The great thing about working in post is that it’s never predictable. Of course, if you like things to always be a certain way, this may not be the career for you. I personally love that fact that every time the phone rings there’s some new thing waiting to happen. Take yesterday for example. After finishing a mixing session for director Steve Yager’s short film “Helmet”, I thought I had a little time to catch up on that mundane stuff like oh, having fa decent meal. No dinner for moi. At 9pm my cell rings, “Can we write some music for a commercial? Oh, and we need it by 12pm tomorrow.” Sure, no problem, I can sleep when I’m dead as the saying goes. So, fueled by our handy espresso machine (hands down the best investment for the studio last year) we return to the studio and set out to compose a couple of tracks. Actually, I am a natural night owl, as are a lot of creative types and if the world didn’t dictate daytime business hours, I’m sure we’d be working a lot more late, late nights here at the studio. We came up with 2 versions to give them options and uploaded it all to the ftp at 6am. At 10am we get the call they like version 1 and can we tweak it out a little? Sure no problem. You have to love the joy of modern technology. We make the revisions, upload it, e-mail the link, they download it at the mix and voila! A commercial is done. And we never even saw any of the agency people. It was all done via phone calls, e-mails and ftp. I mixed an entire film for a client in Vancouver, Canada this winter and we did it all through e-mail, phone, ftp and messengers. The world is a small place now. Very small. So now, after a quick nap, we’re embarking on our next film project.
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