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Issue #135 – Apprentices in Action

Weekly Newsletter

by L. Swift and Jeff McQ

 
Apprentices in Action
  

A Day in the Life of Our Students

   Noah Cook Sometimes (many times) improvisation is the name of the game. Film Connection apprentice Noah Cook (Dallas, TX) found this out first hand on a recent shoot. “We were recording the second episode of a web series we are working on, and we didn’t have the boom pole for our sound recorder. The cable we had to go from our shotgun mic to the recorder was crazy short, so Josyln (a fellow student) was right behind me, which made it almost impossible to pan the camera. We cut, and walked out of those doors, to figure out what we needed to do to make it work. I grabbed the mic, and wedged it up, above the camera, and snatched the recorder out of her hand, opened the door with my foot and got into position.”   
David Nance

David Nance

Film Connection student David Nance (Seattle, WA) recently came to L.A. to attend Hollyshorts where he received some positive feedback on his fledgling project! “Part of the festival was a short film conference, and I learned quite a bit on what it takes to submit a short to a festival, and it still is a major launching platform for new filmmakers…But the highlight was the first reading of my screenplay! It was only 15 pages, but it was the first set-up sequence featuring all the major characters, so it let me know if I was moving in the right direction with this…I was ready to receive the most brutal criticism, but they loved it! At the end, I was exchanging information with the actors as casting potentials. So we’ll see and I might be back soon to hold auditions! Many things are taking shape, so more to follow.”   
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