Message posted by Roadeye on January 25, 2010 at 18:08:55 PST:
Robert gets it. Perplexing problem. Roadeye.
Unfortunately for most producers or, in my case, private production companies who are trying to pitch ideas and solid pieces to the networks, the only thing that matters is the bottom line.
What usually happens when a pitch is successful is that the producer (the one with the original idea) begins working on what he or she pitched.
But, since the network or station buying the project feels that they too have a stake in the product...the producer ends up working with a producer supplied by the network as well.
Those producers come with agendas.
In the case of Area 51...that agenda usually includes UFOs or conspiracies.
Remember...these people are not specialists...most of the time they are barely over thirty and glued to their blackberries.
The idea of a new black project???????
Aliens....oh I love aliens...we gotta have aliens.
Area 51...Independence Day right? oh I know that place.
You get the idea.
So what do you do...try to combine the two?
Address one while focusing on the other?
Seems reasonable...except for one thing.
You guys...I mean the people worth talking to on both sides of the issue...those with the best, most reliable information...appear to hate each other.
What producers like me get is...
"Only if you swear you aren't going to talk about UFOs."
or
"Only if you're not going to talk to the other guys who tell everybody we're crazy."
As I've said before...
It appears impossible to reach any kind of common ground...even respect for that matter in a lot of cases.
Yet I read your complaints about the media.
And yes I understand them.
But the problem is...to the average Joe.
And to most of the Networks...unfortunately, Area-51 and UFO Conspiracies are synonymous.
It's what the public wants...and what the network execs are willing to spend money on.
There is an alternative...pay for it out of my own pocket.
Big risk...lots of bucks.
Travel, cameras, post production... AND.
No guarantee of return and certainly no guarantee it will ever be seen by anyone other than those who participated in it.
In Reply to: Re: For Joerg and Peter Merlin posted by Robert on January 25, 2010 at 12:44:02 PST:
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