OT: Telly Awards

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I found out today a documentary I worked on won a Silver Telly Award, and I'm wanting to know how proud to be of this :-). Is this something that is pretty respected? Should I put it on my web site, my resume? I don't want to be the guy who people laugh at, saying, "Man, he fell for the Telly Awards scam." I guess I'm kind of skeptical that I need to pay $150 to accept the award. Any experience with this?
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I used to have a cabinet full of them, Tellys, Cindys, Addys, Local Emmys, when I had a bigger office with clients streaming in and out. To me, awards mean nothing, they are only good for impressing clients and possibly getting you continued/more $$$.

IMHO, if you have an office with clients who are walking past them, makes sense. If not, you are wasting your money and stroking your ego. You know if your work is good, paying someone else to validate your opinion is lame.

It would be different if you weren't paying for it.

Dan

YOu have to pay to get your telly? $150 for the statue? Sheesh...

Just accept the accolade and say "Winner of 2007 Silver Telly" on your website or something.

Do they at least give you a piece of paper to frame?


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Telly's aren't a scam James, you should be proud. Stick it on the resume, I'm sure there'll be more to follow. Well done.

May not be a scam but charging you $150 to pick up your trophy? That isn't right.

Michael Horton
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If I remember correctly, it was $65 to enter. Then, if you win, you pay an "Acceptance Fee" of $150, which comes along with the trophy and a certificate.

So while the money part is kinda shady (although, I'm not sure what business model would be better), I'll definitely include this on my resume, include something on my web site, etc.

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The Silver is the highest honor (except for the 25th Anniversary Telly - which is gold). Telly's do have a certain amount of prestige and do get a lot of press. They are International as well as National Awards and look GREAT on a resume / website. It is definitely something to list on your resume. I won 9 Telly's (2 Gold / 3 Silver / 4 Bronze) and if you have an employer that values you as an asset to their team, they will pay for your trophy (they paid for mine).

FWIW...the trophies are manufactured by R.S. Owens - the same manufacturer as the Oscar & Emmy. They're beautiful trophies (heavy suckers, too!) and you can have them inscribed any way you like (character / line limit).

Side note: Some folks aren't into receiving Awards for their work. The work is the reward...and that's cool. Clients aren't Artists and when they look to us for creative solutions to their visions, a showcase full of Awards show them that the industry we are in recognizes us and I believe shows the client that they are in good hands. They have definitely helped me land gigs.

When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.

Me too, me too. I got one. For my Leopard training disc for Class on Demand.

Sadly, my "company" basically accounts to an account at my college with about $1000, to be split up between the four film makers and the college (they gave us the grant.) So really, it's coming out of my pocket either way.

Hehe... my Telly will look funny sitting in my "office" (aka my dorm room).
I'm still surprised that we got a Telly for a 30 minute documentary we did on a $5000 budget.

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Still in college?? EVEN BETTER to come out of college with a Nationally recognized Award under your belt.

CONGRATS!!

When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.

Yes, congrats James! Very cool.

Michael Horton
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James,

That's AWESOME! Eat it up!

This brought up some memories from back when I was an audio mastering engineer. I received notice from one of our record companies that I was working for that one of our projects had gone Platinum and two others had gone Gold. I said great will I be receiving a palque for my studio. They said sure.... send us $1,500 each. Needless to say, these projects live on only in my memory :-).

Steve

> I'm still surprised that we got a Telly for a 30 minute documentary we did on a $5000 budget.

Content is everything...ideas, passion and talent are more important than money. Good for you.


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[the trophies are manufactured by R.S. Owens - the same manufacturer as the Oscar & Emmy. They're beautiful trophies (heavy suckers, too!) and you can have them inscribed any way you like (character / line limit). ]

This is the silver guy with the television in his stomach? Oh, yes, very prestigious. Worked on several.

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No, Loren...THIS is a Telly:



When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.

