Internship

First day of work: Mon, May 19th: 10AM-4PM
Input data into computer, met Angela and Bonnie.

Tues, May 20th: 10AM-12:30 PM
Just me and Bonnie, read script to Easy Money, took her to pick up her car.

Wed, May 21st: 10AM- 2:15 PM
Input contacts into database, put together iDVD audition for Tania Raymonde for The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Th, May 22nd: 10AM-5:15 PM
Have duplicate keys made, Large Decaf Iced Soy Latte for Geralyn, Call to confirm numbers for pilot quotes at studios while updating the contacts list. Print out headshots and resume's for next day's auditions. Print out past 2 years pilots quotes. Met Gayle.

Fri, May 23rd: 10AM-1:15PM
Continue printing out pilot quotes for past two years, Mark and I then compiled them all alphabetically into a binder for convenience and ease of use.

Mon, May 26th: Memorial Day

Wed, May 28th: 10AM-6PM
Updated more contacts for database, that's pretty much it.
6PM-12PM
Got a call from Drew saying he and Mark were in line to get in to the Don't Mess With The Zohan premiere, and they told me they had one extra ticket, so I flew over to the apartment to change and bolted to the Chinese Theater to see the film. We all got free tickets to go to the movie, where Mark and I both ended up having to sit in the very front row. It looked pretty crazy from that angle. After the film, we all got to meet and shake hands w/ Adam Sandler and Kevin James while also seeing plenty of other "famous" actors...it was a pretty good time.

Fri, May 30th: 10AM-6PM
Updated all the info on the contact sheets for the Sarah Connor Chronicles and Prince of Motor City by calling all the agencies and getting their info if we didn't already have it.

Sat, May 31st: 12:30AM-1:30AM
Drew and myself were sitting in the apartment as we watched Ian play Zelda. Skip was outside on the phone while Ian was in his room on the computer. Drew and I saw out of the corner of our eyes a rather large black shadow scatter under our chairs. We investigated, while Ian stopped playing the game, and couldn't see anything. We kicked the printer, and all of a sudden something scampers out from behind it and leaps out in front of us, flying by so fast we can't make it out and disappears down the hall. It turns out to be hiding in my bathroom...it freaks everybody out when it appears, but I see that it's a mouse...it disappears on us for a while, and we have no clue where it could have gone after searching and emptying the whole bathroom. But I get down under the sink and can hear it behind the wall. Drew figures out there is a crack underneath the paneling, so I grab some febreeze to flush it out, and as soon as I shoot it in the crack the mouse comes flying out, hopping over my hand and running 3 dizzying circles around the trash can...I think it was hit by the spray and became disoriented...but it ran to our closet, to Mark and Skips room, back to our room, back to our closet, hid in Ian's clothes, behind my boxes, and so on until we finally chased it back into the main room behind the "entertainment center". Our ragtag crew of 5 guys holding pots and pans, shoes, and chairs to jump on in fear had finally cornered it. Due to the inability to capture the mouse beforehand, I decided to forego the pot I was using and had them flush the mouse out. I saw it sprint out and I caught it with my barehand, but it clawed it's way out before I realized what it was doing. It fell out and ran outside onto our porch, where we locked it off until I once again grabbed the pot and captured it. I secured it and took it to the court yard and released it....it didn't look like your typical mouse. It looked like one of those Australian Kangaroo mice...I wonder if some poor kid in the apartment complex is pining the loss of his pet mouse....oh well...it was a fun night.

Mon, June 2nd: 10-6:45
Filled out more agents contact lists, as well as the manager's contact lists. Started answering phones, and spent most of the day building a desk that was purchased.

Wed, June 4th: 10-6
Created and organized a binder for sides, helped reorganize the office slightly to make more room for Jamie who is supposed to start working soon, scanned and uploaded a bunch of deal memos and cast lists for the Sarah Connor Chronicles, put together some lights for the audition room, and filmed and took notes in the auditions for the Prince of Motor City with Gayle.

Fri, June 6th: 12-4
Got some stuff together for auditions, headed over to MRC and filmed the auditions for the lead Morgan for the show Easy Money. A few recognizable actors auditioned, and I met the two lead writers and producers for the show.

Mon, June 9th: 10-2
Worked on the tripod to attempt to fix and level it, went with Bonnie to the new office space that will be the production office for Easy Money starting tomorrow, been answering phones and checking the filmed auditions on Castit.

Tues, June 10th: 10-4:30
Went back to the Los Angeles Center Studios for auditions, been getting to know the exec producers/writers, as well as the rest of the production staff and seeing how things work in pre-production. Main duty is filming the auditions and filling out the notes sheet for the CastIt upload.

Wed, June 11th: 10-5:45
Same thing as yesterday, except we got back from the studios in time for me to answer phones back at the office and film auditions for Sarah Connor at our office.

Thurs, June 12th: 10-6
Over at the studio til about 3 where we filmed and watched some submitted auditions. Got back to the office when Bonnie realized she left one of the dvd auditions at the studio, which she needed to upload for the network execs asap, so I went back to the studio (which is closer to my apt), grabbed the dvd, went back to my apt and ripped the audition and uploaded it onto CastIt...

