Recognition

By the end of October, if everything goes well, I will have 5 projects finished in 3 months. All of a sudden I find myself with almost too much work, whereas 6 months ago I was bored out of my mind.

Here is the current list:

The Missing Bank Card 2: Done
Igor's Lament (Butterfinger Commercial): Done
They Hunger (Home Run Inn Commercial): 90%
Wedding Videographer: 0%
Quantum Immortality: 5%

Quantum Immortality is the most interesting one, not because of the concept but because of the way I've ended up playing a major role in it's production. Let's just say it REALLY pays to have a place online to show videos and my portfolio.

In the beginning of the semester, my Science Fiction class briefly thought it was a good idea to make a Sci-fi movie. I thought it would be cool too, but I was heavily skeptical about everyone's motivation to just START it.

But I was surprised to walk into class Tuesday morning, they were dividing up the work for the film and sketching ideas and plot elements. All of a sudden I was in the middle of a huge (30 people) production with a 10-20 minute Sci-fi film, and I didn't have a job... yet...

I played it coy, and casually asked the Director (student led) who was doing the special effects? He said that they were lucky to have two students from Game Design in here who could pull off all the effects. The two other students were talking with the set designer and script writer, I pulled up a chair to listen in, and waited for the right spot to jump in.

It was pretty quick. People started asking lots of "can we do this/that?", and trying to film alien words in our back yard, and about lasers/explosions/sparks/blood/smoke, even lightsabers. They started to get a little uneasy about the things that were being requested, so I stepped in and said "yes".

They all looked at me, not expecting someone to say yes. They asked if I had film experience and I said yes. They were still looking somewhat skeptical at me, so I opened up my YouTube site and showed them what I can do.

And that's when the door opened.

A few minutes later and the set designers, costume designers, script writers, and the director were asking me what was possible and what was not. They viewed my videos and started to get really excited about the possibilities.

All of a sudden, our cheesy student film was turning into a Sci-fi Epic. The last semester also did a sci-fi film... And while that was funny, I know we can do 100x better.