LET’S GO
I'm not the first person to end up in advertising while trying to avoid math. However, I was the only person standing in an artichoke field in Oxnard with a clipboard and a spreadsheet watching a minivan do hot laps past a sign.
I take pretty detailed notes on set, which is important when you know you've got to cut together 27 car commercials over the next few weeks. I note my favorites then talk with the script supervisor, 'Scripty,' to make sure the timing is going to work.
It really doesn't sound very creative because it's so scientific. But you need an accurate tape measure to make a piece of furniture — probably some drawings and an idea of what the hell you're trying to make. So it's kind of like that.
If you get to the bottom — you shouldn't — don't watch that many car commercials in a row.