I know I´ve been a little absent from my blog for the past week or so. That´s mostly due to the fact that I got hired for a job (as a freelancer for a project). I´m the 2nd AD for an Advertisement Production company and I´m working on a short set of 3 commercials that will be shooting (theoretically) on May 31st. It has been a bit of a trial by fire mostly because the 1st AD hasn´t been able to be around this week which means I´ve been doing two jobs and learning the system at the agency (which is different than film) at the same time. I think I finally got a hold of it on Friday. Even so, it has been really long and very tiring days. Theoretically, the workday goes from 9-6 but the earliest I´ve left the office is 6:30 on Wednesday. It is a lot of work and a lot of fast thinking. I keep being super freaked that I´m going mess up and will be fired (because a single mess-up can get you fired in film/advertising). Advertising itself...well, it isn´t my first pick of work, but it is similar enough to film and I´m happy to be in a similar sort of environment. Also they´re paying me. It was kind of a funny story actually - I went in to interview for an internship and got a job right off the bat instead. They needed a 2nd AD and the Human Resources girl knew me from a previous shoot we did together about two years ago and knew I was a good 2nd AD. It felt good to get the job to be honest - it validates what I already know, which is that if they give me the chance to interview, I think I can nail the job. But to interview I need to be near the jobs...which is why I´m deadset on going to New York in September. Hopefully, I can get a few more advertising gigs at the same place and save up some money or just get the experience. I think it is really valuable experience to have in my CV - especially since the agency I work with has won a ton of awards and is internationally recognized. I´ve also been picking the other 2nd AD´s brain on some post-production tips. He´s worked at some impressive places for some impressive clients so I figured I might as well.
Besides the huge amount of work I´ve been doing lately, I´ve been pondering about the upcoming anniversary of my college graduation which is tomorrow. It feels really weird, to be completely honest, to no longer be able to say I am a recent graduate of Vassar College. It really feels like it puts an end to an age of transition. My stint in Academia seems to go further and further away and that in itself also feels strange since I´ve grown up in academia since I was 2 (my parents, being college Professors, would take me to their campus since I was a baby) and I feel the most at home in a college campus. But even the familiarity of the local university where my parents work at has begun to be compromised - it feels somewhat alien, and full of people that are much younger than I am. Or maybe I just feel old.
It is a strange transition and a strange moment.
At least, I am happy the rapture didn't happen yesterday (not that I thought it would). I was getting sick of all those ads all over the internet. I think we´re safe from any eschatological predictions until late 2012. Which is good.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
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Eh, we are still recent graduates. There are just some new ones joining us! Or at least that is how I see it.
ReplyDeleteThe guy who predicted the rapture hasn't been seen since Sunday. Which to me says that he wasn't wrong, he was just the only one who was good enough.
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