| | Well, it's been a while since I've written anything here, so I guess I'll try to catch everyone up.
I graduated from Chapman with an MFA in Film Production/Editing in May and moved up into Los Angeles, where I hoped to find some employment in the industry I've been spending the last three years (officially, anyway) preparing to enter. A script supervisor position on a series of three independent short films in June/July proved to be my first professional film work, and after that, I had some interviews, including one for a PA position on Robert Zemeckis's upcoming adaptation of A Christmas Carol, and another for a pilot for Lifetime. After that, I wound up as a vault assistant at Modern VideoFilm, a post-production facility in Burbank.
It was not what I was hoping for, but it was income and the hours were agreeable. While working there, I was contacted by a fellow Chapman 2008 graduate about an editing gig for O Entertainment, the company behind the various "Thumb" movies (Thumb Wars, Thumbtanic). They were producing a short called Thumb Debate '08, spoofing the presidential elections, and I ended up being a co-editor on the project.
A couple of weeks later, I was contacted about an asssistant editor position on a new animated series that O's sister company Omation was producing. On December 1st, I began at Omation as assistant editor on Planet Sheen, a spinoff of Jimmy Neutron, which should begin airing on Nickelodeon in late 2009.
And that, in a nutshell, is what I've been doing for the past six months. That and getting used to living in the fabled City of Angels. As The Stranger from The Big Lebowski would say, "I didn't find it to be that, exactly, though there are some nice folks there."
At any rate, I'll probably be blogging a little more regularly now, even if it is to just get some random thoughts of mine down in writing. In the meantime, I would like to recognize a small anniversary before 2008 goes bye-bye:
Over the years, I've tended to look at 1988 as the year that I sort of became conscious of the movie industry. Sure, I'd been interested in movies, and even how they were made, almost from the time I knew what one was. But that year was when I really started to pay attention to the industry, or at least as much as a 10-year-old in Wichita Falls, Texas, was able to.
I would constantly read what I could find on films that were being made, I would keep the TV constantly on MovieTime (anyone else remember that channel?), and I would always know what was playing at all three of the theaters in town. I may not have been old enough to see Pumpkinhead or Child's Play, but I could definitely tell you when and where they were playing.
Of course, that was also the year that Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the film I often cite as the one most responsible for sparking my interest in filmmaking, was released. I say "most" responsible, because, of course, there was Star Wars and other things before that, but Roger was the first film that I really dissected, and it made me think about actually doing it for real.
Twenty years later, I am living in Los Angeles, working as an assistant editor for an animated series to be shown on a national cable network, carried to millions of viewers (maybe a few million less, if said network's parent company can't settle its current beef with Time Warner Cable  ). There have been some detours along the way (most of them my fault), and I probably should have reached this point a few years ago, but here I am now, and there's much work to be done. |
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