As a result of the Firefly tenth birthday video I filmed and edited (see previous post) I have gained two further paid jobs!
The first is a video again for Firefly, only this time, the video will be a much shorter, high impact promo, designed for advertising on dance websites such as resident advisor (http://www.residentadvisor.net/)
The video will be posted here as soon as it is done!
Secondly, the owners of On Site, a Dj and engineering collective who run free and licensed events up and down the country, have hired me to produce a promo for their company, featuring footage from their forthcoming showcase event in Nottingham on the 6th of November.
Whilst neither job offers me a chance to develop my potential as a director, it is phenomenal how much more time-effective I have become in my editing and SFX skills - and given that speed of work is the primary concern of employers with regards to editors/post-production workers, this can only be a good thing.
I have recently been getting my teeth into Trapcode Particular, and have started using these skills to composite into real footage, and not just in graphics-only effects shots.
This is largely thanks to a new book I am working through, After Effects CS5 Studio Techniques, a new edition of a book that is highly recommended by professionals (including Andrew Kramer from videocopilot.net)
[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Effects-Visual-Compositing-Studio-Techniques/dp/032171962X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1288701890&sr=8-1]
Once I have got my head rounbd the mind-numbing depth of trapcode from tutorial work I will be including it in future projects without doubt, not as a forced inclusion but because its application is so wide that there is seemingly no project it cannot add an extra layer of depth or polish to.
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