This HIVE is delicious, you must eat it!

[Desert Hare]

Relique I see that you're out there. I know you're online.

 

[Relique du Madde]

I am now I just pretty much finished filming a video.... All together production took about 5 hours to do start to finish. First hour was setting it up outside then my deciding that filming outdoors was too much of a hassle. The next half hour to hour was setting up indoors. Then filming for 2 1/2 hours (ending up with 56 minutes of footage), then I spend 30 min braking everything down.

Right now I'm about to start capturing my video. Eventually I will have it edited down to 1 - 5 minutes. Then I have to do voice over work and author it for progressive streaming...

The video was of how to japanese bind a book. I ended up using recycled paper I made during this last week (padded with several sheets of regular paper) and the covers were flattened plastic soda bottles. All the steps were shown from flattening the bottles (using an iron) to binding.

 

[Desert Hare]

So when you graduate are you going to try to find work with one of the Hollywood production companies doing pre/post-production?

 

[Relique du Madde]

So when you graduate are you going to try to find work with one of the Hollywood production companies doing pre/post-production?

Well.. my major's webdesign/interactive media. AI major for web design basically makes you learn EVERYTHING from video production to authoring in flash. Ideally I want to work with video production or coding. It's weird.

If the AI in LA wasn't in Santa Monica (which takes 1 1/2 - 3 hours to drive to in rush hour traffic), I would have tried to go there for Film production or Game Design. The AI I ended up going to is about 30 minutes away and I got put into Web Design since since it was the closest thing to what I was looking for because my art portfolio was too weak for Game Design (which was being changed to Game Art Design when I enrolled).

I should also note that I went to USC for Creative Writing (since I wasn't accepted to their filmic writing school).

 

[Desert Hare]

It sounds to me like you have your heart set on working on the graphic interface for video games.

 

[Relique du Madde]

It sounds to me like you have your heart set on working on the graphic interface for video games.

Art skill wise, I might not be able to build an awesome looking interface, but I'd love to tinker around with the code to make it all work. For some reason, even though it's frustrating as hell, I love coding... since making it work is more stratifying then getting a web page to display right.

 

[Desert Hare]

He might be dreaming that he is having one of his debates on the forum.

Hey Relique, what is it that Reveille liked debating about?

 

[Relique du Madde]

Hey Relique, what is it that Reveille liked debating about?

I don't know. If anything it might have been game mechanics... but I'm not sure since I don't remember seeing any threads where he was debating on something. Or at least not recently.

 

[Desert Hare]

Art skill wise, I might not be able to build an awesome looking interface, but I'd love to tinker around with the code to make it all work. For some reason, even though it's frustrating as well when something doesn't work right, I love coding... since making it work is more stratifying then getting a web page to display right.

Hey, if you can get work doing what you like to do than more power to you! I'll bet the pay is decent for coding is decent too.

Not many people get to work in a field that they want to. Myself, I love singing. That doesn't mean I have waht it takes to become a pro or even sing small-time.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Hey, if you can get work doing what you like to do than more power to you! I'll bet the pay is decent for coding is decent too.

Not many people get to work in a field that they want to. Myself, I love singing. That doesn't mean I have waht it takes to become a pro or even sing small-time.

What I wonder is what does it take to become a pro-singer? I know at one time it was talent and skill, but nower days, I'm not sure.

One thing I despise about the music industry is that everyone sound the same. It's like all the producers and sound board techs have plug-ins which changes everyone's voice to to turn into 1 of 10 different presets (depending on the vocalist's gender). For example, I was listening to the radio the other day (since my favorite talk station changed formats) and heard a U2 song and had to double take because it sounded like it was song by a generic artist and not Bono.