groveChuck
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Sounds like internet research was a whole step of prep before rehearsal?
Maybe you'll come up with a minimum up speed?
Thanks for the details, and congrats on the success- technically and business-wise!
Have you adapted the services you are offering?
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Maybe you'll come up with a minimum up speed?
Thanks for the details, and congrats on the success- technically and business-wise!
groveChuck
U-matic Member
Norbro... :grin: :grin: :grin:
filmguy123
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In answer to thread question, no, I haven't really, but kind of. I've taken some remote editing jobs for clients using old footage I shot, layered with new voice overs from them. That sort of thing. So the archive is providing work, and then I'm assisting with writing, branding, messaging type tasks.
I may have to re-evaluate all of this as not performing new production for too much longer could become a problem... It's hard to say how long life is going to look different or what the coming months will hold.
I may have to re-evaluate all of this as not performing new production for too much longer could become a problem... It's hard to say how long life is going to look different or what the coming months will hold.
alaskacameradude
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Ha, PLAYING video games is a different story. I’ve got a
PS4 in my edit bay hooked to a HDMI switch and my big
monitor for when I need to take a ‘‘render break.’ I like
video games and have played them since I was in college.
To this day if I get together with some of my friends we
can stay up all night playing Madden. But watching
other people whom I don’t even know play video games
via a livestream? That’s the part that has me shaking my
head. I guess it takes all kinds.
groveChuck
U-matic Member
I shot (on a Sony pdw600 for some unexplained reason- no disk recordings) a video game competition between 2 man teams consisting of an NFL player playing with a pro gamer vs another similar team during Super Bowl Week.
Was livestreamed and watched live by hundreds of South Beach hipsters. I shrugged and cashed the check...
I think Norbro viewed it... (though you could've come down- 80 in Feb!).
Funny now, one of my last shoots to pay (Net 60+++) was streaming, now we're trying to figure out how to catch a ride to Stream Vision ©
Was livestreamed and watched live by hundreds of South Beach hipsters. I shrugged and cashed the check...
I think Norbro viewed it... (though you could've come down- 80 in Feb!).
Funny now, one of my last shoots to pay (Net 60+++) was streaming, now we're trying to figure out how to catch a ride to Stream Vision ©
Jaime Valles
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Everything here in NYC is dead. At least with all the work I used to do (theatre workshops and readings, concerts, cabarets, musicals and plays, etc.) there's absolutely nothing happening. I'm expecting my business to get back to normal eventually, as theater stuff isn't going to go away forever. It's just a major delay for now.
These two last months have been dead slow when it comes to being on set but last week I had one job and this week two days of filming. It looks like it starts to drop in jobs again which is good and expected. The world can't be locked down for too long.
I'm keeping the distance as good as I can but no masks or gloves. I asked how make up was going to be done and the make up artist was going to have gloves and mask and do with disposable make up. One has to think twice on how to go about each job.
I'm keeping the distance as good as I can but no masks or gloves. I asked how make up was going to be done and the make up artist was going to have gloves and mask and do with disposable make up. One has to think twice on how to go about each job.
Liam Hall
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95% of my work required getting on a plane, so yes, I'm having to adapt. I did my first two shoots since lockdown last week and another three this week. Two are social-distanced, mask wearing locations shoots with a famous person for a doc. The others are using my home as the location for a couple of ad agencies. In one, my son, wearing a mask, is the on-screen talent and the other is all close-ups of things around the house. I've debated the whole live stream thing, but it's not my bag and prefer to find creative solutions for my clients. I'm confident business will pick up, but it will take a while. I'm less sure if it will ever return to how it was just a few months ago.
puredrifting
Major Contributor
My son. Yep, I don't get it at all. But Twitch is a real thing and there is actually considerable money now in "E Sports".
Personally I feel gaming is a disease, no different than drug or alcohol addiction because few people are light indulgers,
most people I know who are into gaming, it takes over and completely dominates their lives. Casual gaming, no worries.
Obsessive gaming, it's sad. I much prefer to live in the real world, experience nature, travel, real adventure, than fake
adventure through manipulating a game controller.
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NorBro
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Well, you sure will have a real adventure in the real world now.
I do agree it's so unhealthy for so many, but it's also a great escape. A lot of games make you much smarter too; really open up that brain and make you use it. There are many simple games too, but the complex ones are so much more complex than they were in the 90s.
Also, about the live streaming, just to clear something up...even though Twitch is huge, I meant mostly YouTube. Not everyone can afford video games (or every video game and system), so it's great to at least be able to watch other people play.
Honestly, it's not much different than watching a YouTuber's daily vlog. It's content, entertainment...you're passing time.
