Hey Everyone, I got to scout out 2 Great Locations today and they were way more than I could have imagined. I only collected a handful of HighLights from the 4 hours of roaming around the Salvage Yards. The Opportunity, the opportunity was everywhere....literally, sporadic ideas left and right it was pretty astonishing. It feels good to be back to work on something, putting my abilities to work and cohesion with other people who also want to accomplish the same goals because they believe in the idea and enjoy the final product as much as myself. The Process is what makes it fun though; yes, the stress, the late nights, changing plans, weather, planning, opportunity, planning (Pre-Production at its finest) and then finally Production (the day of reckoning)!!!
I'm Excited to begin figuring out what shots I want to shoot and at which location; we figured that we may as well utilize both locations, hopefully that will be a possibility. It'll take some concise planning, considering their distance apart and every other condition imaginable. I'm sure we can handle it though.
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Hey, so its been a sort of an on and off task calling around within a 30 mile radius to all the local Auto-Junk Yard & Salvage Lots looking for:
1. Someone to pick up the damn phone
2. Listen to my nearly scripted pitch and
3. Give me a Yay, Nay or call me back.
This process alone has taken a few days to secure 2.5 Locations and I use .5 in lieu of a solid 3 because the last place I contacted doesn't seem to care if I'm there or not....currently. So long as I don't get in the way of their paying clients. I guess I'll see tomorrow when I actually talk to them in person about what I seek to achieve. And this very factor is why I sought to have options; not just hope and pray for one place to follow up with me. I've got to be realistic when it comes to location scouting. Some folks are cool with it, some don't care so long as you don't make them look bad and some sure as hell don't want a camera pointed at their business let alone walking around with one.
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Hello, my name is Stephen Patek and having recently graduated from EKU (Richmond, KY) with a Bachelor in Broadcast & Electronic Media; there was originally that sort of uncertain feeling about finally merging from full time student as a position in the academic sense to full time (insert position) in my field. I have creative angst and if I'm not creating something (a story, a picture, a video of any sort, etc.) I'm bored out of my skull. Thus I decided to push forward with a skit idea I developed back in October; of course its part of a larger concept, but starting somewhere is better than bouncing around and not settling on an idea to pursue. I started taking the steps necessary for this small skit; the production book (99.9% of all productions - TV, Movies, Video Games, you name it- have a production book) is part way done and if I can get at least 2 locations secured to scout out, I'll be happy to begin production itself in a couple weeks.
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