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[highrider]

Hey since Covid started our shop had several periods where we were super slow. I work as a painter in a collision repair shop. I decided to start doing videos of my work because I had extra time on jobs and thought it would be a very effective resume for future work opportunities but I found I really enjoyed the process.

Videos of refinishing and clear coat application are almost always exclusively geared towards people in the trade, rock music, some guy spraying the latest awesome gun on an incredible car, or they are heavily instructional. I wanted to do some videos that showed how cool it was as a process like any craft. Sort of a relaxing, atmospheric feeling. Something that might be interesting to someone that wasn’t necessarily in to refinishing. I edited them in IMovie and composed all of the music in Garage Band. I’m no musician but I like the stuff I do better than stock music. And mods I realize this is kind of shameless self promotion, no hard feelings if you need to pull it. I could use some feedback from people that don’t paint cars and aren’t my friends and family that tend to like everything I do lol. I have posted these in the show your art thread but I don’t know if it’s an art, more crafty.

 

[DESTROYA]

Looks great, have you ever tripped yourself on a air hose and ruined any paint jibs by bracing yourself from falling?

 

[haxan7]

Paint jobs themselves look awesome. Since you asked for some objective feedback/criticism, here are some ideas of what would make the videos more interesting to watch for me:

• get a friend to do some slow pan/steady cam shots while you’re painting. The single shot for the whole thing is a little boring. Maybe even hire someone for camerawork since you said it was for your resume.
• Time lapse - show the whole process of the cars coming in and the plastic being applied. Basically anything extra you can do to show the whole process from start to finish quickly. All I see is the cars getting sprayed for the most part
• Maybe even combine the above with some kind of narration
• start at the end (show the finished car outside of the paint room), then show the process of how you got there
  
  

 

[highrider]

Paint jobs themselves look awesome. Since you asked for some objective feedback/criticism, here are some ideas of what would make the videos more interesting to watch for me:

• get a friend to do some slow pan/steady cam shots while you’re painting. The single shot for the whole thing is a little boring. Maybe even hire someone for camerawork since you said it was for your resume.
• Time lapse - show the whole process of the cars coming in and the plastic being applied. Basically anything extra you can do to show the whole process from start to finish quickly. All I see is the cars getting sprayed for the most part
• Maybe even combine the above with some kind of narration
• start at the end (show the finished car outside of the paint room), then show the process of how you got there

Yeah I have stuff like that as well but I haven’t figured out how to shorten them more. The best I’ve done is like 13 minutes. I can’t really get help unfortunately with filming, the PPE is expensive and I don’t have any friends. Appreciate the criticism

 

[highrider]

Looks great, have you ever tripped yourself on a air hose and ruined any paint jibs by bracing yourself from falling?

You’re in very high state of concentration when one mistake could mean hundreds of dollars and time lost. The typical material costs are around 500 to 800 dollars on jobs like these, that would be a 1200 dollar mistake. So no.