the college actually looked for people desireing contracters for jobs, then they just told there liasons to contact us. and now ive done..... 3 videos for local councils, and my teacher training one for nationwide release wich i should be finishing this month ive got no pay but my name on credits so its the beginnings of a showreel yknow?
In fact i was told today in a lecture that in between the end of this year in 6 weeks and the start of the next one in september its MANDATORY to have done a few projects on your own were you scout out jobs and do them, if you havent done one you dont get into the second year.
but its all a good kick up the arse really, in 6 weeks ill have a moderatly proffessional website, a small showreel and filmmakers CV and loads of knowledge about working more advanced programs, including special effects and stuff like the 50 odd page production packs a proffesional filmmaker has to do for each project (i was up till midnight wokring on one of those sumbitches....)
ive actually sort of held off job searching because by the ned of the 2nd year, if i can finish and keep a high calibre of work im sure ill be working proffessionally, the way this course is done you cant not be.
theyve advised to start on weddings, so other people there will see you, ask for a buisness card and then call up for there own weddings, but the responsibility of recording someones wedding is a bit heavy yknow?, im gonna try for more public info vids and whatnot first.
but yeah, to get the work make sure even the most insigniicant stuff you film is shot in a crowded area, someone will allways ask what its about and you never know if youll be speaking to your next hirer yknow?
but overall its not bad, ive got a mac and proffessional editing suites coming next week, a good film camera a few weeks after, and my prof said the school actually turned away requests for us to do videos and said he could, on the sly, pass them onto us to do them ourselves outside of school for moolah for a 2 year course and only 4 grand its definatley worth it, weve covered animation, special effects, blue screen subtitling, commentarys, set building, weve had free runs of buses and bus stations, entire schools and overall im really glad i took the course, like mz said its a small step up the ladder only, but its a good start to give you a rounded base to start a career from.
im still working on my own stuff, in fact i might, might, be working on something to finally put up on here, just somethign to get me into using my new imac and adobe master collection package and whatnot, ive gotta say though, coinciding with what the guy behind night ''07 said, ive kinda grown tired of , not wathcing horror, god no, but i dont feel the drive to make one myself right now, in fact ive wavered more and more to comedy over the last year, ive been working on a script right now thats got bits fo spaced, superbad and haggard all mixed together, yknow, quotes shamelessly stolen kvein smith style and the like, cus who doesnt like a good ghostbusters or back to the future reference?
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