Job Search Question...

[tvwxguy]

Are ND's asking for VHS or DVD or both? Is it 50/50 or are DVD's starting to overtake VHS.

Just trying to get a feel for what I need to have available.

Also... sorry if this question has been recently answered - I usually stick to the "nerd" side of ML, but thought y'all could help out.

Danke!

[WalMartNation]

They're asking for whatever the job posting says... If it says send VHS, then do it... if it says send a DVD, send it. If it says send either a DVD or VHS then send whichever one you have handy to put in the mail.

I would imagine most ND's don't have DVD players in their offices yet.

[tvwxguy]

WalMart - I understand "what" to send based on the ad... I'm just trying to decide if I should order 10 VHSs/10 DVDs, 5 DVDs/15 VHSs, etc...

[WalMartNation]

Ah... I see. I'd lean toward the 5 DVD's/15 VHS. I'd say the VHS ratio for ND's still isn't quite that high, but it doesn't help to be prepared.

[PKGable]

I've seen a request for one DVD every three VHS tapes. A lot of job openings say send a tape, so I go the safe route and send a VHS, not a DVD.

[TheGreenJacket]

If the ad says send DVC Pro or M2 - run away.

[photog78]

What about Digital S?

[Seraph]

I saw one that wanted an 8mm reel.

[adam & doctor drew]

you mean you haven't "seen the future"???

[Omega Man]

The future is YouTube, chumps! graemlins/eusa_doh.gif

[11-Evil]

I would go with 1 DVD and 19 VHS. If you have a DVD burner and a printer, you can always make more copies of the original DVD. . .while making copies of your original VHS degrades the quality.

[Roy Hobbs]

ND's want 3/4 since that was in vogue the last time a consultant had an original idea.

[east coast producer]

Future of tv resume tapes are sites like medialine, rollcue.tv and digitaltalent where your material and resume is posted professionally and CLEAN. Sending a hiring manager to youtube.com/eastcoastproducer that plays your poor-quality video next to video recommendations and ads isn't going to score points.

Sending them to www.eastcoastproducer.com (http://www.eastcoastproducer.com) or the talent showcase or your cleanly-designed sites via rollcue.tv or digitaltalent is a MUCH better idea. I don't know the specifics on each of those sites, but if it offers you to show supplemental video in addition to your official resume tape, that's even better.

[Tlknghd]

Check out the "Meet Our Clients" page at TALENTapes for some good examples...
www.talentapes.com (http://www.talentapes.com)
while you are at it, might want to check out the Success Stories page to see some that obvious worked

[Obewon]

As someone else said, if a ND today can't play a DVD then that is a station you don't want to play WITH

[Gil]

Originally posted by Obewon:
As someone else said, if a ND today can't play a DVD then that is a station you don't want to play WITHIn my interim ND job at WNWO-TV in Toledo earlier this year, I had mostly VHS tapes and a few DVDs. I was there for three months and hired an anchor, a reporter and a producer as well as an associate producer who did not stay.

My procedure was to go through all the VHS tapes first... later, if time allowed, I would look at DVDs.

Some of the DVDs would not play in my computer, and those went into the circular file. ALL of the VHS tapes played just fine, and I did not have to figure out menus.

So, ask yourself this - do you want your work looked at first, or last? I can tell you this: If I found someone I liked on the VHS tapes, I was in no hurry to view the DVDs.

None of the people I hired were hired from DVDs. The anchor was hired after I viewed her work online.

[Northern Met]

Originally posted by eastcoast producer:
Future of tv resume tapes are sites like medialine, rollcue.tv and digitaltalent where your material and resume is posted professionally and CLEAN. Sending a hiring manager to youtube.com/eastcoastproducer that plays your poor-quality video next to video recommendations and ads isn't going to score points.With my tape on YouTube, not ONE of the dozens of NDs who I've contacted via e-mail for critiques in the past year has said "the audio/video is bad." This is probably because they only want to get an *idea* of what you look like and how you do, and then they ask for you to send a tape/DVD almost every time. Online access to your tape is online access to your tape. Though if I had to do it again, depending on the cost, I would probably go with one of the services you mentioned, partly because I would imagine an ND who sees "watch my tape at www.youtube.com/northernmet" ( http://www.youtube.com/northernmet") is going to think "YOUNG".

[ July 20, 2007, 07:55 PM: Message edited by: Northern Met ]

[Roy Hobbs]

Originally posted by Tlknghd:
Check out the "Meet Our Clients" page at TALENTapes for some good examples...
www.talentapes.com (http://www.talentapes.com)
Tell that dude in the lower right that Harrison Ford called and wants his John Book hairstyle back...
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Courtyard/1652/Media/HFord.jpg