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The Where/What are you thread...

BlitzKrieg

SImple enuf.

If your on this forum then its safe to assume that you either want to be involved in the film industry or already are.

So sort of a intro thread why dont you tell us, where along the lines of reaching your goals are you? (Studant, nightcourses, still on the couch etc?)

Or if your where you want then what part of the industry does your presence grace (PA, Gaffer, Grip, AD, DOP, Director, Editor, Producer etc)

To get the ball rolling.

I'm starting my last year of film studies in APU university cambridge. And i have been on numerous film courses in ireland, England and America. Just recently back from both a Cinermatography course and a Editing course in School of Visual Art in New York.

Aiming for the big thing of Director, but lately been turning towards being an editor, but i'll see where things lead me.

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dramaqueen

I'm an actress.
I went to university in wales where I got a BA in Theatre Studies and Film. Then I moved to London to go to drama school at DSL and have just returned home and completed a second postgrad in Performance at the Gaeity. I have been doing mostly theatre but I really want to get into film. I have done a few shorts. So if anyone is looking for an actress PM me.

Miguel_Sanchez

I studied Film + Television in GMIT. Graduated with a distinction in May 2004.

Have also done a TV Comedy Writing course with Screen Training Ireland.

Have done the usual college shorts and have helped out bits and pieces on small things.

Currently I am directing a GFC/RTE funded short (shooting on Sept 12th) and will be editing an ID Project for the Galway Film Centre at the end of September.

Have written numerous scripts - have two that are being submitted to Film Board's Short Shorts this year with two seperate production companies in Dublin.

I have also worked in the Galway Film Fleadh for the past two years and was on the submission panel for shorts this year.

So really I'm just starting out - loads to learn but I'm optimistic and determined so I think I'll manage to make a living for myself.

Dustaz

Hello all,

Ive been working in post production for about 12 years now and somehow im still enjoying it. I did the obligatory 2 years in ballyfermot (the old TV course, not the new film one). I found that course great for people who want to become operators as they had a very hands on approach compared to the more director/producer-centric courses in dhulaigh and dit.

After a year or so of trying different things, i got a job as a runner in one of the post houses mentioned above and gained extensive experience in the vital area of tea, coffee and biscuits. If your interested in post production at all, then being a runner/intern is a handy way of getting an introduction to a lot of the things that they dont teach you in college and is a much better way of learning the very basics of how post works than walking in expecting to edit or grade the next johnathan glasier commercial. Like Mycroft, my brilliance as an assistant happened to co-incide with a particularly busy period and i got a gig as an assistant editor. Since this was a post house the type of assisting you do differs dramatically from the classical film assistant type. The days of 1 editor, 1 assistant are long gone since my day sadly (happily i managed to catch the tail end of those days and really enjoyed that system. Working with the lovely Hughchal was a highlight

).

These days, theres 1 assistant to at least 3 editors and the assistants job is basically purely digitising, playing out and housekeeping the avids. Rarely will an assistant know which version of a cut is the "pre-presentation revised directors alt version". The biggest piece of advice i can give to anyone assisting is to make it their business to know as much as possible about an editors cuts without sitting on their shoulder.

After a year or two of assisting i got a break cutting a corporate video and spent a year or two doing them untill getting a much bigger break and moving on to programmes. I spent about 4 years cutting documentarys, mostly for rte but the odd thing for ch4 and bbc, before getting yet another lucky break and getting to cut a commercial. For the last 3 years or so ive been cutting commercials and enjoying it immensely.

Ajos

I haven't been hanging out on Boards much recently, and even when I do it's mostly to tell students that doing something to fall back on is pointless and bitch about people shooting theatrical features at 25fps. Like most advice, the truth of it only becomes apparent after it has been ignored. So I probably don't really need to post in this thread.

But I will anyway. After graduating from DLCAD in 1997 I did an excellent Screen Training Ireland course in being a sound trainee. I worked as a freelance sound editor in Dublin - mostly in Ardmore Sound - from 1998 to 2003. Worked on a bunch of stuff in various capacities: Bachelor's Walk, Tailor of Panama, Random Passage, The Good Thief, Ella Enchanted, Mindhunters, 50% Grey and sundry others.

