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o1. First thing's first - ticket to LA = booked. I'm leaving a week from today! I'll be there for sure until mid-March/early-April for shooting, and then they said I can either stay in LA for the editing or I can just do it back home. I absolutely love that, it takes a ton of pressure off. Because going into this I had assumed I'd need to be there until at LEAST the end of summer, and possibly permanently. I can choose to stay there longer, but it's nice to know that I only absolutely *have* to be there for two months. Fucking one-way ticket, high five.
I had a Skype call with Lindsey and our producer, I freaked out kind of after the fact and so did the producer because I guess she was under the assumption that I was a frickin' seasoned DP or something? She got worried that I didn't have a ton of video-shooting experience. I don't think it matters much because I feel like if I can frame, make people look good, and find emotional impact in a still shot, that will help tremendously with framing, making people look good, and finding emotional impact in a moving shot. No I don't know all of the cameras but technology can be learned, and I'm a fast learner. I sent her an email about all of this per Lindsey's suggestion to just be frank and honest - I haven't heard back yet but I really hope I alleviated some of her stress/worry. I talked to Lindsey one-on-one and that really helped too, because I could be myself and freak out a little. It also helped to hear that they sound pretty flexible. Producer said I'd have a team of editors (up to three other people) so I asked how that would work and she said it was up to me - if I want to do it all myself, that's fine, or if I find that I really like their styles, I can have them make me a rough cut and then give them notes to fix before they bring me a new one and I love everything about that, I love the choice I seem to have.
I don't know what my official title is, but it sounds a lot like (creative) directing. I get my editors, a couple of cameramen, and I get to sit down with Lindsey (who is producing) every week and write interviews for our crew and talent, and just generally decide what we're going to focus on in accordance with each particular episode. We'll be working with kids (♥!!), funky weird directors, cool costumes and set pieces; I'm getting more and more excited the closer it gets... even though I'm freaking the fuck out about lighting my interviews, which is just fucking stupid and I don't know why I keep focusing on that. Probably just to distract myself from everything else I should be stressing out about lol. I just hope that it's a cultural fit and that we all learn how each other works early on. I hope I find a place and am able to prove myself because I know that this behind-the-scenes stuff is something that I'm absolutely perfect for. I have a lot to offer. They also have a couple of other shows going on that desperately need stills, and I am ESPECIALLY fucking excited for that because I rock at stills and genuinely love doing them. Genuinely a stress-reliever for me, so that will be tremendous in the midst of everything else busy.
o2. Speaking of ~stills~,
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o3. My cousin (beautiful girl on the left up there) had a golden Sweet Sixteen, so she had a party. I spent most of it photoshopping album covers and it was pretty standard BUT at one point I noted that my great uncle Mike got a Facebook. And it's The Best because he's like 70. And then my grandma's like (totally all nonchalant), "Yeah, I set it up for him. And then Diane (her sister) got all butthurt because he was getting all these comments and she wasn't." And I just love that that naturally just came out of her mouth. We died.
o4. But yes, the album covers! ~Tim Mahoney~, who you may know from The Voice (I don't remember how far he actually got but he was on Adam's team, the one that sounded like a girl lol), just released a song for a local high school hockey player who was checked illegally from behind and is now paralyzed, never to walk or skate again, it's so sad. So Tim wrote and recorded a song and put out a call to graphic designers to make a cover. He did this with his last single but I didn't participate. I immediately wished I had when I saw the "finalists", because they were ALL fucking ugly as SIN, and so incredibly rudimentary. The entries for this song are much better. I made two, and then some other woman posted a really great cover and I got so upset and competitive, it's like a fucking disease. I liked her cover better (even though her text is fucked) and regardless of if I win or not, I absolutely cannot have that. I need to subjectively like my own work more in order to be okay with shit. So I made another and am content regardless of the outcome now.
o5. What else did I do this week... my mom and I went to ~happy hour~ after work on Wednesday, she had zsa zsa zsu with our waiter and that shit fascinates me to no end, inherent chemistry like that. The older I get, the more aware I am of the fact that we are animals. It sucks to think that way but it does make some things a hell of a lot easier to understand. We got orange drinks, huge cones of DELICIOUS (this is like, the most popular word in my vocabulary right now, I have no idea why or where it started) french fries and pizza. We went across the street to meet up with her bf and then Jason. I got a bitchin' pear margarita or some shit, and then my mom talked me into getting this corn on the cob with fucking cheese on it, I thought it sounded like ass, she assured me it wasn't, and what do you know - it was definitely ass. Ugh ugh, traumatic. I have more to bitch about but I'm too tired lol. I need to blog 4x a day like I used to.
