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Topic: How many hats do you wear? How many hats do you like?
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Frank Angel
Film God
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Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 04-22-2006 01:06 AM
Wearing lots of hats has been what makes the job always interesting. Let's see:
Cinema Director: Booking, budgeting, marketing, brochure design, brochure bulk mailing supervision, even local hand delivery, development Projectionist Design, install, maintenance and Program and Promo Producer for lobby monitor display system Sound Studio Manager and Mixing Engineer Live Events House Sound Mixer and Recording Engineer Broadcast Technical Director Sound Studio Mastering and Dubbing Engineer Radio Programming Producer Radio Programming promo spot producer PAC Systems Supervisor PAC Computer Services, Network Adminstrator Telco Digital Switch Adminstrator Voice Artist (Telephone System Menu & Events Calendar) Electronic Marquee Administrator Administrator, Maas-Rowe Carillon and Clock system for Brooklyn College campus. Composer, various electronic music and musique concrete works for June Lewis Dance Company
Outside Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts --
AFTRA VoiceOver Artist (Most recently, GEICO national ad campaign) Cinema Consultant & Projectionist, various venues including Brooklyn Museum, Celebrate Brooklyn Outdoor Summer Festival, Smithsonium Museum of the American Indian Author, Brooklyn, A State of Mind: Saving A Palace(Loew's Kings) Audio engineer, TABLE SETTING -- HEO Productions (Stockard Channing and Robert Klein, Mindy Cohn Eileen Heckart) Is it any wonder I am still here in the office at 2am on a Friday night? But I wouldn't have it any other way. I could have retired a year ago....it is not even a remote thought in my mind yet. I feel like I am 25yrs old, but without the drama or the wife (or were they both one and the same?). I attribute feeling this good to being lucky enough to have great varity in my work. Sometimes I will work for 12hrs and forget to eat I am having so much fun. Some of my friends hate going to work and they are in agony just waiting until 5pm rolls around; I almost feel guilty that I love my work so much -- almost doesn't seem fair.
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Frank Angel
Film God
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Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 04-22-2006 02:05 AM
Actually Tim, when it's lined up that way, it does sound like serious abuse, but the nice thing is none of this runs concurrently. The Cinema operation was running a regularly scheduled series when they were able to give me some very good assistants and tech support. They are gone so now we only do CinEvents -- small groups of themed films, or a big deal with directors and or actors doing roundtable discussions, but they are a few this month, one or two the next. Allot of the stuff, once it's running, just chugs along without much intervention. And everything is at my own pace and I am pretty much left alone to my own devices. Really, it's not as bad as it looks.
That's the idea of different hats -- most of the time I swap 'em, only rarely do I put more than two or three on at the same time. On occasion I will feel they are handing me more than is reasonable and I give just them back. I know how to say NO, which was one of the most difficult lessons to learn; they oughta teach THAT in school.
Yeah, yeah, Michael....what you don't know is, who do you think was the Senior Interpol agent giving you your assignments? Huh? That's right, baby! Why do you think you had to pick them up in that dumpster off Flatbush Avenue in Prospect Park in Brooklyn?
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Michael Schaffer
"Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?"
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Posts: 4143
From: Boston, MA
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 04-22-2006 10:58 PM
quote: Frank Angel Yeah, yeah, Michael....what you don't know is, who do you think was the Senior Interpol agent giving you your assignments? Huh? That's right, baby! Why do you think you had to pick them up in that dumpster off Flatbush Avenue in Prospect Park in Brooklyn?
Frank, Frank... Of course we knew it was you all the time. Did you think the slouch hat and trench coat thing fooled anybody? BTW, you weren't working for Interpol, that was just a facade, part of a bigger setup. But it's better for your safety if I don't tell you more. The Russians always said you must be either a bloody amateur, a really good actor, or working for the North Koreans.
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Phil Blake
Jedi Master Film Handler
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Posts: 558
From: esperance western australia
Registered: Nov 2003
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posted 04-23-2006 08:01 AM
Just like many others i guess, my hats include from standard booth operations, to cleaning, candy and ticket sales , interior and exterior maintenance , equipment servicing, banking staff rostering ordering supplies, system programming , catering during functions and advertising .And in my spare time I do a little long distance truck driving .
This is all good , but becomes hard when a holidays are needed , so hard to teach a replacement to cover all these espects.
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