Choosing between two windowless rooms

So the films have been shot and are sitting on various hard disks ready to be imported and edited. I can say with all honesty that producing 'Breathing Room' was an experience, it was fun, it was enjoyable it was painfully exhausting at times. It all comes with the territory.

I do not regret having picked producing for my second specialism for these films, it has given me an insight to an area that I really didn't have that much respect for before. Production classes were the thorn in my side in second year. I really don't know what made me pick it as a second choice, maybe I was tired, maybe it was a glitch in the matrix. I did see alot of black cats that day hanging around.

This might sound like I am stamping all over Production, but this was before I had actually had time to do it. During the time producing I definitely have learned to respect it, its one hell of a gig. I found myself not quite knowing what to do for the first few days, but I soon got into the swing of things.

Going back on what I've said in previous posts, I feel I have grown up alot. I feel more responsible in alot of ways. I feel more organised in the way I approach things and the way I deal with people, I no longer have trouble speaking to people I'm not to sure of. These are tools I will carry with me into the industry and for the rest of my life. I do not regret picking producing one little bit.

But now lies the question, do I choose a production office with no windows or an edit suite with no windows? Well it was a difficult call, I did swing backwards and forwards in my head a lot of times before coming to my decision. My thought process was what would get me further into the industry.

Producing seems to the better choice for this, but then I got thinking. Everyone person we have in to speak to us at the Academy have started of as runners and various amongst various other roles. So I don't think it really matters a huge amount what specialism's we choose, we could end up all being bankers. It all depends on the chances that present themselves and acting on them. This made me think that just because I pick one subject I like over another subject I also like it doesn't thus mean I can't do the other.

So after sometime thinking about it I have chosen to specialise in Editing. This is an area I have enjoyed working with-in since I first started with this film malarky 4 years ago. This is not to turn my back on producing but I do think out of the two I enjoy editing alot more than I do producing. Before editing I was possibly a little lazy, so producing has really given me that drive that I lacked before.

So Adam you can put me down for editing next year.

That is all

Michael Maxwell