Of course, a composer's perspective, because that's what I do!
1) Don't do anything on Friday night. Get a good night's sleep. The concept the writers have at 9pm will not be the same as the script they have at 3am. All the cool cues you started will be inappropriate and you'll just wear yourself down.
2) I learned what Dubstep is!
3) I learned that what they were looking for was not, in fact, dubstep, but regular old dub. This is because the former is trendy, but that doesn't mean people will know the term of the latter (despite the style being around since the 60s...but I digress)
4) I learned I have no really usable saxaphone sounds for a jazzy soloist.
5) I learned that avoiding this problem because it had come up before is not a solution. Sometimes the director just REALLY wants a sax and will turn down many superior sketches until they get one.
6) I learned that I *really* need to get my team a sound guy. I had kinda assumed that, but thought maybe things had changed in a year. They hadn't.
7) Whenever you take a break to do a fast food run is EXACTLY when the director will call to go over drafts with you. And just because you usually have a notebook on hand doesn't mean you shouldn't double check before getting in the car.
8) I learned that just because you are uploading final .wavs to a shared collection on google docs does NOT mean the individual files are shared, unless you specify.
All this and so much more! I give my performance this year a B-, but my work was better than last year, which is the important part.
I know there are lots of 48hfp-ers around, what have you learned this year?
1) Don't do anything on Friday night. Get a good night's sleep. The concept the writers have at 9pm will not be the same as the script they have at 3am. All the cool cues you started will be inappropriate and you'll just wear yourself down.
2) I learned what Dubstep is!
3) I learned that what they were looking for was not, in fact, dubstep, but regular old dub. This is because the former is trendy, but that doesn't mean people will know the term of the latter (despite the style being around since the 60s...but I digress)
4) I learned I have no really usable saxaphone sounds for a jazzy soloist.
5) I learned that avoiding this problem because it had come up before is not a solution. Sometimes the director just REALLY wants a sax and will turn down many superior sketches until they get one.
6) I learned that I *really* need to get my team a sound guy. I had kinda assumed that, but thought maybe things had changed in a year. They hadn't.
7) Whenever you take a break to do a fast food run is EXACTLY when the director will call to go over drafts with you. And just because you usually have a notebook on hand doesn't mean you shouldn't double check before getting in the car.
8) I learned that just because you are uploading final .wavs to a shared collection on google docs does NOT mean the individual files are shared, unless you specify.
All this and so much more! I give my performance this year a B-, but my work was better than last year, which is the important part.
I know there are lots of 48hfp-ers around, what have you learned this year?
