production is time consuming

After everything I explored in the last post, this was a quieter week with a busy work schedule. Yay. Rent is paid!

I spoke to "Kevin" a professional web site designer, for about 2 hours last week, to learn about his work, but we ended up talking about our current mutual art classes and various mediums of design, so I will have to get more on that later. Still it inspired me to continue exploring "painting" with different mediums.

I then spent about 2 and a half hours watching "Don" use CorelDraw9 to create mock product labels. These were part of the "production" work needed for the Commercial his film class was shooting the next day. He used a Wacom drawing pad and stylus for most of the work. I hoped to learn some technology, or editing tips. But in the end it wasn't very directly useful to me at this time.

Still, I learned to allow plenty of time, since creating the mock labels took him hours before I arrived, and then there was about an hour of trying to work out the problems of sending them via email with high resolution. There were multiple IM's back and forth about progress. The files had to be compressed, and resent several times which was tedious.

In the end there were about five mock labels which were all very humorous, and the commercial shoot went well.

I was given an open invitation to visit the studio during class and help with production work as soon as my schedule opens up. I have no idea if I will end up in front of the camera or behind it, but I will be ready for either tomorrow.

meanwhile, its time to visit the OFS and see if there are anymore films to screen, and then meet up with Mike for another round of music and more recording... woot! that is always an evening well spent.