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Issue #189 – Apprentices in Action

Weekly Newsletter

by L. Swift and Jeff McQ

 
Apprentices in Action
 

A Day in the Life of Our Students

   Recording Connection student Justin Hardman (Denver, CO) is surprised at how fast things are progressing for him during his time in the program: “I interviewed for an internship position at Colorado Sound Studios where I’m studying with Steve Avedis [and got it]…It’s been super busy but I’m loving every minute of it.  The other week I worked 44 hours in the studio sitting in and doing some vocal recording and comping on an album recording for a band that flew in from Chicago. I also got to go help doing a live recording of the Trailer Park Boys at Red Rocks in Morrison, CO.  I also figured out how to set up a comms system for the AXS TV camera crew.  The Red Rocks day alone was a 16 hour day but I never thought I could have that much fun working a 16 hour day…   Everything has been more than I could ever hope for from my experience doing Recording Connection.  I’m doing things that I thought would take years to get to do and I’ve only been in this program for a little over 4 months. You definitely have to work hard and go after what you want, but this program has given me a pathway to the career I have always wanted.”  
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Daniel Lir, Katz Carter and Bayou Bennett

Daniel Lir, Katz Carter and Bayou Bennett

Already an experienced actor, screenwriter, and videographer, Film Connection scholarship recipient Katz Carter (Los Angeles, CA) customized his apprenticeship to focus on developing a stellar, industry-standard pitch package to take to producers, all with the expert help of mentors Bayou Bennett and Daniel Lir of The Dream Team. In a recent interview we asked Katz to give us the lowdown on what’s in his pitch package: “What’s in it basically is the budget in detail, and I have contracts from SAG, locations where we’re shooting at, administrative things like that. And I have the cast list and my actors and their bios, a breakdown of the script, and like a character breakdown as well. I have story structure, I have plot points, a summary, all of that, and the whole package looks very artsy, I should say. That’s the most important part is that when you go through it, it looks really entertaining because it’s all themed with the story. And it has some colors, has some pictures, has an idea of the concept of the look that I want, because I’m taking it from Alfred Hitchcock. So I have like Alfred Hitchcock-esque pictures throughout.   [Daniel and Bayou] are really fun to work with. They explain things and break it down with examples, and they make it really easy to understand and to get the concept. And of course, you have to put the work in yourself. They can give you the tools, and it’s up to me to use the tools or not.”  
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