DandyFop
06-19-2006, 02:24 PM
So. The director's assistant thing I talked about before, the guy never called me. I tried contacting him but he's been ignorning me. I think they got someone else and he feels bad. Whatever, fuck em.
My friend knows a woman who is directing a documentary, and apparently she really needs someone with a sense of humor to edit it. I guess the guy editing now is really great, but is fairly serious (also, he is moving to London soon, and it's too hard to do all the communication that long distance when she lives in Salt Lake). So, my friend recommended me, and her and I have been talking. The documentary is kind of strange, it's about a guy who spent 8 1/2 years (full time) on one portrait of Marilyn Monroe. He did it at 20 times magnification, so basically a days work would be about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. No joke. It's a very very interesting look into the world of art, and what makes art, who decides, etc. His whole goal is to show it to this famous British artist (I'm leaving out names because I wouldn't want this post to come up in a net search or something). So while I'm interested and excited in this, I also feel totally out of my league. This woman went to Harvard, she's been a writing professor, she worked for NPR, needless to say she is an intellectual and a very creative person. I just don't have those same kinds of passions - I love film, but I go back and forth between it being art and entertainment. And I can't really "talk art" or anything.
I mean, I'm giving this my best shot but I'm also totally freaked out. She really wants someone who can edit on Avid, which I've worked on, but it's been a long time, and I'm not as up to par as she needs (which I told her). I think more than anything it's going to depend on if it seems like we would work well together. So scary though...I mean, this film has already been creating a lot of buzz over the past few years as she's been working on it, and they are planning on sending it to Sundance. One of the executive producers worked on Born Into Brothels...this is some major shit. I really hope I can impress her enough to work with her. She wanted me to show her some of my films, and I'm so fucking lame that the only one I had copies of was this shitty one that I did for my very first film class. I'm trying to get a copy of my documentary which is a ton better but it's on a DVC Pro tape which I have to go to the University to transfer.
I don't think anyone will really read this, but I'm just wigging out a little bit. I don't feel like the kind of person who has this intuitive artistry thing...
My friend knows a woman who is directing a documentary, and apparently she really needs someone with a sense of humor to edit it. I guess the guy editing now is really great, but is fairly serious (also, he is moving to London soon, and it's too hard to do all the communication that long distance when she lives in Salt Lake). So, my friend recommended me, and her and I have been talking. The documentary is kind of strange, it's about a guy who spent 8 1/2 years (full time) on one portrait of Marilyn Monroe. He did it at 20 times magnification, so basically a days work would be about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. No joke. It's a very very interesting look into the world of art, and what makes art, who decides, etc. His whole goal is to show it to this famous British artist (I'm leaving out names because I wouldn't want this post to come up in a net search or something). So while I'm interested and excited in this, I also feel totally out of my league. This woman went to Harvard, she's been a writing professor, she worked for NPR, needless to say she is an intellectual and a very creative person. I just don't have those same kinds of passions - I love film, but I go back and forth between it being art and entertainment. And I can't really "talk art" or anything.
I mean, I'm giving this my best shot but I'm also totally freaked out. She really wants someone who can edit on Avid, which I've worked on, but it's been a long time, and I'm not as up to par as she needs (which I told her). I think more than anything it's going to depend on if it seems like we would work well together. So scary though...I mean, this film has already been creating a lot of buzz over the past few years as she's been working on it, and they are planning on sending it to Sundance. One of the executive producers worked on Born Into Brothels...this is some major shit. I really hope I can impress her enough to work with her. She wanted me to show her some of my films, and I'm so fucking lame that the only one I had copies of was this shitty one that I did for my very first film class. I'm trying to get a copy of my documentary which is a ton better but it's on a DVC Pro tape which I have to go to the University to transfer.
I don't think anyone will really read this, but I'm just wigging out a little bit. I don't feel like the kind of person who has this intuitive artistry thing...