By: Dsign
I did the same thing with a web design job — I’d built sites off of templates before but totally said I knew HTML and CSS when I didn’t.
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Correction, Ryan. We didn’t say we were hiring graphic designers. We said we were hiring “cheap photoshop monkeys to crop pictures.” By that standard, you were probably as qualified as anyone else...
View ArticleBy: Ryan
Erik, if you’d paid me what you originally quoted it wouldn’t have been as cheap! You know it took me two years to get up to the day rate you first quoted? Carrot dangler!
View ArticleBy: Free fonts galore « NoFilmSchool
[...] I was a (fake) graphic designer at MTV, we never once purchased a font. Well, I’m sure someone paid for our [...]
View ArticleBy: How to use After Effects « NoFilmSchool
[...] training courses because it’s an inexpensive monthly plan that I used to learn Photoshop and got a job at MTV, and they have a free 24-hour trial as well). Still, if you’ve ever wanted to use...
View ArticleBy: Why I Lived out of a Suitcase for Ten Months (And Why You Should Too!) -...
[...] end let’s look at what I (used to) make.Day Job EconomicsAs a Senior Designer at MTV (a job I lied my way into), my salary was apparently $74,849 (my tax return is above). If you divide this...
View ArticleBy: Online software training with Lynda.com | DSLR Toolbox
[...] really has you covered to brush up or learn new applications. Check out this blog post by Ryan Koo of NoFilmSchool.com and author of The Free DSLR Cinematography Guide. He got a graphic [...]
View ArticleBy: MRH
Hahaha, I did almost the same thing, except I had a small portfolio of flyers I had done when I DJ’d/promoted parties back in University… but somehow I managed to convince the production company I was...
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[...] it often gets short shrift. I say this partially as a filmmaker and partially as someone who was a designer at MTV for three years of interfaces that are still used by hundreds of thousands of...
View ArticleBy: Five Tips to Find Professional Crew Members for Free - NoFilmSchool
[...] couldn’t have been the only one to pass on that listing. For one, I doubt anybody with a day job wants to do a weekend project for 3 months straight. Secondly, most professional crew aren’t [...]
View ArticleBy: What Indie Filmmakers Can Learn from Kanye West - NoFilmSchool
[...] copies — music’s equivalent of film’s advance press screenings). I’m a former employee of the digital music industry, and at Rhapsody we would digitize and catalog albums days or weeks ahead of...
View ArticleBy: How to Track Motion in After Effects (Using the Free Plugin Mocha) -...
[...] it’s $25/month for unlimited courses, which is an offer that I took advantage of years ago to fake my way into MTV as a graphic designer (money well spent). For a practical application of...
View ArticleBy: How to Set the Back Focus on a Video Camera - NoFilmSchool
[...] happened when, years ago, I had been hired as a camera operator on a multi-camera shoot. Sometimes talking your way into a position can you get you into trouble, and I wasn’t really qualified to...
View ArticleBy: Hours Don’t Lie: Why Tracking Time = Getting Things Done (and Why to Live...
[...] you can see, for me, 2010 was about this web site. I’d done the day job thing at MTV, I’d done the freelance thing on my own, and I decided that neither was going to allow me to [...]
View ArticleBy: Nel
Awesome. I did the same thing once. We creative folks can make anything up, even our portfolios!
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