Suzie’s House 475 : Working vs Not Working

“It’s jarring.” Miranda’s co-worker stooped to see what was on her screen.

“Jarring’s not bad. Necessarily.” She sounded too hopeful even in her own ears.

“You should just use the canned music. It’s cheaper anyway, isn’t it?” The guy gave her a pat on the shoulder before exiting her cubicle.

Miranda heaved a sigh as she dropped her head to her desk. She had just barely avoided an irritable comeback to his well meaning comment. A couple of years ago she wouldn’t have hesitated. Suzie and Vin had cured her.

Using canned music on top of all the money she’d put into producing this soundtrack would most certainly not be cheaper. Worse, she was already massively over budget. But her co-workers were right. The catchy song she thought would give her ads an edge seemed affected when placed over cheaply made shots from a local used car lot.

“Crud.” She slammed a fist into her desk.

There was no way around it. She couldn’t tie any of the kid’s band’s music to this advertiser. It just didn’t work. But this was her biggest account. She’d counted on it to cover the production costs.

Well, there were other advertisers. Miranda pulled up her next biggest account and considered ways to combine a furniture store’s needs and the songs at her disposal from what the recording studio had sent over.

Maybe. Yeah, maybe, but there was no way she’d be able to charge enough to cover the studio’s most recent bill.

Just why had the production costs become so astronomical in the first place? The billing for studio time alone was three times as much as she’d budgeted for, and they still weren’t done!

She’d planned on covering any shortages from her own pocket, but her pockets weren’t that deep! At this rate she’d have to take out a loan the size of a mortgage and spend the rest of her life paying it off.

She sat up straight. Her whole project had become infected with some kind of bad luck virus. She needed to figure out where it went wrong and fix it as quickly as possible.

First stop – the studio. She needed to see for herself just what was going on there.

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