1. I truly hate the new designs for individuals on IMDb. It’s ugly and difficult. But there is a way around it — go to by type on the side.
2. I’ve updated and added a bunch of credits to my IMDb page. At the prompting of one of the actors in my short musical “Lord of Dreams” I’m trying to get that up again.
3. I’ve worked on a ton of Reality TV in the last year. Sheesh.
So, I apply for a lot of jobs on Craigslist that I’m sure other people are applying for too. I’m curious about how other editors format their resumes and what sort of reels they’re giving out. I mean, I just have no idea what my competition is like or how many people apply for any given job that’s posted.
And then I was talking to F about his resume and how he didn’t know how ADs really formatted them and he was thinking of posting a Craigslist ad just to see what other people’s resumes looked like. This struck me as totally genius.
Here is the mediocre job I posted on FCP, apparent as not real primarily because of the correct spelling.
I need an editor with their own FCP setup to finish a short project; everything’s been digitized and assembled, just need an editor to make a good pass and solid cut. Drive will be provided.
$100 for the work. Please submit online reel and resume. Include the word “Fun” in your subject so that I know you’ve read the ad.
I shall let you know how it goes. I’ll be keeping track of the following
1. how many e-mails I get
2. how many e-mails have resumes
3. how many e-mails have reels
4. how many e-mails have the word “fun” in their subject
Get to work at 10 AM. The Company Head Editor (CHE) comes to talk to the Story Producer (SP). SP arrives a little late, usually.
CHE (to SP): Your editor won’t be back for the rest of the show.
Me: I can edit.
CHE ignores me. Continues talking to SP.
CHE: So I’m going to start making calls to people. See if you can find someone to come in.
Exit CHE.
Me: I can edit until you can get someone in. You’re already using my cuts.
SP: Thanks so much!! We’ll set you up in the editing bay!
CUT TO:
Me in editing bay, no problem. SP enters.
SP: Development Editor (DE) will also be editing, but we can use all the hands we can get. He’ll do the packages, you can do the deleted scenes.
Me: Sure
A little disappointed, I wanted to be the hero editor (Pay raise plz, kthx), but cool. Also, DE is doing the job I was doing provisionally (for free) a few months ago, but then the Head of Development remembered that she loved DE and wanted him to do it instead. So, didn’t get that promotion.
So I cut a bunch of stuff, and spend a lot of time showing the footage to DE, not because he’s not good, he’s great, but because I’ve spent a couple weeks cutting the material and there’s a lot of it and I’ve already cut what they want but some local producer didn’t want it, but then the network did want it, so they’re reverting everything back to basically what I’d cut in the first place.
1PM SP grabs us lunch I guess because she feels guilty about locking us in the editing bays and whipping us into editing frenzies. Not really true, but you know.
Early afternoon, I finally get the call sheet for set tomorrow and learn things such as where I am going, when I need to be there, and when it will be over. And find out what I’m going to be doing. And that I need a laptop. So, you know, good to know last minute.
SP comes by 3ish to check my cuts. Asks me to revert previous editor’s cuts to what I had originally cut, and likes what I’ve done. Ego boost. Wants me to get another Editor at the place to come place music on the cuts, because they’re being used tomorrow on set. I joking (not really) say I should get a pay raise and an editor credit. SP laughs.
I monitor the other two editors, sort of superivising them but then let them do their thing. Will work on a cut of something new and count down the time til 6PM.
Tomorrow, 8AM call. But I do get to meet famous people.
