Time has been full with non-stop work, socialising and sleep. For a start, I have been living, breathing and dreaming Talent Showdown - a talent show due to be broadcast at this years Rave Live event. Along with my fellow editors Andy and Ray, I've been working hard producing audition tapes for online distribution, ready for voters to vote; successful auditionee's VT's for the live show; and above all, ensuring everything is legal and ready to broadcast from tape; bars, timecode, clocks and all! All together, we have probably worked around 504 man hours on the project - ridiculous!
It's been hectic, stressful, depressing, overloading, but above all a truly amazing experience, packed full of steep learning curves, new relationships and that ever closer feeling to my ultimate goal.
Today was the penultimate day. By this time tomorrow our work shall be done, and all we can do is sit back and watch our work be used on the day of the live broadcast.
Along side this project I've also had other stuff on. Firstly, my other editing jobs. The first is the 'Slugline Productions Training Project'. This is a project (entitled 'Adolesense' - I know that's not how you spell it - it's spelt wrong to enable a play on words.), working with actors from my final major project from last year. They have written a script, and are currently shooting it using my kit. As they shoot, I am receiving footage and editing it for them. This is proving a strange and long process, utilising various pieces of software and equipment. However, the project is going well, and I'm keen to see the final piece!
I've also been working on a short paranormal drama / thriller - details of which I cannot spread around too much. The piece is for a professional company, and looks really amazing! I'm the offline editor - another credit to my name, and some more awesome material for my Showreel!
My life isn't all Final Cut Pro and Avid.
I started a diet. Well, not a diet exactly, but watching what I eat. It started off really well, I was so pleased with myself, eating good food, exercising etc... but these great habits slipped as my workload increased... I still go swimming, swimming's great, and I hope to resume my habits in the gastronomic area very soon!
Well... just a random thought which doesn't really fit anywhere....
It's now nearly one in the morning, and after over estimating how long a job was going to take earlier on, and necking a big can of Redbull, I'm pretty wired. That was a pretty silly thing to do - I need to be up at half 6!
So...
It's nearing the end of the year - I really can't believe it! It's seriously flown by. It's one of those things where you can't wait for the holidays, but then realise that you really don't want this time to go so quick. People always told me that Uni is the best few years of your life - and they're seriously right. Although my Uni life is very different to friends at different uni's, I'm absolutely loving it.
Well, I should probably attempt to grab some sleep. Roll on the weekend! My first one in weeks where I have nothing planned, and I can seriously just chill, catch up on washing and sleep and pub. Hooray!
Peace x
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