In 2003 I got a Green Card in the lottery and moved to NYC. The first thing I realised was that nobody gave a flying fark what I'd done in Ireland. I thought I had a pretty good CV - sorry, resume - but it basically counted for nothing. I knew nobody and had no NYC experience so I couldn't get a break in features. I got by for a while doing a few shorts (people - even students - will actually pay a sound editor over here for shorts!), an ultra low budget feature, one very strange art installation and teaching sound design at the NYFA, but I wasn't really making ends meet.

After 9 months and moving twice to progressively cheaper apartments I decided to pack it in. And then I got a call to do some dialogue editing for a couple of weeks for Rockstar Games on GTA: San Andreas. It was well paid, and the couple of weeks turned into several months. Eventually they hired me (health insurance!) and I now work there full time as a kind of dialogue asset manager on various games.

I'm pretty much disengaged from the Irish film industry at this point. The last big job I did there was sound designing Timbuktu, which I'm sure nobody has seen, and I also helped out for a couple of weeks on Boy Eats Girl when I was home for Christmas. I'm working on some writing projects with a couple of Irish directors, so we'll see where that leads. Or at least, I will. You may not.

New York rocks! Nobody here shoots ANYTHING at 25fps.

Hugh_C

Ajos wrote:

...and bitch about people shooting theatrical features at 25fps.

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New York rocks! Nobody here shoots ANYTHING at 25fps.

Clonakilty rocks harder, they shoot EVERYTHING at 16fps there.

Eh, what's your problem with 25fps? Why would anyone shoot stuff at 25fps in New York unless it was for a PAL market? They'd shoot at 24 (or 30. Go figure...

Bitching about people shooting theatrical features @ 25 is somewhat pointless on Boards because the reason that they're shooting at 25 in the first place is that they don't have the friggin' money to shoot on anything other than tape!

Shooting movies @ 25 is going to increase if anything with the advent of HiDef. I think we'll all have to learn to live with that.

hc

Ajos

hughchal wrote:

Shooting movies @ 25 is going to increase if anything with the advent of HiDef. I think we'll all have to learn to live with that.

hc

No you don't. HD can shoot at 24. Anyway, I'm very pleased I don't have to have this argument anymore.

This post notwithstanding.

mycroft

Ajos wrote:

No you don't. HD can shoot at 24. Anyway, I'm very pleased I don't have to have this argument anymore.

This post notwithstanding.

See Hugh I agree with Ajos and you. The thing with a pure HD workflow at 24fps is the cost. You need a nitris or an adrenaline or a FCP HD system, and more importantly a HD deck. Which costs an absurd amount. Nearly negated the print and telecine costs of shooting 35

Now seeing as most people shoot HD cause they cannnot afford film, the invarible follow screen scene's post route for HD produced features (hencely refered to as the "bullsh*t" route)

Screen Scene recommend that you shoot HD at 25fps, and post on Media composer. It's cheap it's cheerful. But oh look, your feature is going to end up 4% longer (ish) when projected. Which is okay on a short but on a feature running over 90m long it can lead to 6 or 7 minutes discrepancy between the avid offline cut and the potential projected 35mm print. So when someone says during the rough cut "hey its good it just needs to lose five minutes", you have to think "Do we lose five minutes on top of the five minutes we'll be losing when it's running at 24fps?"

The difference in america is moot because you can't get away with the duration change between 29 fps and 24fps, so they have to go whole hog, but over here this cheap and cheerful way of avoiding expense is to my mind anyway causing the detriment of low budget Irish filmmakers, because under this route film makers will have to guestimate the overall running time of their feature and it's current pacing.

Ajos

And it totally screws up the music. You can adjust the pitch but the tempo is going to be off. Not a big problem for original score, but source music? Forget it. Sounds like cr*p. And you never notice until you see the print for the first time at the festival because you mixed to video too.

Not that I'm participating in this argument. What would be the point?

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Anyway, no point in hijacking another thread. Here's a link to the last time I brought this up.
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Larianne

Back on topic...

I am a painter of the face.... or make-up artist. Whichever you like to call it. Trained in DLIADT doing everything - film, tv, theatre and special effects make-up. Brillant course and I loved it. Since then I've worked on feature films, shorts, student films, theatre productions, commericals, and tv. Worked at a big news network while in Chicago last year. Was great. I'd still be there if it wasn't for stupid visas and that you are meant to work legally! (sssh don't tell anyone!)

