[Grinner Hester]

He, of course, had the option of just being someone’s bitch and financing the the pokin’ from pimpin’ Sam. He’ll get his cut either way. I don’t like it but griping about it would make it seem as if I were surprised by it.
maybe I’m just a simple man but I would have flown that plane further south, gone swimmin’ and had a cool drink on a beach. The whole fire and death thing… man it sounds like a drag to me.

[Grinner Hester]

It was pretty normal 20 years ago. It was linear land and options were simply not like they are today. It now depends on the minute being produced… hence the norm of by the hour billing.

[Grinner Hester]

Exactly. They are there to learn video techniques, not restrictions.
The programs I have designed for colleges have course requirements and curriculum outlines, but this is much different. These kids are all on different levels. Some cloud over as I cover waveform monitoring and some lean in but they all put the hands on the scope and tell me what’s what instead of learning a test then discarding that info.
Such is home school. The learning of subjects… not tests.

I’ll have to google the romancing cindy thing.

[Grinner Hester]

Photoshop into After Effects is always quick, easy and effective.

[Grinner Hester]

You could always just make em in photoshop. They’d always be the same no matter what.
man, I dunno what’s goin’ on from system to system. I’ve not heard of that before but so much changes with every (ahem) update they throw out now. Some bugs go away, new ones get introduced.

[Grinner Hester]

There are no rules and you should just make it feel right to you. This is how you’ll get gigs YOU want. Make it what you think others are looking for and you’ll always be doing work other people’s way.

My online reel is less than 2 minutes. It’s just bells n whistles and show NO story-telling talents at all. When entertaining longform, documentary, non-scripted or reality clientele, I send em to some shows I’ve done. I don’t see that as lazy, I see it as cocky.

and that’s the point.

[Grinner Hester]

Yes, that would be nice.
We are not Canada. While we lowball educators then pretend we don’t know why education suffers and our healthcare system doesn’t care much about health, brother we have some dang fine burgers and meskin food here.

[Grinner Hester]

Papers? Man I don’t grade papers. There is none involved. Maybe we teach different ways. I teach video. My students turn in videos. I watch them. We discuss. They learn more. I’ve never killed a single tree in this process.

[Grinner Hester]

uuuuhm…
no?

[Grinner Hester]

If I could pay bills by teaching, man I would. I love it. No deadlines, no stress.. just eager artists seeking freedom to create.
I teach a home school group video production and post. I enjoy every minute of it. My youngest son (now 9) teaches the class with me as he’s been my lil sidekick freelancer all his life. He loves it and the older kids (12-16) really look up to him.
I had an opportunity to teach at the college level after designing a program in NC. I dang near did it. Again, if teachers got paid what they are worth, you could count me in.
That’s a big part of what’s wrong with our society. We’ll pay high salaries for bad jobs but put our educators and law enforcement at less than those guy’s butlers salaries.
crazy.