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Then they see my work history and they think I'm throwing it all away...
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If you get jobs without it, who cares? Maybe you can get the better gigs with it.

I have problems finding motivation to do any of my own projects, and end up helping all my peers instead.
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Hear you on that one. I used to be a lot like that when I was pushing to get more experience under my belt. For me doing production sound and editing there's a fair bit of demand. With you doing grading, there's a demand for quality colorists. Someone has to fix up the coloring jobs I botch, right? lol
 
a7s is great.. you guys may have saw this shot already but this is me acting at 5am lol

a7sii camera and no light setup or color grading

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfblE6nCHT0

I have motivation problems when it comes to organizing all the dates for my crime thriller series.. i wish I had someone to take over that sort of stuff but I haven't earned the privilege.

I've never gotten a paid gig for anything but I don't really search them out and I'm more of a jack of all trades than a specialist in any one.
 
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a7sii camera and no light setup or color grading

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Man look at that... no lighting yet you can see so much... but also so much orange. I feel like if I can perfectly remove that orange but keep the detail, which with that much orange is hard, than I could get jobs due to the sheer number of a7s using indies nowadays.

(Actually... can one of you fine gentlemen send me some highest quality a7s footage? Just need any shot that has that high orange content... gonna try somethings... I'll exchange some 6K R3D later this month for it?)

I have motivation problems when it comes to organizing all the dates for my crime thriller series.. i wish I had someone to take over that sort of stuff but I haven't earned the privilege.
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An AD my friend... Mine's name is Emily. She is a god-send. Find one, make the friend. Without her I'd have no idea when to do anything.

An AD isn't a privilege, it's a hard job, and I'm sure an up-and-coming one would love the chance to get the experience of working a hectic schedule. I gave mine a 1 week notice and she took it as a challenge.

I've never gotten a paid gig for anything but I don't really search them out and I'm more of a jack of all trades than a specialist in any one.
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I think the best thing a "Jack of all Trades" can do is volunteer to work on a set full of more experienced people. I learned pretty much everything I know from offering to help people who are better than me. It was anything from wrangling extras to holding a bounce. Taking in the crew around me (even without actively doing it) has been a great education.
 
can one of you fine gentlemen send me some highest quality a7s footage? Just need any shot that has that high orange content...
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I'm not sure if I have anything that has high orange content, but I'll take a look. I think the closest I have is exterior at about 6am to 10am. Everything else was either overcast or we controlled the light with interior shooting. It'll be ProRes from the external recorder. I don't have any straight from the camera. That still work for you?

I'm not personally in need of the r3d 6k footage. I've had have enough access to Red to last me a lifetime. Maybe sfoster needs?

organizing all the dates [snip].. i wish I had someone to take over that sort of stuff but I haven't earned the privilege.
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Me and the missus were event managers for quite some time. The conversion over to PM and AD positions isn't as difficult as you'd expect. Early on, we did have a producer throw us in at the deep end for a feature length no-budget web series with an impossible schedule a little over a week out from shooting. That was... an experience. Come to think of it, I think we won some Web streaming awards for that one. No accounting for taste, is there?

Break down, scheduling etc. ends up being an easy part of pre production for us considering for events, it was common for us to schedule 12 months in advance.
 
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Man look at that... no lighting yet you can see so much... but also so much orange. I feel like if I can perfectly remove that orange but keep the detail, which with that much orange is hard, than I could get jobs due to the sheer number of a7s using indies nowadays.

(Actually... can one of you fine gentlemen send me some highest quality a7s footage? Just need any shot that has that high orange content... gonna try somethings... I'll exchange some 6K R3D later this month for it?)
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It's not in 4k.. and I doubt it's in prores. IDK what the a7sii natively films in I'm just guessing it's h.264
But I could send you that youtube clip or another scene which was actually filmed under yellow lights..


SkyCopeland said:
An AD my friend... Mine's name is Emily. She is a god-send. Find one, make the friend. Without her I'd have no idea when to do anything.

An AD isn't a privilege, it's a hard job, and I'm sure an up-and-coming one would love the chance to get the experience of working a hectic schedule. I gave mine a 1 week notice and she took it as a challenge.
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I was saying it's a privilege to HAVE an AD, not to be one.
Yeah it's hard and it sucks to do that on top of everything else, I am 100% of preproduction AND the AD/line producer. I'm just a nobody. I could only get 3 friends to show up as extras for the most important project I've ever done. Thank god for strangers. I had a stranger bring 3 friends of his. such a life saver, i got really lucky.

SkyCopeland said:
I think the best thing a "Jack of all Trades" can do is volunteer to work on a set full of more experienced people. I learned pretty much everything I know from offering to help people who are better than me. It was anything from wrangling extras to holding a bounce. Taking in the crew around me (even without actively doing it) has been a great education.
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Around here all the stuff I see created is more amateur than what I'm doing.
Unless I tried to get on the house of cards crew which isn't really my path.

I just want to create my superhero short.. and then maybe a feature afterward if I can come up with a good enough script. It'll either grab an audience or it won't but at least I tried.
 
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It's not in 4k.. and I doubt it's in prores. IDK what the a7sii natively films in I'm just guessing it's h.264
But I could send you that youtube clip or another scene which was actually filmed under yellow lights..
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Actually... that YouTube clip would do fine? Perhaps it'll be better to work in whatever a7s natively uses anyways.
That clip will work better than another under yellow lights as well. If it were under yellow lights, it won't be just the off-color produced by the a7s.

