A Lesson in Frustration

So, today was a bunch of little puzzle things that just got frustrating, but in a good way. Not "fun" persay, but "challenging".

My first assignment wasn't a challenge at all, since it was simply to watch the full Chameleon Club documentary all the way through. It was a bit under an hour and it's not all finished yet, but I got to point out certain things to Allen that I may not have been able to otherwise, such as the flashing color bits in the last section to make it look more like old footage rather than new footage, but there was so much of it that it became a distraction.

There was an entire section that had one long clip that didn't need to be so long, and yet, didn't have any others, but needed some. My job was to cut down that one clip and try to find others to fit within that section. This included going through a whole bunch of extra footage looking for something that wasn't there. This was a little frustrating.

The next job I had was to find when interviewees first appeared, write down the time, their name, and their title. This was frustrating because I didn't know who most of these people were and half the clips didn't tell me who they were. Allen said that he was "testing my research skills" to which I replied, tounge-in-cheek, "Well, I was a soc research major for three years and I found that I try to find the easiest way of finding something out" and in this case, that was asking Allen. He laughed at that.

Finally, I had to find the name titles that Jason had made and make one for each of the interviewees. That took me mostly till the end. I came up with a color scheme for everyone. Regular employees get red, artists get orange, managers and owners get gree, Rich Ruoff got blue, since he founded it, and others outside the club scene got yellow. Rendered them all out and that was it.

Also, gave Allen the B-roll that we shot in DC. He found a stock site that has some footage for other places, so he may not use the stuff we shot, but he did say one of my shots looked like a good shot, so even if he doesn't use it, I know it's nice. So yea, that was basically it for today.

[Hours: 10-5]
[Total Hours: 133]