Cory Petkovsek
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Hmm, what aspects of production really drive you? Do those and farm the rest out maybe. If sales and marketing is your thing, why spend 100+ hours editing a project that is just going to send you to the dumps? You could spend that time with sales, marketing and production and keep 2 or 3 editors busy with 2-3x the work you’re doing now.
Cory
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Cory Petkovsek
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Capturing HD, outputting SD will only require more processing power for your computers, more storage space and more time to deal with it all. HD to SD won’t look any different than shooting in SD given the same factors(* see below).
However, As Noah states, it will future proof you should you explore broadcast or other mediums.
Along with HD technology comes these available benefits:
– Newer cameras with improved optics for better image quality
– Newer cameras with improved sensors for better image quality
– Tapeless acquisition! (Tapes really blow).
— Ingest footage faster than real time (no capturing necessary)
— Avoid tape errors
– HDV compresses about twice as much as DV, at higher resolution! (If you use tapes w/ HD)Cory
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Cory Petkovsek
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Definitely NOT in business and marketing. How about lighting design pros, or possibly corporate video?
I don’t think your question is the right question, so I’ll answer it in parts.
How much wattage for a lightbox?
Watts in tungsten gives a different luminance value than watts in fluorescent. Look at other softboxes and see how they are built by manufacturers. You need to make it big enough to dissipate the heat that your light puts out. I’d look at coollight’s 200w bulbs or EIKO’s 105w bulbs. I haven’t used either; note the medium vs mogul base. I’d put as much wattage as you can put in it without it melting or burning.
https://www.coollights.biz/cl20056-cool-lights-200w-5600k-high-softbox-bulb-p-83.html
https://www.coollights.biz/cl20032-cool-lights-200w-3200k-high-softbox-bulb-p-85.html
https://www.amazon.com/COWBOYSTUDIO-Compact-Fluorescent-Daylight-Listed/dp/B001ME7GPU/ref=sr_1_120?ie=UTF8&s=photo&qid=1247018051&sr=1-120
https://www.amazon.com/CowboyStudio-Compact-Fluorescent-Daylight-Listed/dp/B001MGJPAW/ref=sr_1_69?ie=UTF8&s=photo&qid=1247017895&sr=1-69How to light an interview?
One softbox isn’t enough. Will you light both people? You probably need three light sources one or two being a softbox is fine. You’ll want a bare minimum of 500w, 250w and 90/150w in tungsten. Even at these minimums it will take some ability to light well. Two 5-600w and a 150/250w hair light would be better for one person, or a 1k, 500w and a couple hair lights for two people. The more light you have, the easier it is to get a professional result. Divide by 4 for fluorescent wattages.How many lights can a circuit handle?
Residences and older buildings have 15 amp circuits. Modern commercial buildings have 20amp circuits (denoted by an outlet with a horizontal slot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Electrical_outlet_with_label.jpg).Remember this formula: P=I*V (Power = Amperes * Volts). Since your lights are 120v, and a single circuit may be 15 amps, that gives you 1800 watts to use before flipping the breaker. Everything plugged in to a circuit will have an ampere draw written on the device. When plugging into a circuit, add up the amps of all devices to see if there is room for your lights. Use multiple circuits as necessary.
Cory
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Cory Petkovsek
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Contact local corporate production companies NOW. Ask them to let you intern in any capacity. Then be responsive on your phone and show up. If you are awesome, when you graduate they’ll probably hire you. If not, you just got 9 months of experience. Put that on your resume and send it to all the other corporate production companies now, or start your own production company. You were watching what they were doing while interning, weren’t you?
Cory
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Cory Petkovsek
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Well, they are looking for this position: Senior Technical Director – Pipeline Developer. And they have a pretty decent professional reel, so they probably know what they are looking for.
It would be unwise to hire someone WITHOUT all of that experience for this role. This isn’t a posting for a technician or an artist. Nor is it for a 20 year old unless they are a prodigy.
I have a CS degree and am proficient in almost everything listed. For the remainder, I could learn python in a week, mel in another week, but the rest of maya a couple months (it is big!).
However they wouldn’t hire me to actually do any of those things. That would be foolish (ie poor business).
They’re looking for someone with proficiency in all those departments who can effectively bridge the gap between technicians, artists, and business managers.
I’ve never done programming professionally, but I have done quite a bit in non-professional projects. I can certainly tell the difference between a good coder and a poor one, and can and have hired them. I’m not spectacular at drawing either; I can draw, and I’ve trained my eye as an artist and can thus evaluate and work with them.
However rather than become a technical director I started my own company! 😉
Cory
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Cory Petkovsek
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Mike’s advice is great. Especially:
As an employer, I want to know what a potential employee can do for me.If you can, document the exact financial benefit you provided the company. I used to work and consult in IT, so I have had things like this on my resume:
Saved company $2500/mo in telecommunication costs.
In video perhaps you can say something along the lines of these (whatever you can document and reasonably explain). And if you haven’t been keeping track of this stuff, now is the time to start:
Produced commercials for $1M national advertising campaign
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Produced web video which doubled online conversion rate upon implementation
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Reduced video production expenses by 25% through effective managementThis not only makes the hiring manager think, “wow maybe you can do that for me”, it also sets the appropriate scale of your ability.
Personally I would exclude most software and hardware experience from a project manager/producer position. That is only relevant for a technical position.
Finally, forget your fears. Experience is experience. If it’s all for one client under your own business or 5 different jobs, it doesn’t matter. It DOES matter how you present it. There is a way to honestly present your experience so it is attractive to hiring managers. If the companies have gone out of business, NBD. Provide more than ample awesome references of clients and active businesses.
Cory
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Cory Petkovsek
Corporate Video
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I’m not sure what the problem is. Every industry posts job ads like this. This is posted by an HR person or a business manager. This means they are not an expert in this field, you are. They are just posting what tools they know they have.
Good hiring managers (the ones you want to work for) hire based on personality first, talent second. However many of them don’t have the ability to accurately judge talent so they default to a technical description of the tools they have in house and hope that by being “proficient in them” you will meet their needs.
Don’t get upset or blame them. Instead understand where they are coming from and figure out a way to express how your experience will more than adequately meet their needs (but not be over qualified).
Cory
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Cory Petkovsek
Corporate Video
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Yes, client perception is important! “Video guy” suggests a very casual or unimportant attitude around your role. I think you are right to very politely and confidently correct those introducing you. A “videographer” does weddings in my opinion, so I will correct others when they refer to me as such.
Scott Sheriff
I think it depends on what you do.Totally agree!
When I produce and direct films/movies, I’m the director. For corporate video I produce. Whether I also run the camera or move lights or edit or do vfx is irrelevant, my producer title supersedes everything. I’d never put producer/director/writer/dp/editor/vfx on my card. My business card says producer. My website says producer and creative director only to differentiate myself higher than my other producers.
Mark Suszko
OF course, when you own the company, you can call yourself whatever the heck you like:-)Yes, and I’ve seen a lot of tacky titles that communicate one is a new business, or a tiny one person shop. I would never any more put owner, ceo or president on my card unless I had at least 30 employees and were well established. Again client perception is everything and I don’t want a lead discounting my business in those first few seconds because of something so small and easily corrected. Just looked through a large stack of cards on my desk; I would put owner for a restaurant, or a local well known brick and mortar store, but that’s about it.
Cory
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Cory Petkovsek
Corporate Video
http://www.CorporateVideoSD.com