I feel like an idiot!!!!! (Apologies, gratuitous venting rant...)

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gorillaonabike

This evening, I had the privilege of sitting down with a pro who kindly gave me a critique of what I have done so far. He is a multiple short film prizewinner, has a beautiful short film doing the festivals at the moment and works in the advertising industry on commercials. Some of the commercials he has worked on would be instantly known by all the Brits on this forum.

He tells me my first short is excellent considering it is a 'first.' However, he gave me a simple, really nice critique on three changes he would have made. Those three changes were absolutely brilliant and would've clearly elevated my first short to an entirely different level.

He also had a look at my music video 'test' and gave me two critiques which were absolutely perfect and I couldn't believe I hadn't seen them. I sort of had seen them but was blundering around.

All of this to say I felt like the complete novice that I am. I feel like a complete, blundering idiot and feel like a total novice.

His parting comment was that I shouldn't worry because everyone has to start somewhere and what I have done, for my level, is outstanding and to keep going. However, I am now beating myself up because I feel like a complete numpty for not having done them in the first place. It is all so obvious now!!!!!

Sorry, just had to vent...
 
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Chillax, dude.
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You're doing just fine. Hindsight is always 20-20, and all that jazz. Don't have a stroke over it. :lol:
 
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Awesome that you're getting such good feedback at such an early stage in your career! People pointing out things you could have done better helps you learn.

I can relate to your frustration, but I love those breakthrough "I'm such an idiot" moments. Every time you have one, you come out of it a little bit stronger!
 
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gorillaonabike said:
All of this to say I felt like the complete novice that I am. I feel like a complete, blundering idiot and feel like a total novice.
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Get used to it!! If it's any consolation, that feeling never changes! As the years tick by the magnitude of the mistakes lessen but in my experience the feeling associated with them doesn't lessen in proportion. It might be that no one else notices the mistakes, not even another audio post expert but I can't think of anything I ever done where there's not a least one (and usually many) parts where in retrospect I think what I did sounded just like a novice.

Get angry with yourself, learn from it and move on is my advice.

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I agree with everyone's comments here. The first "big" scheduled film I tried to make turned out bad. Not really an awful film just very amateurish. I felt sick after finally sitting down with the footage and it not looking like I thought it should. But I didn't let it stop me from making stuff. I just kept getting behind the camera and shooting. Now my videos are getting closer to what I want them to look like mainly because I learned what not to do.
 
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