So it’s already April ‘07. Almost a year since I graduated?! Almost five years since I graduated high school?!?!? It just seems crazy that a year ago, I just had finished shooting Yellow Lights, and we were making final plans for the Senior Week and the MotoSCOPE team was getting ready to go to Chicago to present our final version of Traces to Motorola.
Well, since I last posted about my life, my job, etc., there has been some fairly dramatic changes. I finished work on Saints & Sinners, the crappy telenovela airing Wed nights on MyNetworkTV, and decided it was in my best interest to move onto better work.
After a month of scattered freelance work (which included shooting a music video for Nico Stai, being a Camera Op and Assistant Director on a week-long start-to-finish short film, assisting on a green screen commercial for the Disney Channel, and shooting a wedding), I finally found work for a very small production company in San Diego named Imageworks (not to be confused with the divison of Sony Pictures). There, my official title is Associate Producer but I am kind of a editor/pa/office asst and will be working mostly on private and corporate videos. Not the goal of working as a Producer on big budget movies, but I still feel it is a step in the right direction.
However, since the job with Imageworks is only part-time (~20-30 hrs/wk), I also just started work as an Assistant Field Manager for Image Quest World Wide basically hawking credit cards at San Diego Padres games. I managed to get the position of Asst Field Manager by using my experience working with confidential info in the Olin Office of Admission as well as my experience working as a Registration Supervisor for BOMA’s International Conferences to get a pay bump and essentially become a Marketing Rep . Last night was the home-opener for the Padres and thus my first night hawking credit cards. Within 5 minutes of pitching Padres fans of the wonders of the credit card and free gift that they would get, I felt dirty for becoming one of those guys that you just hate to deal with (telemarketers, door-to-door salesmen, anyone related to the IRS…). I’m just looking at this as a way to help supplement my income (pay is pretty decent) and a cool way to partake in the Petco Park ambience that I love so much.
So pretty much the two of those jobs mixed with some additional freelance work as a camera operator/assistant is what my life consists of right now.
I have come up with a potential title for the next movie that I’ve been working on, Perfect Attendance. I’m actually curious to see what imagery comes to the minds of you all readers from this title. Leave me a comment with what it makes you think of. I’ve also parked the site perfectattendancemovie.com just in case this movie goes somewhere. I don’t want to give away any story details yet, but it’d essentially be a PG-13 comedy.
On a totally random note, one of the Wired bloggers used one of my photos taken from the 6th Floor Museum in Dallas as the graphic for a blog post about the JFK conspiracy. Very cool to see how many random places photos I’ve taken turn up around the web, including some foreign language entries in Wikipedia and a Dutch article about a new Web 2.0 company. I think the age of stock photography/footage is starting to die out as more and more amateur photographers/videographers post their content online with a Creative Commons license.
Hopefully, I’ll get back in the habit of doing more regular posting. Until then, Go Padres!
[tags] Imageworks, movie, Perfect Attendance, JFK, Wired, Padres, San Diego[/tags]