The Sockeye office had been in the upstairs of Union Station for almost 17 years, last week I helped them out in a move to their new place. They are now located on the 3rd floor of the Leftbank building, right across the river from their old office (you can even see it out the window). The new space is super cool, and is very wide open. 

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The view of the old office from the new office

the Leftbank building, Sockeye is on the top floor

Moving day

Moved in

hard at work.

James in the east edit suite

My desk area

Laura, my mentor

Telly awards that sockeye has won over the years

On Cinco de Mayo James filmed Sockeye's office party, he shot 6 minutes of footage in around 9 different clips. Yesterday he and Laura asked me to edit the video to put on Sockeye's blog. I sat in the East edit room at a desk behind James; he told me the basic layout and keyboard shortcuts of Final Cut Pro, and  set me off on my own to make the initial edit. It was super helpful both watching James edit, and being able to ask him questions as I worked. After about an hour I had put together a 2 minute edit of the piece that I was pretty happy with.

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Clips

Initial edit

Sequence 2, lots of fat, note the length of the different cuts

Final 50 second edit with music

 Last tuesday we shot the "Recess Wellness" video out in Wilsonville. It is a comedy viral video that is supposed to end up about 2 minutes long, over 2 and a half hours of footage was shot. The crew arrived on location at 7 am and we finished the day around 5.

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The big shoot is tomorrow. We start at 7:00 and end around 5:00 (hopefully), it will be a long day, but Im sure that Ill learn tons. I was assigned to create a huge box of "The Shake" cans, a fake product that we invented for the movie. I designed the label with the art director at sockeye, and worked on the cans myself.This is also the first day in the new space (across the river from union station). Its a lot bigger, and has a crazy view, I will upload pictures of it tomorrow, along with the post-shoot blog post.

My first few days at Sockeye have been a lot of fun. Earlier this week we went on a location scout in Wilsonville at the Hollywood Video corporate offices. Because their company went bankrupt, the offices are pretty much a ghost town and its the perfect location for their "Corporate Wellness" video (a short viral comedy piece filmed in the same style as "The Office")

I start my project tomorrow at Sockeye Creative. We are moving the entire editing suite from their current building in Union Station into their new space, so there will be a lot of work to be done. Im super excited about begining my project there, it looks like they have a lot of great stuff in store for me.