Well, where to start? How about a run down of everything, this one could be a scorcher.
Got a project on the go at the moment for some of the fashion students who are doing a show in June, for which they first need a promo, which I'll do as well. Went for a few meetings with two of the girls with it to discuss ideas and dates(as in the ones on a calendar), and they've landed on the idea for travelling from one building to the other (bonnington to Waverley, I believe) with light streaks interacting with the environment, so I'm going to get working on a demo of what I think they might like and ship it over to them, we'll see.
Week at ASOS!
www.asos.com
So I went for a week long internship at ASOS fashion house in London, the building was very impressive.
On my first day they I was just set up with a guy called Treve who is the head of AV at ASOS, he had me a mac set up and just started by going through Final Cut Pro with me, helping to transition over from Adobe Premiere, which I found not to be too difficult, and I very quickly started seeing the benefits of using a mac.
It only took one day there to realise that I really am going to have to get a macbook pro at some point, and as soon as possible. First of all, every piece of creative work there was done on a mac and on final cut pro, someone trying to use premiere and to work there would just be completely useless, they had such systematic methods of punching out content very quickly that everyone has to be as efficient as possible. Secondly, Treve was saying how useful mac's are to have on set, as you can import and even edit whilst you wait in between breaks, maximizing the work you get done in the time you work. They are also apparently incredibly durable and very powerful, and so my heart is set on it.
So he had me going through a huge batch of behind-the-scenes footage he'd taken on his Canon 7D for some fashion event (I never asked what it was) for footage that was usable, and he had me grouping them into different bins--a really good idea. It actually allowed you to have an overall direction for the cut you're going to do, so for instance he'd have 'people coming in', then 'people chattting/looking at the clothes' then finally 'people leaving, finishing'. I really liked this non-linear method of editing, the ability to create an overall edit with constantly the same feel (rather than having it change as you go through it, second by second).
The next day we took the tube down to another building where ASOS where having a exhibition of all of their winter line of clothing. It was all being set up (crews building various sets and things) and we went there to check out some cameras Treve had set up for some time lapse footage of everything going up, and they were fine, so we replaced their batteries and left them to carry on. After that he showed me all around the ASOS building, where they do various things (make-up, marketing, modelling, editing etc) really interesting and extremely lively.
When it came to the actual exhibition I made sure to get down especially early, and we set about filming various things around the day on Treve's 7D camera. Treve also had a huge projection looping an edit he'd done on a big white wall of some of the models trying on the winter clothing line, it looked really nice.
Here's some photographs of the event I took on my phone:
It was really awesome, the free food was good too! There was many many people from ASOS there, and also lots of press, even from magazines abroad who'd flown in just to see it. We were interviewing and filming all day (with me on sound) And then near the end Treve left to go back to the ASOS building to get started on an edit and left me in charge of all the equipment, and interviewing people, which was pretty rad. We were filming the interviews on a sony EX1, and the footage just looked gorgeous. After that I sort out all the equipment and took the tube back to ASOS to drop off the memory cards to Treve.
The day after that Treve was super, super busy so he left me in the care of film guys downstairs called Oliver, Tony and unfortunately I can't remember the name of the last guy, but anyway, I talked to them a bit about what it is I do in Nottingham, what it is I want to do and so on, and found that they actually worked freelance for ASOS, which was pretty neat. Anyway, so I got to film models going up and down the catwalk, and with the camera directly hooked up to Tony's mac, he was able to edit it straight away. It was amazing, they had a really systematic way of doing it. Tony would record, then send it to one of the other editors, or keep it on his mac and edit it himself. He had a sequence in place with four different tracks, one of which he'd choose to unmute and use for the model. Everything was really, really neatly organized on his mac, so there was never any confusion, and he was always in contact with the other two editors at all times through iChat (I think it's called that) which they also used to send files. I really learned a lot that day, it was a shame it had to end early as all the ASOS staff had to go down to this huge internal talk given by some guy high up in the company about their strategy for the year ahead, and to look at the clothes. Treve went along to this though, and took some footage.