Was working this week on a production being filmed in Galway. So that's finishing now so back to my day job of putting on make-up on people in a shop. The joy!!

I'm hoping to either get back to America (green card lottery 2007!) or head to Australia and work there as I've a few contacts from a gig I did awhile back. It sometimes can get rather disheartening the lack of jobs but then another production pops up and you just love working on it and decide to keep it up a while longer!

monkeyfudge

Larianne.... What year did you graduate from Dun Laoghaire?

When I was going to college there I always thought the make up course was a pretty good one... we used to get some amazing comstumes at the Halloween parties anyway...

I think I got roped into being done up as a women for someones exam up there once. ha..

Larianne

monkeyfudge wrote:

Larianne.... What year did you graduate from Dun Laoghaire?

When I was going to college there I always thought the make up course was a pretty good one... we used to get some amazing comstumes at the Halloween parties anyway...

I think I got roped into being done up as a women for someones exam up there once. ha..

I was there from 2001-2003. Yes its the best course as it trains you in evrey aspect of make-up. And there's only 20 places every 2 years so there's only a select few of us around!!

Ah yes, the sex reversal looks. They were great!! Funnily enough neither of my brothers would model for me!! And I offered money and all. The guy that I ended up using was quite shocked with the result... as he looked like his mother!! lol

monkeyfudge

Strangely I ended up looking like Lucy Lawless of Xena fame.

I graduated in 1999.... the college was a far different place when you were there.

Larianne

monkeyfudge wrote:

Strangely I ended up looking like Lucy Lawless of Xena fame.

I graduated in 1999.... the college was a far different place when you were there.

You did film, right? *ah I just saw you did radio*Yeah its amazing how a lot of people in the college thought we were a bunch of bimbos (esp. the film dudes in 1st year) but when someone either modelled for us or saw our final exhibition (or needed us for their shorts) they realised how much work we actually put into the course and how time consuming it was. Not saying though that there wasn't one or two bimbos now!!

Ah as a college it was crap - the social life..its too far away and those god dam librarians making your life hell when all you wanna do is take out a book. But the course was great, loved it so I didnt mind the nearly two hour trek it would take me to get there everyday.

Sorry that's all off topic..... but that's me anyways!

Ajos

I graduated in 1997. I believe the college has changed unutterably since then. So, Monkeyfudge, you would have been in first year when I was in third year...

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No, sorry, radio, right, my mistake.

aceobrien22

Hi all.
This is my very first post here and I hope that this site is truly as good as it seems.
Right a quick bit about me.
Im a female actor and have been in a few shorts a few commercials and recently a documentry for tv.
Still trying to get the infamous equity card which will hopefully make things a bit easier.
I love acting and have been involved in Drama one way or another all my life. I studied speech and drama, was in plays in Uni, studied in L.A and done courses in the Gaeity and the Irish actors studio.
I get such a buzz from preforming its great!
Anyway, thats me. Looking forward to getting to know you all and reading your posts.
Later!

Lump

My interest in filme start when I was 14 and I attend the Young Irish Film Makers in Kilkenny. I worked as a camera assist,post production Sound mixer and digitiser on an Avid 8000 for Under the Hawthorn Tree.

I went to college in Carlisle in the UK, did a BA in Media Production receiving a 2:1. After that I went straight into a traineeship with the BBC, which I am 13 months into. I'm training to be a Post Production assistant. Hopefully in 3 year's I'll be editing. I have one year left on my traineeship and all is going well so far.

John

miju

i run my own visual company that does live visuals for bands at gigs (of the footage on the stage to the big screen variety) also film band videos / documentaries for DVD and TV release

lilmissprincess

Saturday Course, 10-12.30 in the local Theatre, the guy doing it is lovely, best laugh I've ever had, only seven in the group.
We've made two shorts and done all edits, now just waiting on teh grand premiere.
Possibly doing a followup one next year.

ZZ Topless

Hi,
Right now I'm studying a media studies degree course and had started out hoping to get into TV production...
I've found new interests since I started tho, and am looking into scriptwriting and radio broadcasting - but TV production would be my main thing still.

I've worked mainly on college projects but have had the chance to work as a runner on unrelated jobs. Would love to have that type of work out of the way when I finish up and have a showreel to flash around.
Anyway, that's pretty much it.

