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| Your Creative Work Ethic |
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| Sunday, 23 May 2010 00:00 |
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Recently I interviewed my friend, Rick Eisleben of REC Productions, for my book, Your Creative Drive. A talented Director of Photography and Camera Operator, Rick and I have worked on a number of projects over several years. During our conversation I asked him about the importance of a good reputation and a good work ethic. Here’s what Rick had to say… “Reputation is incredibly important to me from a hiring standpoint. Competence is essential. Attitude is a bonus factor too, and is necessary. Tying into that would be work ethic. You’ve got to have all three. But work ethic is probably the easiest one to see. If a guy is doing an extra amount of work, or helping his co-workers do a better job, that’s value added. A guy who only does his job, and is over on his cell phone trying to get his next job, or not paying attention to the director, shows a negative side. No matter how good you are you’ve lost the passion for the project. And I would rather have the people with the passion with slightly less experience on my crews. Maybe their passion will be contagious to the other guys on the crew and it will help bring their game up. If you get the right people in there the whole level of the production will come up – as opposed to an A-list crew waiting on the sideline for direction. I think a good B-crew, which works together, are the one’s who are going to achieve. For me it’s a personal thing. It may sound selfish, but it’s about feeling good about myself. When I get to the end of a production or the end of a day I ask myself, “Rick, did you do your very best today?” “There may have been things that went wrong, or could have been better, but I gave a 100% effort. If I can’t say that I did my best, I’ll stay awake all night trying to motivate myself to be better tomorrow. If everybody has that 100% attitude, there wouldn’t be bad days or bad productions. I believe: Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you respond to it. How you respond to what’s around you makes all the difference!” |
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