I do agree it's so unhealthy for so many, but it's also a great escape. A lot of games make you much smarter too; really open up that brain and make you use it. There are many simple games too, but the complex ones are so much more complex than they were in the 90s.
Also, about the live streaming, just to clear something up...even though Twitch is huge, I meant mostly YouTube. Not everyone can afford video games (or every video game and system), so it's great to at least be able to watch other people play.
Honestly, it's not much different than watching a YouTuber's daily vlog. It's content, entertainment...you're passing time.
alaskacameradude
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I suppose. I’m not into watching other people play games,
even games I can’t afford, obviously lots of people do, it
just seems strange to me. Of course I’m not interested
in watching YouTuber’s daily vlogs either, so maybe I’m
the strange one....
puredrifting
Major Contributor
I'm old but even when I was young, I never understood watching other people play sports. Especially Golf. Why watch Golf? Why not go and play 9 holes?
The whole obsessively watching others play video games? More boring than watching paint dry but I am in the distinct minority of people who don't game.
Amazingly, most people do, i think I saw a stat that said 71% of Americans play video games on a regular basis. I've just found the less time I can spend
looking at any screens for anything (work, play), the better. Sometimes when I have to edit for week straight or write 5-10 articles in a row, I just can't take the screen time.
Because I can never get past the windmill in less than 5 strokes. Damn thing beats me every time.
NorBro
Major Contributor
P.S. I think a lot of that internal wiring depends on how you grew up and if you played any sports or engaged in competitive activities. For a lot of people sports is life and 99.9% that play also watch them.
I understand being active vs. watching a screen, but golf is a bad example because it's not cheap or free like throwing around a football or shooting some hoops at a local park or going for a walk.
As far as the video game watching...there is more to it. There are basic tips & tutorials pertaining to overall and/or specific gameplay, but the majority of the interest is for the competition and commentary. The personalities that participate.
YouTube drama is a very big business and it's similar. Animals (people) have always engaged in conflict.
It is a form of entertainment listening to the bicker. And it exists now (has for the last 10+ years or so) because it was impossible to have in previous decades without advanced gaming, affordable real time communication and YouTube. (Although I'm sure someone out there somewhere tried to live stream a daunting game of Tetris in the 90s.)
Personally, I never try to understand what other people do and why. It's just life on a planet to me.
ahalpert
Major Contributor
Nice to know that I'm not the only New York cameraman not shooting. Hopefully things will resume for us before we all go out of business.
alaskacameradude
Veteran
True enough. But not too old to play city league basketball
AND be a starter on the championship team
Sports I get.Playing competitively I get. I even enjoy watching some
sports on TV. As I said I even play video games and have
been known to engage in some trash talk while doing so.
It's just that certain combination of watching other people play
video games.......something about it does nothing for my brain
I guess. I can watch say Lebron and marvel at how he can
jump 38 inches and dunk over some 7 foot tall guy.
I can't watch some dude playing a video game and marvel at
his 'stick skills' in quite the same way I guess. I'd rather
be actually doing something, playing a sport, hiking, biking,
than passively watching someone play a game. Come to
think of it, that's usually when I actually DO play video
games. When it's horrible weather outside, and everyone
else in my house is watching TV. Because I'd often
rather be playing a video game than passively watching
a TV show. Maybe it's all just some sort of ADHD....
puredrifting
Major Contributor
Growing up, the TV was on at my house every weekend and Monday beaming in the pointless circus that is professional football. I understood the game, I just always found it extremely boring to watch.
I don't watch any sports, other than I go to a Superbowl party and my accountant threw a playoff game party for all of his clients, free booze, good food, lots of prizes and I won $100.00 first quarter score
and then I won $200.00 by sweeping the squares at the Superbowl party. Of course, complete, random luck with squares.
I'll watch the Olympics but I don't really consider that "sports" in a way? The events I like are usually the solo events that are most enjoyable to watch. I shot a nice little documentary piece with Olympic Snow
Boarder Chloe Kim so when she kicked ass at the Korea Olympics, I definitely watched that because she was a remarkable young athlete who was great to work with and I was rooting for her to succeed because I
kind of knew her. I've been to Hockey games, NFL and college ball games, it's just so boring to me but I've gone because nice friends and family who areally into it have invited me and I want to spend time with them.
I don't begrudge if someone enjoys vicariously living through overpaid athletes who don't know they exist, that's fine. But it's just not my thing. Sports are obviously a good thing for kids and I am all for it. It's the obsessive
mania that takes hold when people use the fan/team worship as a drug to fill the void in their life that it becomes a bit much.