6ix

Hi,

I'm currently in my final year of a Multimedia degree, finishing in June. Last year I had 6 months work placement, where I worked as a runner in a post production house, working on sound and video.

Since then, I'm back at college and working part time digitizing/assistant editor. It's given me lots of experience, I know I've been lucky to get the work.

Hoping to get work in a post production house when I'm finished in June, but I don't know how that'll go.

Dick Darlington

Hello,

2yrs in Dun Laoghaire in general media stuff.
Then Film in Ballyfermot which finished May 05.

Work on shorts and Production assistant on things in between and over last few months and throughout college. Film is primary interest. Camera work and directing.

Leprachaun

Currently in Saturday Film Production Course in Dun Loaighre.Doing 2 weeks experience in a place called Grand Pictures.Would like to be a director

Fridge

Leprachaun wrote:

Currently in Saturday Film Production Course in Dun Loaighre.Doing 2 weeks experience in a place called Grand Pictures.Would like to be a director

How long does that course go on for and how much does it cost? Is it part of a degree?

jackswitzer

Hi,
I'm new to Boards.ie, so hello. I'm just after finishing a degree in Film and Television at GMIT here in Galway. I directed a Final Year documentary entitled "Cead Mile Failte" which was in the Galway Film Fleadh and made the final of the 2005 Irish Student Film Festival. I'm currently looking for any sort of work in the industry. I also act and do stand-up, having more luck in these areas but still not up to much.
Jack

smack_monkey

I'm only after joining as well, so how do.

I'm a partner in a small production company; we've been hammering away since 2002. We have a registered name but we've all got day jobs, so we're just trying to give it a go like anyone else. We write, edit, produce and direct between us.

Since 2002 we've finished sixteen pieces, mostly fiction. We've had two showreels of our material, the most recent for last year's work which we put on at the end of January in the IFI. Each year we've kept busy and learnt a lot about the creative, technical and logistical aspects of filmmaking, and this year should be no different.

I didn't study film in college. I attended junior drama for a number of years when I was younger, and wrote a short play which we performed. In college I was on the board of the Drama Society for two years. I started writing short screenplays and wrote and directed a play during my second year on the committee. Since finishing college my partners and I setup the company and started writing and making shorts however we could manage. I attended a Filmbase Digital Foundation Course last year which was an excellent experience and through which I made some very valuable contacts.

From reading the posts on the board I can see there is a wealth of experience and knowledge amongst the regular contributors here, so you can be sure I'll be running a few questions by yis. Cheers folks!

Gizmodeon

I'm currently studying Flim and English Literature and Drama in DBS
Finished this time next year

So far I've Edited one college film on Apple g4 with Final Cut Pro HD
I Also did Wardrobe and props in another, and hopefully will be directing my own mini-documentary soon
I am trained to use DAT recorders, boom operating, Canon XL1 and 2, Final cut pro 4 and HD, and I have experience in directing plays too

other than that i need some work!

cp251

I'm an extra, don't laugh, I got into it for some extra money and for the fun of it. 'You may remember me' from such epics as 'Breakfast on Pluto', 'Laws of Attraction', 'Fair City'...........................

I've even had a couple of lines to speak here and there. But being on set. I soon became more interested in the production side of things. Which set me thinking. Now I have ended up living in Galway about ten minutes walk from GMIT. So maybe fate has intervened.

ztoical

BlitzKrieg wrote:

SImple enuf.

I'm starting my last year of film studies in APU university cambridge. And i have been on numerous film courses in ireland, England and America. Just recently back from both a Cinermatography course and a Editing course in School of Visual Art in New York.

Aiming for the big thing of Director, but lately been turning towards being an editor, but i'll see where things lead me.

I'm BlitzKreig sister, I'm an animator and a cartoonist [Ballyer for the animation/school of visual arts for cartooning] I move back and forth between New York and Dublin - currently in new york with a broken AC which, with new york weather, means I'll more then likely die soon........stupid AC.........

BlitzKrieg

oh no

*goes and hides*

Lump

Sister eh

Welcome Welcome!

Suppose I better be a bit on Topic, I'm now working in Childrens TV, up this early to go and do VT play-in's for Level up on Cbbc and BBC2, then I'm off to work on Match of the Day in September, mixture of Piero (Drawing circles and tracking players on screen) and LSM analysis. I better start being interested in Football!

John