I can’t believe it’s been a month since that first Monday I woke up and DIDN’T have to shell out £45 for a week of forcefully inserting myself in to someone’s armpit for 30 minutes (return!) to go and sit in an office all day, to instead have a fully flexible diary and be only answerable to myself. What a change! A wonderful one.
The first month has been unexpectedly busy, and it’s amazing to already be able to look back and see I’m overtly heading in the direction I wanted when I made the difficult decision to leave the comfort of my full time production studio job.
I was lucky enough to spend 5 days in Denver and New York securing soundbites for a film about conflict free gold mining. It’s an interesting subject, and I’m delighted my old agency, VisualMedia still trust and value me enough to continue booking me to produce work for their clients.
My job consists of a lot of travel, but more often than not I don’t get the chance to enjoy the locations I’m filming in. With this in mind, and with newfound diary autonomy I extended my time in New York by an extra couple of days and had the most amazing time hanging out with friends, and exploring the incredible city.
America aside, I have spent time on the beach in Kent (thank god for the Indian Summer) and a day in a storage unit filming a pair of web promo films that are currently being edited, have recce’d several London pubs for a short film about a vivacious landlady, spent time in Madame JoJo’s getting inspiration for a short film from an Award winning feature script that I’m really excited to be producing in December, and trying to blag a free bunch of flowers for a no-budget short I’m Producing for one of PunchDrunk’s incredibly talented performer directors.
So. It seems Freelance Month Two has a LOT to live up to!