When he got back, he set me the task of sifting through all the footage he took and using the method I was taught before, of getting all the good shots, then splitting all the footage up into different bins. I did "interviews" "people coming in" "the talk (obviously just a camera on a tripod watching the talk) then "people walking around looking at the clothes. He then knew that internal were going to want an edit of the footage he took, but didn't have the exact brief yet, so he got me to do an edit of the people coming in, then one of the talk (just plonked in a timeline really with two fades) and then an edit of the people looking at things. Here they are:
Edit of people coming in
Edit of people looking at things:
Then finally we got the brief, and it was for a 30 second cut, showing people coming in, then around 8 seconds of the talk (just to show there was a talk) then about 10 seconds of people looking around. So this was actual work! So I did this final cut:
And that was that! It was really sweet to do, knowing that I was actually capable of doing actual work they couldn't just pay anyone £5/hr to do. Anyway, it was one of the best weeks of my life. I want to move to London so badly. I talked so much to Treve (who is a super awesome guy, by the way, one of my heros haha) about work, about getting first jobs, where to look, what to do. He really drove home the importance of macs, but he seemed to mostly think I was on the right track with what I'm doing, just doing everything I can to learn as much as possible. Ha he even gave me an ASOS memory stick as a parting present. After that I went out with my friends from London and got absolutely wrecked, ended up losing my phone, which was so, so embarassing. Mong. Anyway, I am in love with London, and I want to get working as soon as possible.
In other news, I got contact by my friend Andrew, who is an actor who helped me out a lot in various acting roles for my films, and so when he asked me to come film his play I jumped at the chance. I also offered to film behind the scenes stuff, maybe to help promote the drama society for students. Plus, I'm sure everyone involved would enjoy it too, and I really wanted to do everything I could, as Andrew has been a huge help. I spoke to Laura about it, and she was dead excited, so we formed an awesome alliance of thieves, and we went in today to shoot their rehearsals sessions and get some interviews with various people. Laura is extremely smart, and probably has the most creative mind I've encountered from absolutely anyone since coming to Nottingham. We're going in tommorow to film the actual play (two performances, one at the theatre, one outside somewhere, not sure where, and hopefully get more interviews. She's also helping me film a job for a company called Kaplan (teacher tuition videos) on the same day! So it'll be a really busy day, hopefully we can get it all done. Here are some stills from footage we took today:
Onwards
Got a project on the go at the moment for some of the fashion students who are doing a show in June, for which they first need a promo, which I'll do as well. Went for a few meetings with two of the girls with it to discuss ideas and dates(as in the ones on a calendar), and they've landed on the idea for travelling from one building to the other (bonnington to Waverley, I believe) with light streaks interacting with the environment, so I'm going to get working on a demo of what I think they might like and ship it over to them, we'll see.
Week at ASOS!
www.asos.com
So I went for a week long internship at ASOS fashion house in London, the building was very impressive.
On my first day they I was just set up with a guy called Treve who is the head of AV at ASOS, he had me a mac set up and just started by going through Final Cut Pro with me, helping to transition over from Adobe Premiere, which I found not to be too difficult, and I very quickly started seeing the benefits of using a mac.
It only took one day there to realise that I really am going to have to get a macbook pro at some point, and as soon as possible. First of all, every piece of creative work there was done on a mac and on final cut pro, someone trying to use premiere and to work there would just be completely useless, they had such systematic methods of punching out content very quickly that everyone has to be as efficient as possible. Secondly, Treve was saying how useful mac's are to have on set, as you can import and even edit whilst you wait in between breaks, maximizing the work you get done in the time you work. They are also apparently incredibly durable and very powerful, and so my heart is set on it.
So he had me going through a huge batch of behind-the-scenes footage he'd taken on his Canon 7D for some fashion event (I never asked what it was) for footage that was usable, and he had me grouping them into different bins--a really good idea. It actually allowed you to have an overall direction for the cut you're going to do, so for instance he'd have 'people coming in', then 'people chattting/looking at the clothes' then finally 'people leaving, finishing'. I really liked this non-linear method of editing, the ability to create an overall edit with constantly the same feel (rather than having it change as you go through it, second by second).
The next day we took the tube down to another building where ASOS where having a exhibition of all of their winter line of clothing. It was all being set up (crews building various sets and things) and we went there to check out some cameras Treve had set up for some time lapse footage of everything going up, and they were fine, so we replaced their batteries and left them to carry on. After that he showed me all around the ASOS building, where they do various things (make-up, marketing, modelling, editing etc) really interesting and extremely lively.
