First day at a new school is always an odd experience.
I'll be brief because i'm super tired at it's already nearly midnight and I have to get up for another one tomorrow. Drove to work with my flatmate, shit, I just realised I haven't actually paid for the room yet. Anyway, arrived in the studio and got shown my sound studio, very nice, all acoustically treated, air con... and with a sofa too. Problem is, the user account hasn't been set up cos the IT guys are on holiday, but they'll be in later. So i have a play of one of the games I'll be working on, really great fun and I could see how I can improve things (which is always a relief when that is what you've been asked to do). I then get asked to go back home to get my passport, I don't really understand what for, but off I go with the composer in his convertible eighties car into the beautiful sunshine... I love that car. Come back, do some paperwork and get whisked off by Angel, the office admin, around Palma to go stand in a few queues and have long chats. She's got that great 'no nonsense' attitude I've noticed a lot of Spanish speaking people have, very much the way I talk to people too.
Anyway, we get funked around a bit and have to drive to some other fancy looking building to wait in another queue for an hour or so, by this point i'm boiling and reaslised i haven't drunk all day. She has a chuckle at my 'very polite' use of Spanish to lady in a cafe 'beunos tardes quieseira un agua sin gas por favor'...
After more waiting around only for a lady to stamp some pieces of paper we come back to the studio, the IT guys have been called off for some emergency so I never get my computer login sorted. Have a playthrough of the bigger of the two projects with the composer. I'm really impressed, especially from the audio potential. It really is a great chance for some amazing sound and I feel lucky to have landed this position at this time in development. The teams are also incredibly receptive of my ideas and infact encourage my brain farts... I've even been offered extra audio RAM and programmer time without even asking for it... neither of which EVER happens.
Spend the rest of the day chatting with a producer from England who gives me his lowdown of the place, I've been getting that a lot, really interesting to hear different people's perspectives.
Anyway, first impressions are incredibly good. The atmosphere in the studio is fantastic, everyone is laughing and joking, there are no scooters (people at Blitz will understand that) and it just feels like a healthy environment. There's a whole floor given to the 40 of us for socialising, with table tennis, table football, pool, massive TVs/consoles, sofas, free food, they even have karate lessons, language lessons, rock climbing, etc... it's like one of those fancy North American devs where they really value people that i didn't think existed. My audio set up is also nice, big Genelecs, Mackie control, recording booth, legit software... I'm feeling a bit spoiled really :)
After work (i left about 8) we head back and go shopping, my first supermarkardo (or however it's spelt)... i was unsure how the spanish shop, but it's all good, they even have horrible english stuff that I hate. I almost bought Mallorca's famed black pig blood sausage, but given i hadn't eaten all day (!!) i bottled it at the last minute.
So that was mostly it, i donno, loads else has happened but due to hunger and oversaturation it's all turned into a bit of a blur and i can't really remember much...
It feels like a great adventure so far though and I'm loving every second of it :)
R
(Angel filling in yet another form for me at some administeral building)
No comments:
Post a Comment