I landed a compositing gig digitally removing logos from a short film titled "For Flow". It's 18 minutes long, and this is my first freelance job which was not a type project, but I'm happy I'm doing something new. This job isn't that hard, it's just extremely time consuming. At first I rotoscoped the first 12 seconds of the project then realized that I'd have to do over 20,000 frames individually so I've started experimenting with other workflows.
So far I've clocked in 9 hours of work today, and have done about 1 minute's worth of footage. I just stopped because my eyes can't even distinguish my masks from the footage. I should be speeding up my sessions, or else I'm going to have to lose some sleep to finish before its due date of the 3rd of December. This project will also being airing on HBO, not primetime, of course, but during the wee hours of the morning.
I just finished some ADR work (basically recording voice overs and dubs) for my class' short film, and I'm about to begin post sound this weekend. I honestly have no idea how to use Protools, or Soundboard, and may even begin editing on Final Cut just to avoid the technical learning curve, but this will only be the case if I find I don't have enough time to finish my freelance job.
Over the past months many people in my film production class began filming and a lot of people from different productions went out and helped each other shoot. Unfortunately for me, I recently discovered how much I kinda dislike production, and didn't help much during other people's shooting days. Luckily for everyone else, I love post production, and have decided to help another group composite out some mistakes for their film for free. I just wanted to exercise more compositing work, and also leap at a chance to use my ability to use After Effects for my film cohort so I can build connections as a post production visual effects guy.
And last, but not least, "Project X". It is a little behind schedule, but none-of-the-less, it's still being worked on with what little free time I have. Maybe I'll be able to finish it during Christmas break.
I haven't started at a computer screen this long since my last major type project. Time to call it a break from editing.
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