Big day coming

[XCheck]

This must be the most inane thing I have ever done - both on the web and at work.

Here I am, two nights before my final day at the job, ready to start packing. I sneaked my camera to work, to shoot some footage for docs I've been thinking about.

First is documenting my experience of quitting a very well paid job that I couldn't take any more, and becoming a starving artist.:laugh: Yes, it is a little narcissist (and fortunately, the starving won't be that serious), but, without going into personal details, I want to be able to look at the present time in the future, and see and hear about my experience.

The second idea is one I have been thinking about for a long time: the issue of boundaries. Starting with our personal little spaces (like my cubicle), and going outward toward the ultimate boundary of the human species (whatever it ends up being). I have a lot of personal issues with borders and such (growing up behind the Iron Curtain first, and experiencing the bogus border security measures in the post-9/11 world on a weekly basis for last six years).

So here is a question for you guys:

Any ideas for shots you think I should make? It's your typical office nightmare - about forty cubicles on a large fluoro-lit floor, off-white everything. Computers everywhere. Pictures of family not allowed on the desktop wallpaper image.

I have plenty of shots in my mind already, just not sure I can do it all before the security guards find out :laugh:

Cheers!:beer:

Jerry

 

[Isaac_Brody]

POV shots from your cubicle, peaking out of your little cube at the long line of identical pods. A shot of the clock, a shot of checking in/out...

 

[Barry_S]

The camera pans back at the cube--one last wistful glance..a small point of light enters the frame. It's a thrown match! Slow dissolve to flames licking the ceiling. Coils of greasy black smoke rise from the burning plastic of the cubicles. The sprinkler system turns on--soaking the burning carnage. Water drops accumulate on the lens surface--dissolve to rain on the windshield of your car as you drive away. You stop at a light--a man in the crosswalk looks straight at you--ZOMG, it's your boss! Better stop at a motel for the night and figure out your next move.

 

[XCheck]

Ha ha ha! That's funny - I wish I had the time to shoot something like this. So far - a little blurb (stupid probably - I won't know until I see it), and a time lapse of me cleaning out...

More stuff later:violin:

 

[J.R. Hudson]

Totally stoked for you Jerry

I recently told an unbearable job to go f*** themselves

2 days later, I was working on a film (Getting paid) and had a new job making 2 times what the old one was paying me

And

I don;t start until Tuesday ! I've been on vacation for almost 3 weeks !

Yay !

 

[snowleopard]

... my experience of quitting a very well paid job that I couldn't take any more, and becoming a starving artist.:laugh: ...

My God! Didn't anyone here warn you against this?!? rogar-Dum(DBG):

Just kidding. I took a similar leap a little less than a year ago. I was working full time for a nameless company being paid well with concentration camp type management to deal with. It was killing me from the inside out. I jumped and now I'm flat broke, but my sanity is much higher. Enjoy your freedom, and ride the tiger as long as you possibly can. :beer:

 

[Capt Quirk]

Be sure to get some footage of that weird guy with his red Swingline stapler, and then gut a fish on your desk. Maybe for lunch, you and your buddies can steal the office copier and vent some frustration on it.

 

[XCheck]

Be sure to get some footage of that weird guy with his red Swingline stapler, and then gut a fish on your desk. Maybe for lunch, you and your buddies can steal the office copier and vent some frustration on it.

Ha ha! Office Space rules! It's going to be the first movie I'll watch when I get back to Toronto!

I got a shot of the printer (not the copier), but the frustrations have been the same. And I took a shot of all five staplers in my posession. Whoever will inherit my desk will probably think WTF?

2 days later, I was working on a film (Getting paid) and had a new job making 2 times what the old one was paying me

Do you mind sharing the secret? :lipsrseal Congratulations!

My God! Didn't anyone here warn you against this?!?

Exactly!

...being paid well with concentration camp type management to deal with. It was killing me from the inside out.

Funny you mention this... a coworker recently referred to a certain member of the management team: "Everything that woman touches turns into a f***** gulag!"

Oh well - I am leaving on good terms, but I've had enough.