Second Day at Complete Post

Met Michael Warden today, he is the guy who gave me the opportunity to have this work experience opportunity!! He told me that I was at a perfect timing as there are so much work arrived at complete post and suddenly I contact him.......what a perfect match!! I am relieved.

Today, what we are going to do is to start digitizing all the shots into the system.

We are using Final Cut Pro HD for the editing and its the first time for me to use this system.

There are totally 5 hours of footage that we have to digitize and its a massive job!! I dont think we can finish everything for today.

The best way to do it is to do it. WE started digizing the shots reel by reel starting from tape number one. The system automatically cue the in and out points of every shots and start capturing it. During the capture, it allows me to have time to chk all the logging that I did yesterday to make sure that all the shots were all right.

There were a few t/c breaks and the system automatically track the remaining shots but still, I don't know what its going to do to the actual edit.

I have added 1 seconds handle to all the shots just for safety.

For the whole day, there were 2 major system crash, but most of the media were still there, just that some in and out points were lost and I have to manually punch in all the right ones , like +100, -100, media start, media end, mark in, mark out.

I did have previous experience as an assistant editor, and it relaly helps in this job. Time code is such an important knowledge for editors and to understand it, the best way is to type them in and see what they actually does. I can call my self a semi professional on timecodes. I discovered a few problems of the system and the good thing is that Chris really appreciates it.

My approach to this experience is to show off my capabilities and trying to impress them, so that if I want to get more experience later on, they would let me. I have asked for 2 extra dates next week ( monday and tuesday ) so that I could follow this project from beginning to the end. This documentary is due on the 15 of September.

Apart from doing the edit, Michael told me that I also have to do some after effects and compositing works as there are going to be a lot of split screens and stop motion animaiton and some sequences require me to create some static distortions.

I find it so exciting as all these things that I was learning at school for my own projects, I could use them for the first time in a working environment, these skills couldbt be use in any offices, and definitely in any child care centres!!!

I have to change reels in between and I have to enter the machine room in order to do so. It was so cold, the reason why is because it has to keep the machine cold as they tends to get hot when its running for a whole day!!!

I really love working long hours, as long as I cna feel a sense of achievement and appreciating from the people that I am working with, that's totally fine with me. Like today, I worked until 7:00 pm and I wanted to work longer, but since Chris has to leave, I have to as well.

Really looking forward for tomorrow~~