Real-Life Decision Making -- Solution
You decide to hang on to their main ideas and propose some changes.
You mention that you think a few changes might be good. You take a chance
and offer up some of your suggestions. To your surprise, they like the ideas.
You strike a compromise and the video turns out well.
"You sort of have to say up front what you want, and if the band has very
strong ideas and views of what they want, they're paying, so they should get
to do what they want," says Prudence Fenton, a producer in California.
"What makes it really work is the relationship that the band has with the
director and how much trust they have," Fenton says. "If you get into it where
the band is telling the director what to do, that doesn't usually work so
well.
"It's the director's role to picture what the band wants,
but if they're not happy about it then you end up with something that doesn't
have much vision. Either the band has the vision or the director has the vision,
or they're really great at collaborating."