Name: Gordon Schücker
IG: gordon_schckr
Age: 26
Location: Göttingen, Germany / Marseille, France
Top skills: life long and fast learner, process optimization freak (includes everything i.e. also video editing), statistics and data geek, master photographer, video geek, ski instructor, kitesurf instructor, (high) cliff diver (27m max, flips up to 15m), surfer (okayisch level), sports junky, finance freak, workaholic, reading geek, ultra early technology adopter, gear nut, native fluent in French and German and close to native fluent in English, veteran globe trotter, high values and ethics, wholehearted, highly creative, it’s all about the shot, humble, highly adaptable, easy to get along, honest, kind and love throwing money at problems.
4.Include a Youtube video in your mail (reel first, then 30s intro):
5. Tell us about your personal situation (80/80 words):
Currently writing my master thesis in mathematics in Göttingen, Germany. Not long to finish but if I get to work with you, I’ll have to set new priorities anyways, meaning that traveling up to 31 days a month should be more than doable again :). Other than that I help out at the sports faculty with being a ski & kitesurf instructor and photographer & videographer. Seriously thinking about starting a video optimization process oriented start-up (see Bonus Section).
6. Editing, Photo and Video experiences and what you are best at (79/80 words):
Edit:
One documentary, one fun hour long GoPro film, dozens of small Edits. Excellent workflow (personalized keyboard shortcut geek), only thing slowing me back is hardware and inefficient software (two fully featured 15 Inch MBPs).
Photography (definitely best at):
Most efficient workflow in the world (1DXmarkII + Photo Mechanics + Adobe with presets), can sort thousands of photos per hour.
Video: Filming mainly sports, especially ski and kitesurfing (GoPro, 1DXmarkII, DJIP4). But process optimization and learning quickly are my main skills. Challenge.
7. Attach 3 photos of you that represents you well! [1920px rule assumed]
8. Attach 3 photos that you edited, max resolution 1920px (specify what programs you used to edit the photos).
Program for edit: Adobe Lightroom Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop. All photos below have been taken and edited by be except the sunset wave photo with is a photo of myself taken by someone else.
9. Attach 3 photos that you took, max resolution 1920px (specify what camera you used to edit the photos).
I did not use any camera to edit the photos, but I took them with a Canon 6D and a Canon 7D mark II :). (see comment above)
10. Write what you can bring to Team Overkill and why we should hire you (97/100 words):
I may meet all your requirements but Team Overkill should be expanded by way more than one person. People could work over the internet for you in so many ways (see again Bonus section). You should really check out Tim Ferriss and his resource (time & money) optimization. You spend way too much time in front of a computer, not just for editing (email for example?!)! It’s not only about working hard, it’s about working hard smart and you could get a lot better at throwing money at problems! (And not overpaying 700 Euro for a lens).
11. Stick to the above to help our time! If you are considered we will ask a lot more so we can get into details later! 😉 Its also a test to see if you can follow instructions! 😉
Got it. If you want me to rigorously stick to your rules PLEASE STOP READING AND CONSIDER THIS APPLICATION WITH THE ABOVE DONE. If you allow a little rule bending, please also consider the “bonus section”.
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I would love to know what you think about our start up ideas below as I feel myself, like you, also highly hindered in my creativity with all these software and hardware bottlenecks around media production.
Our ideas would focus on
1) efficient data ingesting. For example automatically split photos and videos in separate folders during import. (Very similar to what Photo Mechanics does)
2) Enable one-click generation of proxies to convert all your 4k slowmo footage to for example 720p slowmo footage for super fast scrubbing and editing. And scrubbing 4k footage even on a fully feature MBP is such a pain in the ass… which should not be the case at all in my opinion.
3) Outsource some video editing. The final dream would be to have live footage recording and transmitting. Think of a team of possible thousands of Marcus’s sitting all over the world in front of their computer and receiving footage live (may it be first with very low quality proxies, 360p proxies at 0,4mbits would weight 1500 times less than 4k red footage, i.e. 2TB of raw data would be like 1.3GB in proxies) that can then be edited straight away. By the time you are home you have a preliminary Premiere Pro Project sitting in your Dropbox ready for review (only need to relink the data to the original 4k footage, easy in Premiere Pro). In addition one could easily include sick AE effects, possible thumbnails, social tested titles, etc. Although for short term VLOGs this might be tough to implement, especially if you are somewhere, where the internet is really shitty, but for slightly bigger and longer term projects this could be a game changer.
4) Same thing for photos? Rough sorting with Photo Mechanics could thin out 90% of the taken photos, everything else can then be uploaded and outsourced.
Even if that would cost you like 100 Euro of Internet per day, imagine how this could boost productivity!
Thanks for reading the bonus section, other than that, you may also like the following quotes:
Time is one of several currencies – something you trade for something else. Capital is renewable. Time is non-renewable. If you’re finding you consistently don’t have time, it’s a symptom of not having sufficiently clear priorities.
— Tim Ferriss
Now there are two kinds of working hard: you can work smart or you can work dumb. When I was in sixth grade my dad dumped a pile of bricks in the backyard and after school he had us, me and my brothers, move the bricks to the side yard. The next day he had us move them back to the backyard, next day back to the side yard, and so forth. This continued for quite awhile. I’m not sure what he intended by this but I did learn that work, hard work, for hard work’s sake alone would not do. Later, in observing the tenure system so endemic to academic ventures, I would think to myself, “Hey they are just moving a pile of bricks”.
— Michael Burry
Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.
— Casey Neistat
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