Since I was coming up to San Fran, I managed to coordinate a potluck dinner gathering with some close and dear friends. After much drinking and merryment, some one started playing videos on youtube. This was prob one of my favorites, it is the literal song translation to the classic video Take on Me by Ah Ha.
Check out this compelling piece of entertainment.
Take On Me: Literal Video Translation
Greg Phelan's Keep Dreaming
***In progress, not done*****
So Late one night in August after work I went to a bar for some drinks with 2 close friends and we got talking about production projects happening with around town with friends, I was quite buzzed and ranting on about a project I wasn't involved in. As well as I needed to get more involved and find some production work.
Around the same time I received an email from an friend of mine. I didn't know him well at the time, but I worked with him a bunch of times and he was just a really nice guy with healthy and positive energy.
Greg was finally shooting a Pilot Presentation called Keep Dreaming an idea he came up with about a year prior and he was looking for some help on the project. So I contacted Greg and told him about my production background and that I was interested in working on the project.
I sent off my resume, went and partied in the dessert for a week, and then came back home and got the job. I was hired on as the production Designer. Over the course of 2 weeks we had 4 production meetings. Which let everyone get to know each other. As well as prep, I believe that is the most important element of production in my opinion.
For the three days of Shooting, production was calm and cool, and everyone busted their ass. The days went smoothly and it was a fantastic shoot. It's all about the prep work. So let me explain what the production designer does, he comes up with the ideas of how the sets/locations are going to look and works with production to come up with what's fitting and what can be done. I found out what props and set dressing I needed, and set off with a small amount of cash, and got materials from friends.
I'm proud of my work on this project and couldn't of done it without the help of Meridith Myers and Ashley Beverage. This was the best crew I've ever worked with. Some truly talented and creative people. I also made a couple of good friends on this project.
Here is a couple pictures from the set.
*Keep Dreaming is currently in post-production and estimated to be done sometime in November.
The footprint.
I am currently in a state of flux, my life has been a crazy roller coaster the past couple of months.
My dilemma, do I write about it? Cause, once you send something to the net Google swallows it whole, absorbs it and that information will be kept forever. Often even if this information is deleted it can be tracked down through the deadly Google Cache, I can only imagine that this will get worse as time goes on.
So do I write about my life and post it on the net? How personal do I want to make those posts?
I guess time will tell.
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