Gottsman suggests a few canned phrases: "It's certainly entertaining," "It's certainly interesting," or the old standby, "I have a project I need to get done, if you'll excuse me".
I approached a company about a project I needed done and they insisted on doing the project for free because they wanted the exposure that working with me would bring them.
Here's an anecdote from my own archive of The Extraordinary Project: "I needed an answer to a cultural question once," said midwife and filmmaker Mary Sommers, who made the Detroit documentary, Tough Luck.
Naomi: I was handling a project for a multi-national as a project manager, and I did a bit of traveling around Nigeria; I was working on a school-channelled project that saw me covering quite a number of schools, and to execute that project, I needed to recruit people.
I had decided early on that to remain true to some extent to the story, to maintain some connection to the story or have some underlying veracity to the project, I needed to make the work in the same place, at the same time of year like Charlie and Caril Ann did.
Here a method is presented to cope with modern project necessities: (i) need of a model which gives accurate estimates covering a wide frequency range; (ii) reduce the personnel and time costs derived from the test campaign, (iii) reduce the computational effort without affecting the quality of the results.
"Even if people aren't aware of the temporary projects, I still need to make them," he said.
Over time, the projects I have need less and less modifications.
I direct it and I compose it, but while I shoot all my video projects I also need a video technician to transfer and to help in the editing process, in this case David Dempewolf.
"I realized that to write the best music I can I have to do projects I feel I need to do, to write completely on my own terms," Hersch said.
