Work

I spent quite a few hours working on the Demo Reel today. About 4 hours on and off collecting projects and 4 hours so far working on assembling the demo with music and sound effects. I threw in the towel at 10PM tonight and figured I’d spend some good hours on it tomorrow. So much to do to get it at the level where I want it and I’m looking to take it on Wednesday for a client meeting.

And that brings me to the ultimate point. I have developed a level of perfectionism where it’ll take me hours and hours to do what is considered a basic project. When I do that, yes, the results are pretty damn impressive. But the problem is a lot of jobs become big daunting tasks. And then there’s the economic aspect. Those extra hours most of the time don’t mean extra pay – or in the case of my demo reel, there’s no pay. The only benefit of doing a damn good job on a demo reel is that I won’t have to remake it for an additional 5 months or so.

I was a bit worried that the last job I had at that P.O.S. production company really ruined me. We had so much to do and so little time that I really started to cut corners. To hell with quality… and there it didn’t matter one bit. First of all, nobody watched our stuff and most it was purely archival crap (records of events and whatnot). My boss didn’t understand the nature of our work and was always putting me on cleaning archive footage. Secondly, even if we ever got a chance to do something interesting, the morons outside the department wouldn’t be able to get it out there to the public.

So yeah, I really didn’t care about quality – good enough was the motto… and that really isn’t like me. And that (besides the special bus nature of the employees) was one of the reasons I walked from that hellhole.

So back I am, hammering away at a video projects heavily laddened with visual and audio effects. Looking at probably 16 hours or so for a video that’s slightly over 2 minutes. It’s tough and the progress is slow. I find it hard for me to throw myself into the stuff because of a lot of different reasons (laziness, slightly blue) but when I’m working, I find it hard to stop (I said I would stop at 8PM… I finally did at 10PM).

And then there’s the other things I didn’t get to do today… But it feels kinda good to be back. I hope it gets better.

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Well about 6 months I came on here and said Gospel John’s got a full time job… Before that I was wandering about freelancing.

Tonight, I officially quit. I handed them my notice last Monday and stuck around for one last boring event tonight. And boy what an event – it was a total and utter disaster. I’m going to try to share this story without revealing the names of those involved but it’ll be tough….

So the event tonight was a speaker from a local Indian Casino. Yesterday one of the organizers who works with the company comes up to us and says, “Can you make a powerpoint presentation for the speaker tomorrow. -he has a speech but no Powerpoint.”

WTF?

We said “no” yesterday. They come to us again today. We told them to do it themselves. So they agree and the go make their own powerpoint. Well the title of this guy’s speech is “T**** Casino: The Transition from Blight to Might”

These morons hand us a Powerpoint and they screwed up the title. It now read, “T**** Casion: The transition from Might to Blight”

Fuckin’ morons.

And then at 11:00AM, after we have everything packed up. They come to me and say, “We’re going to do a YouTube contest… make a slide for it”

Hmm… didn’t they know about this before… couldn’t they asked me yesterday when I was sitting in the studio doing something boring like organizing cables?

But I take the task with relish… besides… now’s my chance to fuck with them. So I make this slide with these fake YouTube screens with a picture of me, lonelygrl, Chris Crocker (“LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!!”) and a screeming animated rabbit. But I had to sneak it subtly into the slide so they wouldn’t pull it at the last minute. It makes it through (although you can’t make it out too well on the big screen)

So we get there at 2:00PM and spend about 2 hours setting up the lights in a movie theater for a speaker at a podium. About 4:30PM they tell us… “Oh yeah, we’re going to have rain dancers doing a little something in the front of the theater”

BUT THERE’S NO LIGHT FOR THEM!!! Oh yeah, they knew about it, they requested it – but they didn’t think it was important to tell the production people….

And there’s no agenda for the whole event. So I’m constantly running back to the character generator to type in the IDs of the speakers (we webcast this bullshit).

And not having an agenda means the two videos that we were suppose to show during the event… weren’t shown. Videos that I personaly had to convert into a format that was playable with our system.

Oh there’s more… but I won’t bore you with the details… besides, my former boss requested that I write a scathing report for him to send to the CEO (a.k.a. King Douchebag) because he’s a foreigner and not confident in his writing skills. I agreed… and now I’ve got to remember all the shit that went down.

What a friggin’ great way to go out!!!

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