Spy/career visit reflection
Our first field trip in the digital safari academy for the juniors finally happened. All of us were wanting to go on a field trip for quite some time now and we finally had one. Our morning started off by getting to school being in the cold. Me and my friends were talking about where we all were going and thinking about all the cool work and projects that they have made and expecting to see something really amazing that will blow our mind away. The juniors were divided into three groups that went to a post production place, and TV/ commercial broadcasting place, and a production studio housing film place. In my group we went to San Fransisco to a post production place called Spy where they have worked on commercials, movies, and many other amazing cool jobs that they enjoy doing.
As my group was at Spy, we were able to sit down and talk to an employee about what his job was and ask him questions about his work life. The employee’s name was Darren and his job title is a creative director/flame operator where Darren oversees the creative team to help develop the agency’s creative product for clients. As a flame operator Darren is responsible for being a production of 3D Stereoscopic and HD visual effects for a fast-paced broadcast environment. After talking to Darren for an hour we talked to another employee which was a flame artist and his job is to create exciting and complex commercial spots and lead a team and / or collaborate with other team members on projects from concept to delivery. After going on this field trip I learned a ton of many amazing career fields in the multimedia industry and even new jobs being made every year with the fascinating work that people do in tv, commercials, and big hit movies such as Iron Man, Avatar, and working on the next movie Priest which will be coming in march.
After this going on this Field trip to Spy my mind was racing through careers in the industry that this has changed my perspective in what I want to do for the rest of my life and some day have a family and being able to provide for them. In this point in my life i want to research many multimedia based careers to where it comes to VFX editing, flame artist, colorist, and graphic design. Its my junior year and still have half of this year and my final year of high school coming my way and also thinking about college of where to even go.
