I got this PA job in a kind of random way. I received a facebook post that included someones name, their email address and that they needed a PA. So I emailed this random person, said I was available, and I got the job. Oh yeah, but it was unpaid, but sometimes when you’re just […]
Archive for September, 2011
PA Experience Part 4 – Crack Whore Galore
Posted: 24th September 2011 by Adrienne in Random Reflections0
So I got some pretty good hands-on experience working on a blast for the network, which was pretty interesting. A blast (I’m sure other networks call them something else, but whatever) in our case meant “a behind the scenes look at a film” where you take footage from the film and slice it together with […]
Last week the order came down that we needed to start work on “The Database.” This meant that the lowest level employee (basically a paid intern) got to bust my behind for a week straight while I scoured the servers looking for every single piece of media that had ever been worked on- including a […]
Got an email a few days after I finished working at my internship from the head editor of the company. Turns out he quit less than a week after I left. Can’t say I’m surprised. The workplace culture of fear there was just backwards and irrational- he was overworked, largely ignored, and constantly treated like […]
So working at my internship, there were certainly all kinds of little things to complain about. Keeping all of the footage on-network was not a good idea. We were hilariously understaffed. We could have used faster computers but again, these are all little issues, that you can deal with, and we dealt with those. But […]
If you want to work in post, you’re going to need thick-skin-it’s just a fact of life. You should know right now that Hollywood producers have a lot of talents, but ‘respectful criticism’ is not one. Watching my boss deal with his producer. The guy took a lot of crap. Sometimes the producer would come […]
Keep on keepin’ on.
Posted: 24th September 2011 by bgay0315 in A picture's worth a thousand words, and video is worth a million!, Notes to Sequence 64So I’ve been reading some of the other posts from “Notes From the 4th Wall” particularly this one, from Eric Lee. Writers always write! He says! Keep training, always, even if you don’t have work! That’s how you’ll get good enough to get work! It’s great advice for people of any profession- editors included. My roommate […]
I remembered an interesting conversation I had with some of the people at work about resumes and cover letters, and so forth- it’s who you know, not what you know. Case in point one of my coworkers had heard through the grapevine that Nickelodeon was hiring, but when she checked the website? Nothing there, even though […]
Logging Hell
Posted: 24th September 2011 by bgay0315 in A picture's worth a thousand words, and video is worth a million!, Random ReflectionsIt’s a tough job to watch all the crap the network puts out, but somebody has to do it. And by ‘somebody’, I typically mean the intern. A pretty huge part of my job was logging footage for these old kung-fu movies the network airs. About 98% they’re terrible- they make no sense, they’re dubbed […]
Sometimes editing can be fun and exciting work. Other times, it’s boring and tedious to the point of total misery. That’s why I’d probably say endurance is the most important trait to have in terms of being an editor. Technical ability is important I would say, but the endurance to last through both tedium and […]