>>64966352>And frankly the studio booking is probably still a messIt was definitely a mess this year, so that's confirmed.
>For ENs it would be harder to agree when to do it since they may have bunch of personal stuff planed for any given month.Being charitable to Cover, I could absolutely see something like this being the case. Fragmented availability windows are a bitch.
>Talent: I need to record and get a live produced for event ABC.>Production staff: That will need at least 4 days.>P: Here are 4 days 1 or 2 weeks apart each time, filling 2 months and requiring either extended stays or multiple flights and hotel bookings to accommodate.>T: That doesn't work>P: I'll get back to you with a contiguous date, at a later time.>time passes...>T: So about that 3D live?>P: ...., oh what? We're working on something else now, you'll need to book later or skip this year for that.The above is a work of fiction, a farce, a fabrication, but professionals deal with that all the time. Substitute "time in studio" for "time to lay gravel and do a cement pour", it's the same problem. There's no tidy way to fix it, since neither party can realistically budge on dates, and there's not enough priority to open more space or money to have the talent do the commute multiple times.
