Driven

This weekend was a new page in the story of my on campus productions. Up till now I have merely been a part of other people’s productions, albeit often an integral part. As of Sunday, I have embarked on an endeavor which puts me in the producer’s seat. Of course, I’m sharing that seat with apartment mate Scott Reynolds, host, and co-producer. We are trying to do something a little different than anything that has been produced in the Pepperdine Studios for Malibu Local Television, and I believe that we’re going to do it. Scott, being an avid car guy –and by avid car guy I mean that he would chose automobile over woman each and every day of the week… give me the girl- wanted to do a car show, and I saw it as an opportunity to be a little more artistic than the current talk show/sketch comedy show line-up currently allows. So, Scott waved his magic car guy wand and a dealership on the Sunset Strip agreed to give us two Land Rover LR3s for four days this weekend to film our pilot. We parked them down by the fountain and filmed student interviews, and then took the cars on a little test drive to find out what they were made of.
I’m currently in production/post-production limbo while I work on editing the packages and wait for studio time to pull the cohesive elements together with an in studio segment or two. Hopefully I’ll be able to get at the very least some of the packages up for streaming in a not too distant future date. For now the plan is to finish post by Thanksgiving, that is in fact quite an ambitious goal…. But I’m an ambitious person.

I'm not a big fan of staging pictures like this, but when someone takes your camera and tries to "help" what are you gonna do?