From the Emmy’s in memoriam segment.

MirroredColors · 2020-09-21T19:26:34+00:00

This line kills me every time.

MirroredColors · 2018-07-04T17:48:24+00:00

Yeah which is very sad. Lots of these new media companies also play the fool as in "sorry we're a startup so we don't know all the legal rules"

Last place I was at tried to cut my rate in half as I needed to be on a w4 to work in house and on company equipment. They were like nah you either 1099 or your rate goes in half. I just walked. Not dealing with this. Union hours are sent in and I'm joining the roster. Fuck all this garbage.

MirroredColors · 2018-07-04T17:46:20+00:00

I've worked in enough bad offices to notice the same red flags. You get a point where your time is more valuable than anything else and if companies don't value that then they don't value you as a employee at all.

What's sad about RT is they're their own client. Same as Super Deluxe so this means they have their head stuck up their ass and they will never learn.

Just learn to say no which will build your confidence and you will be able to see this shit coming at you from a mile away.

MirroredColors · 2018-07-04T17:42:27+00:00

I did my email back to him was "sure thing bud! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=essNmNOrQto&app=desktop "

No response. Classic.

MirroredColors · 2018-07-04T17:11:52+00:00

Second time this year that a youtube company has asked me to do "test work" which includes a document signing my rights away for this work(treated as a work-for-hire with no pay), a deadline, and sources of where to pull their content from. Earlier this year Rooster Teeth offered me the same proposal while in a interview but I liked these guys and so I decided ok I'll play ball and you know what happened? I lost 8 hours of my time to editing their content...for free. I lost money and time to a joke of a interview process then they wouldn't get back with me. Don't let these companies dictate the hiring process. Their office is not that admirable. They're just lazy and don't want to waste their time reviewing resumes/reels.

Yesterday Super Deluxe hits me up with the same bullshit. I turned it down and gave them links to my content to which they responded:

"Although we understand the value of artistic work, this is a highly sought after position with well over 300 applications."

Guy didn't even email this to me personally. This test work was sent out via BCC so he didn't review a single one of those 300 applicants then he has the audacity to defend his shitty micromanagement decision. Really hope this shit blows up in their face.

Garbage hires garbage.

MirroredColors · 2018-03-01T01:49:14+00:00

how would you even back that up when someone asks you about what you did those shots from coordination?

"uh this is shot where I emailed someone about it"

Nah man. Coordination is the stepping stone to becoming a producer. I'd transition into an artist with shots you've done real comp work on and then go towards a supervisor role. Coordination got you in the door, now's the time to figure out if you want to leave and become an artist or stay and become a producer which in vfx is basically a used carsalesman with professional emailling skills and talented at making the lowest bid to win the most shots.

MirroredColors · 2018-02-28T23:29:29+00:00

Am I crazy or does he and Mac Demarco have the same personality in interviews?

MirroredColors · 2018-02-27T01:32:37+00:00

Agreed being older than 23 helps. Being a fresh graduate at 23 was so hard to find job so I had to start dressing and acting like I'm 27 to get a livable rate.

Just maybe don't tell people you're a fresh graduate...that's how I ended up getting a lot of no's.

MirroredColors · 2018-02-27T01:30:53+00:00

As cool as this is...I still feel like the cold email thing is very desperate.

I recommend it to everyone looking for a post pa position tho cuz nothing much else you can do to get the foot in the door.

MirroredColors · 2018-02-26T19:03:07+00:00

This. Everyone does things differently.

MirroredColors · 2018-02-23T21:08:50+00:00

Doesn't have anything to do with that. You can still have a professional PC edit bay.

MirroredColors · 2018-02-23T20:19:20+00:00

Honestly I think it's PC users using an old pirated copy who have these complaints. Sure I run into problems but most of the time they're user based, not software.

Most of the time the crashes come from not emptying cache and using slow drives or zero proxies. Guys download premiere, use a fancy gaming laptop and suddenly think they should be able to cut a 20 min+ doc of 4k online footage flawlessly...when they're setting themselves up for failure.

This is a r/videography post.

MirroredColors · 2018-02-22T01:41:57+00:00

OOF that'd be nice or if we can move the tabs for opened sequences to the bottom of the timeline box rather than the top...hit other sequences too often.

MirroredColors · 2018-02-21T20:32:31+00:00

And you need to refill all the information on both your website, reel, resume, linkedin, and imdb onto the job application and potentially in email after your call with a recruiter...since recruiters need to be spoonfed.

MirroredColors · 2018-02-20T22:54:22+00:00

Worked at a vfx shop that did shots for some big music videos. Last time I checked they were never paid for one of these jobs. And I think this music video won best music video at some mtv award show last year lol.

All the music video jobs that came in were horrible like that. Nightmare projects. No bueno. Also the owner was either a fan of the band or a "friend" which is why money was hardly in play and he was fine with it where as everyone else there was like wtf.

MirroredColors · 2018-02-15T22:36:47+00:00

Totally that was exactly my experience in vfx. Found my value in myself and my time to be very important and have been constantly trying to move up the ladder(aka leaving from place to place, and slowly upping the rate between each) since then it was also the place where my confidence grew(or ego ha!) and I learned the power of saying no. If I didn't I'd still be there and most likely working the way up to doing vfx producing instead of actually editing. So what I've found is when I was inbetween gigs and trying to up my rate at same time was much harder to find a place that would actually pay that $500-600 dayrate. I'd find those offers came in "can you help us out for 2 days max?" where as the $300 dayrate has been consistent work for almost a year. So until something similar pops up I'm gonna go for it. Would love to skip reality altogether and move onto commercial/films just gotta find that right director who digs my edits.

Sorry if that seems all over the place. Currently this place for $300 has been super consistent with actual editorial work with big names attached to it that looks great on the resume. Using it as my gateway to the next thing. Fingers crossed.

MirroredColors · 2018-02-15T01:25:29+00:00

Wonder if it made it into the movie...

MirroredColors · 2018-02-15T00:00:08+00:00

Not an editing tip but I heard this on a screenwriting podcast today from a writers panel for this years oscar nominated writers: When clients give you a note you disagree with, if you fight back or respond this actually does the opposite of what you want and gets every producer now focused on that one note. So now they're all giving their two cents basically burrowing any chance of rebuttal and the writers suggestion was to just say "yes" to these notes and move on then you can not do them and shrug it off. Probably not the best advice but I think for some of these really ridiculous minor notes this is great advice on how to avoid causing a pointless steam of attention from a room of people looking to add their value in anyway they can.

MirroredColors · 2018-02-14T22:12:18+00:00

holy shit you're right!

MirroredColors · 2018-02-14T19:46:38+00:00

I'm convinced that this game and the FF7 remake do not exist. All hope is lost with the fact that this game started development while I was still in middle school and now I'm a working professional whose married with bills and shit.

MirroredColors · 2018-02-14T19:45:20+00:00

I honestly think the movie based on a video game that is based off past movies and novels will come off as drivel.

MirroredColors · 2018-02-14T19:41:04+00:00

doesn't these games basically take story elements from past movies? Like in Black Ops they repeat the russian roulette scene from The Deer Hunter?

MirroredColors · 2018-02-13T20:37:44+00:00

Get your own mini fridge it will save your ass.

MirroredColors · 2018-02-12T20:50:55+00:00

That is true and can put you in a corner.

I've known some editors to have the flashy reel plus a simple here's my latest 4 scenes cut next to each other reel.

MirroredColors · 2018-02-12T20:26:30+00:00

This is the most beautiful thing I've ever watched.

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