Application Submitted

Wed 4th Feb 2009 @ 11:16 AM

The ordeal that is submitting for this job is horrendous. Your heart races as you type in the respective fields, then you get down to City / Town, State / Provence, Country / Region and nowhere can you find Nationality. I don't want to be lumped in with all the other British candidates, but I do want them to fly me home if they select me.

Then it comes to uploading the file... sub 100MB, well it was original sub 100MB, now changed to sub 90MB. I re-compress and try again, and it times out.

80MB - Timeout

70MB - Timeout

At this point I trudge my way through the snow at midnight to utilize the faster tinterweb at the office... all 1.5Mbit upload.

60MB - Timeout

49MB - Timeout

35MB - Timeout

25MB - Timeout

19MB - Timeout

15.3MB - Success

After re-compressing the video eight or nine times, I came through with success, my application submitted, and all before 2am.

Apparently there is a backlog of submissions for them to get through, so it could be a week before it appears. I'll keep you posted. No rest for the committed though, I have a "making of" video to cut together and some prints to get made!

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  1. Ian Mantgani

    Tue 24th Feb 2009 @  4:00 PM

    Hah! I had to get mine to under 10mb, and it still took all day to get through.

    Good luck, James! Great video, great site; I'll be putting some kind words about it on my own (far inferior) blog this afternoon.

    All the best, -ian- http://flymetotheparadise.blogspot.com