Video Village #1
This is one version of where I spend most of my time. The not-enough-budget, sorry-we-ran-out-of- craft-service version. Although this shoot wasn't like that at all (except for the budget part). It was only one day, and they had fine crafty and a delicious lunch. We were shooting the shortest ends I've ever seen on a cool old Mitchell camera that is the exact same camera used to shoot Midnight Cowboy, according to the DP, who owns it. That's just about my closest brush with Hollywood fame right there.
I guess this is what a spec commercial is: it's gotta look super shiny, but there's not enough money for the stuff that doesn't show up on camera. Maybe one day, when I grow up, I'll work on a real commercial and earn the oodles of money they're always talking about. I should have gotten into this business through the commercial/industrial side and tried to break into movies. Then I'd be earning lots and lots of money while trying to make my way onto artistically fulfilling jobs, rather than trying for the few low-paying, artistically fulfilling jobs while wishing I knew someone who could get me a job on a commercial.
BUT I finished my first socks, and have started my Jaywalkers in Katia Mississippi in a variegated Cadbury's Mini-egg colorway. Ummm...like the pattern, hate the yarn. It's the kind of cotton that's fiddly, even though it's 40% acrylic, which I equated with 40% ease. Nope. It's got a spiffy sort of matte hand though. Now I have to decide if I rip out my 4 hours of knitting (that's 1.5 inches of sock) and start over smaller or if I forge ahead and give them to someone with bigger legs than I. Or if I find another use for the yarn.
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