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Reality TV is Trying to Crush My Soul
I’ve known what I’ve wanted to do with my life since I was fifteen years old. I want to make movies. Good movies. Real movies, like L’avventura or Even Dwarves Started Small. When I visited LA after college, my father put me in touch with a colleague’s son: “Bob Peterson’s son works in film. Have [...]
Whatever kid, I’m starving (what to order at Subway)
You know what happens next. As soon as your gaze settles on the burrito section of the Baja Fresh menu, the cast erupts in some huge story you’ve been waiting for, the director nearly shatters your eardrum yelling at you to frame up, and you look over at the P.A. and say, “ Shit dude, gotta go, order me something, anything…I’m starving.”
Rants & Raves
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So you think you’re a shooter
Over the last five years or so a new position has opened up on reality shows, the jr. shooter. Someone who has grown out of ACing and is ready to begin their career as a camera operator. In my opinion, it’s a position long over due but one that is under appreciated by both the production companies and the sometimes, the jr. shooter themselves.