I had a Skype call with Lindsey and our producer, I freaked out kind of after the fact and so did the producer because I guess she was under the assumption that I was a frickin' seasoned DP or something? She got worried that I didn't have a ton of video-shooting experience. I don't think it matters much because I feel like if I can frame, make people look good, and find emotional impact in a still shot, that will help tremendously with framing, making people look good, and finding emotional impact in a moving shot. No I don't know all of the cameras but technology can be learned, and I'm a fast learner. I sent her an email about all of this per Lindsey's suggestion to just be frank and honest - I haven't heard back yet but I really hope I alleviated some of her stress/worry. I talked to Lindsey one-on-one and that really helped too, because I could be myself and freak out a little. It also helped to hear that they sound pretty flexible. Producer said I'd have a team of editors (up to three other people) so I asked how that would work and she said it was up to me - if I want to do it all myself, that's fine, or if I find that I really like their styles, I can have them make me a rough cut and then give them notes to fix before they bring me a new one and I love everything about that, I love the choice I seem to have.
I don't know what my official title is, but it sounds a lot like (creative) directing. I get my editors, a couple of cameramen, and I get to sit down with Lindsey (who is producing) every week and write interviews for our crew and talent, and just generally decide what we're going to focus on in accordance with each particular episode. We'll be working with kids (♥!!), funky weird directors, cool costumes and set pieces; I'm getting more and more excited the closer it gets... even though I'm freaking the fuck out about lighting my interviews, which is just fucking stupid and I don't know why I keep focusing on that. Probably just to distract myself from everything else I should be stressing out about lol. I just hope that it's a cultural fit and that we all learn how each other works early on. I hope I find a place and am able to prove myself because I know that this behind-the-scenes stuff is something that I'm absolutely perfect for. I have a lot to offer. They also have a couple of other shows going on that desperately need stills, and I am ESPECIALLY fucking excited for that because I rock at stills and genuinely love doing them. Genuinely a stress-reliever for me, so that will be tremendous in the midst of everything else busy.
o2. Speaking of ~stills~,
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o3. My cousin (beautiful girl on the left up there) had a golden Sweet Sixteen, so she had a party. I spent most of it photoshopping album covers and it was pretty standard BUT at one point I noted that my great uncle Mike got a Facebook. And it's The Best because he's like 70. And then my grandma's like (totally all nonchalant), "Yeah, I set it up for him. And then Diane (her sister) got all butthurt because he was getting all these comments and she wasn't." And I just love that that naturally just came out of her mouth. We died.
o4. But yes, the album covers! ~Tim Mahoney~, who you may know from The Voice (I don't remember how far he actually got but he was on Adam's team, the one that sounded like a girl lol), just released a song for a local high school hockey player who was checked illegally from behind and is now paralyzed, never to walk or skate again, it's so sad. So Tim wrote and recorded a song and put out a call to graphic designers to make a cover. He did this with his last single but I didn't participate. I immediately wished I had when I saw the "finalists", because they were ALL fucking ugly as SIN, and so incredibly rudimentary. The entries for this song are much better. I made two, and then some other woman posted a really great cover and I got so upset and competitive, it's like a fucking disease. I liked her cover better (even though her text is fucked) and regardless of if I win or not, I absolutely cannot have that. I need to subjectively like my own work more in order to be okay with shit. So I made another and am content regardless of the outcome now.
o5. What else did I do this week... my mom and I went to ~happy hour~ after work on Wednesday, she had zsa zsa zsu with our waiter and that shit fascinates me to no end, inherent chemistry like that. The older I get, the more aware I am of the fact that we are animals. It sucks to think that way but it does make some things a hell of a lot easier to understand. We got orange drinks, huge cones of DELICIOUS (this is like, the most popular word in my vocabulary right now, I have no idea why or where it started) french fries and pizza. We went across the street to meet up with her bf and then Jason. I got a bitchin' pear margarita or some shit, and then my mom talked me into getting this corn on the cob with fucking cheese on it, I thought it sounded like ass, she assured me it wasn't, and what do you know - it was definitely ass. Ugh ugh, traumatic. I have more to bitch about but I'm too tired lol. I need to blog 4x a day like I used to.