Sweet Gig

So, in addition to not doing anything over the break, I got a sweet new job, bringing the job total up to 3 (Projectionist at Lumina Theater and projectionist at Carolina Beach Cinema 4 and the new one). I received a phone call from guy a Joe Dunton Camera asking if I would be interested in working at Screen Gems being the projectionist at the studio screening room. I said yes. I went to the screening room to see what it was all about and spent about 8 hours training with this dude who knew his shit about projection (which was also beneficial for my other jobs). What I will be doing is running dailies for whatever production in Wilmington wants to have film dailies as opposed to digital dailies. As of now, both Bolden! and The Marc Pease Experience are going to be doing that. So I, along with 3 others, will be running dailies for them. It sounds like an awesome job where I will most likely work for Vilmos Zsigmond (!), Todd Louiso, Jason Schwartzman, and Ben Stiller. Already ran into Todd Louiso. It will be a great experience (as well as high pressure) and I am pretty stoked about it. Plus, it is $25 an hour.

Spring Break

So my spring break was rather lame. I worked. I sat around. I was bored. The highlights were 1) not having to do anything 2) getting to catch up on going to the theater and catching a couple matinees. I saw Zodiac, Reno 911 Miami, and 300. They were good, but I have to say that as awesome as 300 was, Zodiac stuck out as my favorite of the bunch. I liked it so much I brought my girlfriend and her friend to see it (and they enjoyed it as well). Other than that, nothing really exciting happened (save for one thing, which I will make a separate blog for). I think I may have even fallen even further behind on my studies on account of the not doing anything. Regardless, it was a well needed break.

Hand Processing and Animation

So, the hand processing project was interesting. I wasn't a big fan of complete darkness (not a fear, it was just weird) but the project itself was fun. Our group had some interesting objects, such as Elaine's broken glass, star glitter, cotton, and more. I was surprised at how well everything turned out. When our film strips were projected, I was pleasantly surprised. The footage was really cool (especially the star glitter) and I think that the editing portion will make for a really cool little experimental short film. I was disappointed with the animation portion, however. The contact print didn't seem to work to well for some of them and the resulting little film was rather disappointing. I wonder if it would look any better if we spliced the clear leader strips together and projected them. I am more than happy with the hand processing footage, however, so I honestly don't really care about that animation anymore.