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Web References
Most likely if you are the recipient of this e-mail, you are someone who I would regard close enough to me that I would value your professional opinion. A decision so weighty, that I would consider it being of utmost importance as the opinion to be waged is about me.
Here's the deal...I am in the process of developing a website for Media Revolution, Inc. On this site you would be able to check out my credentials, client list, resume and rate card. What I wish to do is to add a page of professional references. So in lieu of a downloadable demo reel (of which I intend to add when the technology improves) I would like for potential clients to be able to call or e-mail you directly for a good word. So hypothetically, you would receive a call from Steven Spielberg asking you for a recommendation on my shooting abilities. You would respond by saying that "although I am not certain that I have ever seen Ken shoot dramatic filmed reenactments of holocaust victims perishing in Nazi Germany, I can verify that he shot some really funky b-roll of squirrels frolicking in Central park last spring." And for that reference I would be most grateful. However, if you had lied and said to my new found friend Stevie that all he had to do was check out my camerawork on "Apocalypse Now" I would be more than grateful and add a lovely kickback, er, gratuity to your passbook account in the Cayman Islands.
I am also looking to pepper my site with a few quotes. So if you've got some clever idea, send it my way for potential use. For instance, one famous correspondent sent to me recently...Ken has a way of making my varicose veins nearly invisible!' Or the producer who sent in "Ken's work may be real mediocre, but he does a great Jewish accent and never complains when I don't feed him lunch!" A crew booker wrote..."He always answers his pages and calls within minutes to tell me that he is unavailable due to a previous booking -- so I gotta figure he must be good if everyone else is using him."
Thus you get the concept. Would you be so kind to reply to this e-mail at your leisure to authorize me to use you as a reference on my new website? Please include the way(s) you would prefer to be contacted (like that will ever really happen anyway). And of course, any snappy quotes would be welcome. PG-13 rating or lower please!