we work for Free, Our footage is our payment! Imagine you went to work and I paid you in hamburgers and promised to pay you in a few months that never come
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Neil Goldsmith
11 years ago
It's not that difficult, even if you just provide the rushes/dailies
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pauline argyropoulos
11 years ago
its just not right!
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Nicholas Politis
11 years ago
This initiative should apply to every film/school on a national scale.
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Naomi
11 years ago
This should not be an issue. It's simply called respect.
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Roger Dray
· petition starter
11 years ago
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I have 3 jobs where I have been totally cut of, ignored and am still waiting for film, almost given up on JMC
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Albert Goikhman
11 years ago
i had one film done with JMC and year after I'm still trying to get a copy.
OFFICIAL RESPONSE FROM JMC ACADEMY MANAGEMENT: We are grateful that you have brought this to our attention and understand the frustration that this has caused. We want to stress that on all 3 campuses we do enforce that students respect all actors and crew and entering into clear agreements with actors regarding delivery of completed films and / or providing rushes. However in light of these complaints and the subsequent creation of this site, we have decided to amend our policies and improve the wording of particular paperwork to ensure that JMC Academy Film and Television students enter into more transparent arrangements with external actors and crew to ensure that there is better communication through all stages of pre-production, production and post-production and that finished copies of films and/or rushes are delivered in a timely manner. Kind regards, JMC Academy Managament.
If you can't produce footage for your actors then pay them! In every industry a service provided is rewarded with a fee or a product. Honour your contracts!
people give your their skills, their time, their laughter anguish heartbreak a charcater that they need to be played for the role, the leat you could do is give them their worth and them their work to , your student got their work done with their help least you can do is respect them and their work as well.
If your not going to pay the actors with their film then you have to pay them for their time. It's simply called Professionalism! It feels like a waste of time when we spend our hard earned money on fuel to go to the filmings and sometimes were not even catered for on set. It's about time all students realised the value of what is being given to them. Be professional and make sure we are fed properly on sets and pay us our footage or pay us money. We are not free, we come at a cost of fair exchange.
I personally have no issues with JMC films students - maybe I was lucky enough to get crews that were all willing to supply footage when asked. I, however, understand that when we work as actors and donate our time and our bodies, our selves, and ask (well I always ask but some may be shy to ask) for footage, the footage is payment for our time. In the words of Will Eamon (INXS) - we sign contracts, we arrive on set on a time production decides. Not returning footage of our work is like us not showing up. Being late to returning footage is like us being late on set. Many of us are professionals, and we remember those that treat us unfairly.
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If you are working on these projects you should absilutely get a copy of the final product. Anything less is absurd.
your results require our commitment; think there is an endless supply of wannabes prepared to do it anyway, watch us educate the new folk... The stream will run dry. Show us the respect we showed your productions.
If we work for Free, Our footage is our payment! Imagine you went to work and I paid you in hamburgers and promised to pay you in a few months that never come
It's not that difficult, even if you just provide the rushes/dailies
its just not right!
This initiative should apply to every film/school on a national scale.
This should not be an issue. It's simply called respect.
I have 3 jobs where I have been totally cut of, ignored and am still waiting for film, almost given up on JMC
i had one film done with JMC and year after I'm still trying to get a copy.