Re: Motivation Needed

When I have long repetitive jobs, where no actual creative effort is asked, I try to see it as a factory making a car. So I split up the jobs in even more repetitive steps until my job is more about optimizing, organizing, etc.. than actual editing. One day you separate the clips in bins (ie) and instead of editing the 1st video.. you go on and you do bins of all 10 hours. Then you level all the audios... Then you work only on the first layer syincing audio (or whatever) .. and before you realise it... you are at the end of the job.
It's not very creative.. but it works.. and in these kind of jobs the client (or the boss) will never say "It's to simple or to plain".. he will just be happy to know it's finished. Not always.. but once in a while is nice to have your mind empty for a few days... I like doing colour correction every now and then... At the end of a job.. after the client has seen (and asked me to change) cuts, scenes, coice of footage, etc... there is only that to do.. I take my time, eat snack, listen to radio (music or talk is the same) and relax. If I get a phone call is just a pause and I need no concentration to start again. Working all life like that is fu**ing voring.. but a few days a month.. it's even nice

siRoma di Marcello Mazzilli
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