Last Day With Mentor

May 11, 2013.
     I arrived at my mentors workplace at 9 a.m. I learned that organization is one of the most important things while making a feature film. You can get away with music videos or 30 second clips. If you are not organized from the start, he says its like "shooting yourself in the foot". The feature film he is directing has thousands upon thousands of takes and scenes. I logged in those takes and scenes onto a word excel spreadsheet. I learned to convert raw footage to high resolution and low resolution footage. I was a long process especially for the conversion of raw footage to high resolution footage. I learned the importance of having backup data for the footage. You never know what might happen. A hard drive failure, flooding of the studio, or fire can destroy data. He had four backup hard drives. He keeps one in the bank for safe measure. I learned that a movie such as Iron Man, there would be a team ready to take the footage, convert it and make backup copies. My mentor is an independent director so most of that work would be done by him. I realized that I do not want to become a independent director. I also learn how to edit clips, color correction, add stock animation, and place scenes in sequence. I worked on my online portfolio and finished it. I ended my work at 5 p.m. I logged in 8 hours for the day and a total of 28 hours.