Demo Reel featured on Reel-Exchange.com
My demo reel just got featured in a weekly email for Digital Content Producer magazine. As a result, my reel was one of the top viewed videos of the week so it is also featured on their website at reel-exchange.com!
[tags] demo reel, Tostie Productions, Reel Exchange [/tags]
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]
Watch Over Me has wrapped, and now I begin my work as a Camera Production Assistant working on a new show currently titled Saints & Sinners. Supposedly, the title which was A Dangerous Love before S&S, will change yet again. Either way, this show should air starting in March and Watch Over Me will start airing in about a month, both on MyNetworkTV.
Tomorrow will be my first shooting day on this new show, and we’ll be shooting at a wherehouse down in the port district just south of the Convention Center. We’ll be there for a week or so before moving on to our next shooting location, which is still TBD.
I’m excited to be finally getting out of the office on a permanent basis, and the crew I’m going to be working with seem really happy to be working with me. Hopefully, I can figure out a way to get into the local camera union so that I can get a much better-paying job on the next show.
[tags] Watch Over Me, Saints & Sinners, Stu Segall, Fox, MyNetworkTV, My Network TV [/tags]
So after waiting around 4 weeks from my original request, I finally got a page on IMDB! Now, granted, I haven’t really worked much that counts towards IMDB, but hopefully within a few years you will see this page fill up with a ton of shows and movies!
On a somewhat similar note, Yellow Lights now has been sent off to the Phoenix Film Festival as well. We’ll hear back in Dec/Jan for that festival in April.
Now to go enjoy my 1-day weekend!
[tags] IMDB, Yellow Lights, movie, Hollywood, job [/tags]
We all decided in the office that the new name for our show Watch Over Me is now Walk All Over Me. Surprisingly, I still had enough energy to write this after just finishing a 17-hour shift with no lunch or dinner break (I did get food for lunch, just no break, but I didn’t get any dinner.)
Now for some well-earned sleep.
Today started just out like any other day at the office - stressful and full of things that need to get done. However, what made it different was that my boss and his boss who have side by side desks had a more escalated argument than usual which ended up in a couple FU’s going around and my boss packed up his stuff and quit.
So now as a result, I am now still a Office Production Assistant, but I am now an assistant to the Unit Production Manager, which to my understanding, is the boss of my former boss’ position, the Production Coordinator.
I definitely felt like I was in the middle of a domestic dispute or something when they were going off at each other. Now, I’m not from a divorced family so I can’t truly compare but it definitely felt like the type of thing where the Mom and Dad of the office were flipping out, deciding this was an unlivable situation, and the Dad up and leaving the family behind to deal with it on their own.
Anyone else been in similar situations?