Around here all the stuff I see created is more amateur than what I'm doing.
Unless I tried to get on the house of cards crew which isn't really my path.

I just want to create my superhero short.. and then maybe a feature afterward if I can come up with a good enough script. It'll either grab an audience or it won't but at least I tried.
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I mean working with House of Cards for a season could drastically improve the quality of both your short and feature. It might not sound like it, but just absorbing the experience displayed around you makes a tremendous difference. Say you were a PA, when not doing something you should be close-ish to the AD anyways. Which will be you in ear shot of the director. Someone you can listen into and see how he operators. Half of what I do on a film set is eavesdrop on my higher-ups. Haha.
 
You can actually download any clip thats uploaded to youtube. I have a browser extension in firefox that puts a download button right there on the page. It's often my preferred method of watching videos because there are no ads in the middle and no buffering problems. But to make it easier i uploaded the clip to drive for you

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6rbenk8iyTrZW9hLXE1OGl6ZU0/view?usp=sharing

A guy in my circle of friends used to work the house of cards crew. He's really pretentious and yet I've never seen anything he's made. It's easy to have an attitude if you never take creative risks and expose yourself to judgement. I believe he went to full sail as well but he was fired from house of cards. not sure what he's doing now.

You might be right about experience on a big set helping to open my mind but I find it hard to imagine it would translate to my experience. Their director can dictate to professionals, meanwhile I am writing, securing locations myself, organizing everyones schedules, setting up the lights, holding the boom pole, directing the actors and editing the footage.
 
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You can actually download any clip thats uploaded to youtube. I have a browser extension in firefox that puts a download button right there on the page. It's often my preferred method of watching videos because there are no ads in the middle and no buffering problems. But to make it easier i uploaded the clip to drive for you

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6rbenk8iyTrZW9hLXE1OGl6ZU0/view?usp=sharing
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I know. I prefer not to download a YouTube compressed video though. The data is already compressed, I can't pull it out that way. Thanks for the link. ^_^

A guy in my circle of friends used to work the house of cards crew. He's really pretentious and yet I've never seen anything he's made. It's easy to have an attitude if you never take creative risks and expose yourself to judgement. I believe he went to full sail as well but he was fired from house of cards. not sure what he's doing now.
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I've been planning to make a video giving my thoughts about Full Sail once I graduate in May... (Won't risk it right now due to my Student Agreement).. but I'll say that generally I'm not a friend of Full Sail students. Like the OP of this thread, they are delusional and prats. They all love Tarantino and worship Spielberg.

80% of them think they are either the next great Director or DP. Me telling them they are insane has caused me to lose a few connections... but honestly I don't think they would have been worth keeping in my network anyways. Egos too out of check.

You might be right about experience on a big set helping to open my mind but I find it hard to imagine it would translate to my experience. Their director can dictate to professionals, meanwhile I am writing, securing locations myself, organizing everyones schedules, setting up the lights, holding the boom pole, directing the actors and editing the footage.
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You'd be surprised man. Give it a chance. If you're doing everything, then don't just watch the director. Watch the sound mixer, watch the boom op, watch the gaffer and key grips, watch whatever you think you could learn from.

Half of the rigs I use on sets, I've learned from working with other G&E. During lunches sometimes I chill with camera men and they tell me stuff about cameras and previous jobs. I got my best advise for dollying from pushing around a Union guy who came from Atlanta. Now I'm a better dolly grip thanks to a cam op I never knew before that production.
 
Haha I look forward to your blog in may. Any idea where you're moving after graduation?
 
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Haha I look forward to your blog in may. Any idea where you're moving after graduation?
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So many of the classmates I actually respect are going to Atlanta... but god I hate the South after being stuck here so much... and I'm sure as hell not going back to the New Orleans area...

Which leaves me with Los Angelos (well obviously a town near there).

I'm moving with my significant other (she's a make-up artist & YouTuber, she makes a decent bit)... we both have family near LA, so I'm not worried if we fall in hard times at first. Hopefully, though, I can find some grip work or get hired to be an staffed colorist :D
 
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Which leaves me with Los Angelos (well obviously a town near there).

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I liked my stay in Huntington Beach very much, but it might be a little too far away from LA (and pretty expensive, so near to the beach).
It seemed like there was a film crew on that beach every 2 or 3 days.
 
Funny how life coincides sometimes.. sky was just telling me to get out onto a professional film set.
Today there was a film "When love happens again" shooting on my street and at the neighbors house.

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Can't say I learned anything but I hung out with them for about 45 minutes til they wrapped the street shooting. Funny how they had like seven crew people and it still takes them just as long to get a shot as it does for me.

Lead actor said he's a main character on an african show called Tinsel.
He also said he writes and directs and has a short film that was accepted to cannes.. I immediately asked him if it was the short film corner (bc of that other thread from yesterday) and he said yes. Damn talk about topical I only just learned what that was yesterday.
 
I'm really uncertain if TheAuteur is a troll or not.
Constantly complains, refuses to takes advice, complete ignorance all around. This is the guy that asked for a 7 digits investment in an older thread, bragging about how good his shortfilm was and how it would make all invenstors drool. And yet it has the sound quality of a freaking student short film. Just lol, lol.

I highly restrain to bash other filmmakers, and I do respect TheAuteur for his progress, but rarely have I seen such ignorance.
 
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