The First Week

Well. It's been a full week of additional work that I've had to undertake as a comp lead. It's exciting, yet tiring at the same time.

Like I mentioned last week, the responsibilities of a lead are two fold. Make sure you do your work, and make sure the other artists on your watch are doing their work. Luckily the artists that are working on our Chevy commercials know what they're doing, so very little handholding is necessary. It is a commercial project, so we have yet another deadline to meet this Saturday, as well as next Saturday, and then the Saturday after. Out of the fourteen shots that we're doing for our next spot, I'll be comping three of them, while the other 11 will be divided up fairly equally on to the other three guys.

A fairly small, good, crew for these three Chevy spots. I'm having a great time leading. It's pushing more of my brain cells in the direction that I want them to go. I'm now looking at the shots as a whole, instead of just a particular one at a time. One of the drawbacks of being a lead and comping at the same time, is that I can't just sit down and comp on a shot and not be bothered! I've got to constantly check how other people are doing, making sure the other compers have what they need to do their shots, as well as make sure that they're not encountering any roadblocks in their comps.