Week 12: Return of the normal posts...

We are back to weekly posts that are enforced by my 2014 diary (had to blow off the dust...)

On the Wednesday (What I class the start of my work week, and Tuesday is classed as the end of the week... If you hadn't noticed...) I turned up to work, but my boss had taken the hard drive and laptop with my project on (Avro sisters) which meant that I had nothing to do. After a wait of about an hour and a few texts (which never sent I might add), I was asked over the phone to get the serial numbers for his: 4 cameras (All JVC); Audio mixer; Talk Back; and Tricaster. When talking to my boss, he said that he would arrived when I finish collecting the serial numbers and within 15-20 minutes I was done and had waited for him to arrive. It is all I could do, since there were no projects available to edit on the machines present and there was no packing since previous projects were with other editors, miles away.

Then he finally arrived and rather than getting me straight on with Avro Sisters, I had to create an Amazon listing for a single DVD to see if it would sell. After much confusion and having to explain the costing against having amazon to fulfil and fulfilling the postage themselves, I had finally finished. However most of my day was gone... So I made some audio changes to my edits and went home.

The DVD in question.., (Click the blue text)

On Friday, I returned and had a better day and actually got work done! Or so I thought... Within one day, the editing laptop had crashed 15 times, restarted three times and set me back an entire day due to its inability to understand what 'save' means, or even 'save as'.  Not only did this set the edit for AVRO sisters behind an entire day, it looked as if I had done no work what so ever. To add insult to injury, when my boss had returned the laptop worked fine! And because there was a day lost, I technically did nothing. See Below the laptop in question:

Here is my laptop and the only picture I managed to snap during the entire stressful situation.

However I did do the following:

• Finished the draft edit for East Kirkby
• Finished completed Lincoln Vulcan Lancaster edit

Where I got to after 14th attempt before it died

After a long talk with the bosses son on the phone, we figured out that the anti-virus was in fact causing the problem, as well as an out-dated driver. I left hoping Monday would be a more productive day.


Which leads to Monday, the penultimate day of this epic saga of work experience, but just another day in regards to paid work. Today started off not too well, after visiting the doctors I arrived at work and to my surprise, my boss had forgotten the fiasco of Friday and assumed what I had done before as a draft was solid and said what I had done was all wrong. From there, I spent the rest of the day rectifying East Kirkby edit, which I planned to do anyway. However, with my boss stood over me most of the time, I felt pressured and got flustered rather quickly and made several mistakes and felt like I couldn't edit properly. But after 6 and a half hours, I had rectified the mistake and made sure (5 times) that the project had saved before I had left. The edit for East Kirkby section of AVRO sisters should last around the 10 minute 30 second mark. 

Thank you for following this blog, and it will turn into a production blog in the new year with new projects hopefully!

Josh

Final hours: 194 hours and 20 minutes