When I moved out of my office, I ended up throwing about $5,000.00 worth of those and all of the other ones away because I had no place at the new office to keep them. I should have put them up on Ebay I guess?

Nice looking award but do you know many people who entered the Telly Awards and didn't win something? The ratio of winners is pretty high, I think that they have an interesting business model going ;-) Looks good on your CV and reel but do you really want a $150.00 paperweight with your student loan debts?

Sorry, I just can't help it!

Dan

But I heard chicks dig Telly award winners. That counts for something.



Michael Horton
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Not my wife but maybe because she had to pay half ;-)

Yeah, I bet college age chicks get all weak kneed from those Telly awards. I am going to tell my daughter to watch out for those guys when she hits college!

D

Telly's look good, especially in industrial work. But they are not that hard to get and they give away a lot of them. They have to charge for the statues because the awards are all this organization does. Unlike NATAS or AMPAS where they give relatively few away and pay for them with profits from the broadcast. If you win you get the certificate. But you pay for the statue. And they are kind of nice.

A lot of production companies (industrials) I have worked for will order one for the client if the show wins. You can order extras if you want and since clients more or less are the executive producers on an industrial it's easy to order one for them. That makes the producing client look really good to his or her boss.

But which award had the silver guy with the television in his stomach?

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That's the "BELLY" Award

Seriously...couldn't tell ya...have never seen anything of that type (couldn't even GOOGLE it).

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It is in this photo here on the left. Picture too small to see what kind of award it is but it may be a Telly before the current design came into use.

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Loren, I think you're thinking of Allen Sherman's version of the 12 Days of Christmas

"... a statue of a Buddha with a clock in his stomach,
and a Japanese transistor ra-di-o!""

or not

Scott

I think Loren's smoking some really good weed.

Michael Horton
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What did the old CABLE ACE awards look like?

Oh, yeah...a giant spade.


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It's a Logie, Australian television industry awards,

Mio



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oh, no, not the Logies!

they're probably our biggest media awards,
but they're not much more than a popularity contest run by the local "TV Guide" type magazine.

i like the statuette. it's kinda cute, and i like that it hasn't been changed much since the 50's/60s,
but that tv set is nowhere near the figure's stomach


and in case you're wondering, they're named after John Logie Baird, one of the early inventors of TV.


nick

Here is a really blurry picture of a Telly circa '94 that was awarded for a project on which I was the assistant editor.



The Telly in the Belly design gave way to the current one Joe posted sometime after the mid-90's. That's all I know.

Sorry for the quality of the photo. It was one of the first shots I took with my iPhone. I found the statue when I was freelancing for the company that bought my old company. It was high on a dusty shelf in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the leopard".

The editor, let alone the assistant, never received a statue. The company paid for it. The company got it. The company sold it like it was a bank of VHS duplicators.



deb

Loren. Debe and others

but there was a 1st first Telly.... man holding wreath looked sorrta like an Oscar

2ed Telly same as above but man holding tv near belly


third telly is the one they shoed on the final cut users group
please post to the final cut board as I do not have an id there. I will try to sign on and post but if you do not see it there in the morning go ahead and post away..


We look for older Tellys and other awards for the communications museum at www.smecc.org I was sad to read of the guy that threw his away..


thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC and director courygraph productions


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> Here is a really blurry picture of a Telly circa
> '94 that was awarded for a project on which I was
> the assistant editor.
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> [i48.photobucket.com]
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> The Telly in the Belly design gave way to the
> current one Joe posted sometime after the
> mid-90's. That's all I know.
>
> Sorry for the quality of the photo. It was one of
> the first shots I took with my iPhone. I found the
> statue when I was freelancing for the company that
> bought my old company. It was high on a dusty
> shelf in a disused lavatory with a sign on the
> door saying "Beware of the leopard".
>
> The editor, let alone the assistant, never
> received a statue. The company paid for it. The
> company got it. The company sold it like it was a
> bank of VHS duplicators.
>
>
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> deb