Jeff Ridout

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Updates!

So the police dinner went great, as you pretty people saw with my lovely pic of me and the Chief himself.

The pitch edits are going great. Working on three at once. Waiting for some Voice Over work from one guy, and graphic front ends from my designer extra-ordinaire Emma . Check out her reel folks. shes really good and super great to work with.  Emma's Reel.

More updates to come! SOOO BUSY


Monday, May 14, 2012

Taxes are no laughing matter

I made some mistakes the past couple days. I paid my taxes but I didn't file the paper work properly. So now I have to call the CRA. READ EVERYTHING THEY SEND YOU

Over Worked

I've been overworked and I've been swamped. There is a difference. Over Worked means you are at the end of the line. The stress of deadlines, the worry of making them, it eats at your ability to function properly. Everything becomes annoying.
Friends, family, those you love, especially those you love. Why?
They distract you from finishing your work!!!
Damn you love!
At then end, it's delivered, and you ask yourself, was it worth the effort?
Maybe.
One of my clients requires a fairly simple assemble with a massive 20-30 hour render. ANYTHING that goes wrong, and you've wasted days of render work. This precarious teetering urks me to no end.
Then another client is trying to rip me off by coming back and low balling me after AFTER I invoiced them. 
To top it off, I'm going to Banff to pitch some shows and I'm not quite done the edits needed.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I need better time management.
Back to multi tasking.
AChoo.

Friday, May 11, 2012

Produced the Toronto Police Chiefs Dinner

Hi Ya'll. I've been swamped to high heaven. From making shorts for all my pitches going to Banff, to producing awesome floor shows, I do NOT STOP>
This time it was the Chief of Police Dinner at the Liberty Grande.
What a great event. Barking Mad Media was hired by the always lovely and talented Rachel Woodman who is doing a stint at the Michael Communications.
There were hick-ups which I will talk about shortly, but mostly. it went smoothly. I edited SUPER fast, directed my camera peeps, overall it was good being the producer instead of the camera op.
Now its on to other bigger and better things!
Jeff