#videbros

[darkwing-katy]

So I'm getting ready to take my Visual Special Effects final, and we're allowed to have notes. I happened to write the cram notes in the same notebook as a few Van Helsing fanfiction diagrams. I'm flipping through it, and the guy next to me says, "Kill attempts?" Which just happened to be the page I stopped on, listing about seven different ways of killing (Dracula, for continuity purposes). "Should I be concerned?" I just laughed and said yes.

[darkwing-katy]

Alright, looks like I'm back on for Saturday. Yay for 12-hour days with mah videbros!

[darkwing-katy]

I was so excited for my 9-hour shoot on Saturday because I was gonna get to hang out with my videbros, namely Kale. Now both he and I have been cut from the crew, so instead I'm probably going to get shitfaced. Oh well. At least there's still Friday!

[darkwing-katy]

So. Much. Kale. In my visual effects class, we have a keying project that involves setting up a green screen. The teacher encouraged us to work in groups. All of the girls immediately banded together to plan a time to set up the screen, myself included. Except I had to work during the time they set it up, so I didn't actually do anything. They still gave me the footage, though. Cut to yesterday, when Kale messaged me about class. He then asked if I started on the project yet. Naturally I lied and said no. He then said that he and Denzel (a videbro) were gonna do it, and invited me. I said (hell) yeah. There was some flirting in class, too. At least I think it was flirting. There was familiarity, at least. So today we three worked on the project all afternoon, and there was talking and joking and (on my end) semi-flirting and lots of eye contact. He even made me feel good about my braces. It was great. I could not stop smiling or laughing (but he was being really funny, too). And then in class there was the occasional deaf joke and me tripping him. I also punched another Videbro on the arm when we watched the new Star Wars trailer. So yes. This has been a good week.

[darkwing-katy]

So I spent 6 hours in the edit suite tonight, and it was awesome. First off, because I fucking love editing. Second off, because Kale and I talked more Supernatural. Third, because videbro Wes and I stayed behind for another hour after everyone else dribbled out and fixed up his rough cut. It's nice being amongst editing videbros, because we're all taking the same footage and making different versions. We all edit differently. And we ask each other for input, advice on cuts, what broll to use, if something looks right. Plus Wes is the guy that showed me what a fucking awesome editor can do freshman year. I decided I wanted to be as good as him. And we walked to the parking garage together, just talking about videbros, despite th fact that I live on campus.

[darkwing-katy]

My videbros are currently making fun of me for coining the term "videbro".

[darkwing-katy]

Guuuuuyyyyyssss

Class tonight technically ended at 8:30. I knew I’d be staying later to finish editing and colour correcting the project I was working on, so while half the people in the editing suite packed up around 8ish, I stayed in my chair. Kale came over and started talking to me, asking if I’d seen the first two minutes of the walking dead season five return. I didn’t even know it had been released, so I freaked out, but in a smooth way, because I put my hand on his arm while freaking out. Very smooth, Kate. Very smooth.

So he pulled out his computer to show me, I colour-corrected a bit more, and then watched it. Then we talked about how there’s only like, three more days to wait, how all the (spoiler) Beth feels came back, and how awesome it was gonna be.

Then he mentioned that he’s finished season four of supernatural (yeah, I found out he started watching it last night) and is on episode 2 of season 5. I asked him what he thought of Ruby’s betrayal and such, then mentioned that his talking about it Wed made me want to continue watching it (since I finally finished Parks and Rec), so I had resumed earlier today. Then we laughed about the black-and-white monster movie episode, and I told him that one of my fave eps was coming soon (Changing Channels!!!). We talked supernatural for a bit, then I transitioned it to GISHWHES somehow, and told him he should do it this year. And we talked more, before he said he should probably leave. I made fun of him, and he said he would be willing to stay if he didn’t have a 40 minute drive ahead of him.

So long story short, I think I’m making progress. Now I just need to covertly mention liveblogging TWD when it returns and then transition that into asking for his phone number. I think it could work. I almost did tonight, but then the moment was gone, so I’ll wait. For now, talking in person and random Facebook messaging will do.

Oh, and the other editing team really liked what I did with the footage. More than theirs. Even if it was technically too long. Times like this, I get reminded that I actually am a decent editor who knows when to make the cut. It makes me happy.

[darkwing-katy]

Remember how I was stressing earlier about my demo reel, and how embarrassing it was gonna be? It was fine. I didn't even show it. We ended up watching this year's band video, the trailer for Cinderhella, and an old Doritos commercial I did freshman year. I got some good reaction sounds from my videbros, so I must be doing something right.