Mon, June 16th: 10-4:30
Met up with Bonnie over at ZP, then headed to the production office for more auditions. Spent most of the day doing that, ran a bit later than expected as we watched auditions that were sent in from NY as well. Was able to meet a few people from shows I really like, such as Mary Ellis from It's Always Sunny, which they are apparently shooting around the area for the 4th season. Got back around 4:30 and left shortly after for the Get Smart premiere.

Tues, June 17th: 10:30-2
Met at the production office, handled more auditions, saw more people I recognized, etc. Finished on time today, went straight back to the apt so I could go to the deal or no deal auditions.

Wed, June 18th: 10-7:30
Met at ZP, headed over to LACS, did more auditions during the morning session, and I was able to meet an actress who appeared on LOST, Marsha Thomasson, who was very very cool. During the afternoon session we began some informal tests, between the final two picks for the lead, Morgan, as well as the Brandy character.

Thurs, June 19th: 10:30-1
Met at LACS, found out the the deals had been offered for two of the parts, one of them closed with the other certain to close in the next day. Both the actors were ecstatic at the information, so now I can easily say that I was there since the beginning of auditions to the choosing of the actors in a television show and that I have met them, BAM. After testing some more girls for the part of Brandy, I packed up and left. No more trips to the studio for a while as Bonnie is going to Israel for a wedding and Andy and Diane (the exec producers) are headed to Albuquerque for a few days for the show to get info and whatnot on production, as that will be where the show is shot.

June 20th-July 6th:
I know I've fallen behind on this update for the past two weeks, but due to a mixture of being incredibly busy and having trouble accessing the site, here's a basic rundown...worked nearly everyday for the past two weeks other than July 4th, working at the office which was building up a crazy workload and filming auditions for "White Collar" and "Prince of Motor City" and answering nonstop phone calls and the like. Last week, I spent nearly every day at the LACS since Bonnie and the execs got back from out of town as we finished auditioning and casting the last few roles for "Easy Money."

July 7th: 10am-6pm
Answering phones and filming auditions for "White Collar", all sorts of paperwork and the like. Accidentally scraped the exec producers car...that was fun. That's about it. Jeff Hephner and Marsha Thomason came in for the read to film her to present to the execs, talked to Jeff and wished him luck on his work in Albaquerque. Good guy, gonna make a good lead. That's about it for today.

July 9th: 10-6
Same old song and dance, answering phones, printing and faxing all different things, and answer more phones. Also started working on the mangers list.

July 11th: 2-6
Working on this managers list. A lot of names to cover, taking up a lot of time. Phones and managers list.

July 14th: 10-1
Felt kind of sick today so I left early, just worked on the managers list all morning, but I couldn't really focus on it, everything kept going out of focus, so I left. That's about it.

July 16th: 10-5
More managers lists, printing and organizing headshots and resumes for the White Collar sessions. Left a little early to go check out our new apartment, besides, this managers list is going nowhere. Still have a lot of names to cover.

July 18th: 10-2
Still working on this managers list, hopefully we can have it done before next week ends. Been answering a lot of phone calls, and it's nice to actually know what you're talking about with the ability to answer questions. Not much else is going on, though I realize now I should not go to a midnight showing of a 2 1/2 hour film (even if it is The Dark Knight!!!!!!!) if you have to be at work in the morning. Oh well, live and learn.

So graduation is upon us...we've already lost access to the editing lab and I will probably never see that room again for the rest of my days. I'll briefly recount the events of the student screenings this past Tuesday...let me just say, after viewing it on the big screen, and more importantly, hearing it, I have decided that I am against sending the film out to any festivals as it exists right now. There is still plenty of more work to be done, and I don't want our names tainted by the lack of care and effort this "final product" gives off when it is really just an incomplete work that we can definitely do more with. I have realized that Devin should not have worked on this project unless we were both present, working from one hard drive together. It may have taken more time this way, but everything that we separated in this version would have fit together much better had we kept everything together. I now know this for the future, and I am glad things happened this way. It was still a positive experience, and I may not have learned this valuable lesson otherwise. Hopefully I will get a chance to work on this some more one day...and hopefully this is not the last time I will have access or the ability to edit...

After the fact...

Even though we are finished with the film, I figured I would update with our DVD production attempts...after many hours of failing yesterday between conversion and compression rate issues along with aspect ratio presentations, we called it a day and decided we'd try again today. Professor Kreul came in to give us a crash course in DVD Studio Pro, and we are immensely thankful for it. We have all the features we wanted from our iDVD project on this version, and DVD Studio Pro is pretty awesome to use when you (kind of) know what you're doing. We've tested the final result and are happy with the outcome, and we are currently making many copies for cast and crew. And they are region 0 copies which we can submit to the Feel Good Film Festival which I heard back from, and they're website was mistaken...student films of any length are being excepted. Hopefully, other than the screening tomorrow, we are done with this film......hopefully...