When it came to the actual exhibition I made sure to get down especially early, and we set about filming various things around the day on Treve's 7D camera. Treve also had a huge projection looping an edit he'd done on a big white wall of some of the models trying on the winter clothing line, it looked really nice.
Here's some photographs of the event I took on my phone:
It was really awesome, the free food was good too! There was many many people from ASOS there, and also lots of press, even from magazines abroad who'd flown in just to see it. We were interviewing and filming all day (with me on sound) And then near the end Treve left to go back to the ASOS building to get started on an edit and left me in charge of all the equipment, and interviewing people, which was pretty rad. We were filming the interviews on a sony EX1, and the footage just looked gorgeous. After that I sort out all the equipment and took the tube back to ASOS to drop off the memory cards to Treve.
The day after that Treve was super, super busy so he left me in the care of film guys downstairs called Oliver, Tony and unfortunately I can't remember the name of the last guy, but anyway, I talked to them a bit about what it is I do in Nottingham, what it is I want to do and so on, and found that they actually worked freelance for ASOS, which was pretty neat. Anyway, so I got to film models going up and down the catwalk, and with the camera directly hooked up to Tony's mac, he was able to edit it straight away. It was amazing, they had a really systematic way of doing it. Tony would record, then send it to one of the other editors, or keep it on his mac and edit it himself. He had a sequence in place with four different tracks, one of which he'd choose to unmute and use for the model. Everything was really, really neatly organized on his mac, so there was never any confusion, and he was always in contact with the other two editors at all times through iChat (I think it's called that) which they also used to send files. I really learned a lot that day, it was a shame it had to end early as all the ASOS staff had to go down to this huge internal talk given by some guy high up in the company about their strategy for the year ahead, and to look at the clothes. Treve went along to this though, and took some footage.
When he got back, he set me the task of sifting through all the footage he took and using the method I was taught before, of getting all the good shots, then splitting all the footage up into different bins. I did "interviews" "people coming in" "the talk (obviously just a camera on a tripod watching the talk) then "people walking around looking at the clothes. He then knew that internal were going to want an edit of the footage he took, but didn't have the exact brief yet, so he got me to do an edit of the people coming in, then one of the talk (just plonked in a timeline really with two fades) and then an edit of the people looking at things. Here they are:
Edit of people coming in
Edit of people looking at things:
Then finally we got the brief, and it was for a 30 second cut, showing people coming in, then around 8 seconds of the talk (just to show there was a talk) then about 10 seconds of people looking around. So this was actual work! So I did this final cut:
And that was that! It was really sweet to do, knowing that I was actually capable of doing actual work they couldn't just pay anyone £5/hr to do. Anyway, it was one of the best weeks of my life. I want to move to London so badly. I talked so much to Treve (who is a super awesome guy, by the way, one of my heros haha) about work, about getting first jobs, where to look, what to do. He really drove home the importance of macs, but he seemed to mostly think I was on the right track with what I'm doing, just doing everything I can to learn as much as possible. Ha he even gave me an ASOS memory stick as a parting present. After that I went out with my friends from London and got absolutely wrecked, ended up losing my phone, which was so, so embarassing. Mong. Anyway, I am in love with London, and I want to get working as soon as possible.
In other news, I got contact by my friend Andrew, who is an actor who helped me out a lot in various acting roles for my films, and so when he asked me to come film his play I jumped at the chance. I also offered to film behind the scenes stuff, maybe to help promote the drama society for students. Plus, I'm sure everyone involved would enjoy it too, and I really wanted to do everything I could, as Andrew has been a huge help. I spoke to Laura about it, and she was dead excited, so we formed an awesome alliance of thieves, and we went in today to shoot their rehearsals sessions and get some interviews with various people. Laura is extremely smart, and probably has the most creative mind I've encountered from absolutely anyone since coming to Nottingham. We're going in tommorow to film the actual play (two performances, one at the theatre, one outside somewhere, not sure where, and hopefully get more interviews. She's also helping me film a job for a company called Kaplan (teacher tuition videos) on the same day! So it'll be a really busy day, hopefully we can get it all done. Here are some stills from footage we took today:
Onwards
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