On Monday Feb 2, 2015, I received the opportunity of a life time. But before I get into that, I'm making this blog highlighting that media production filled day. At 2 pm i rejoined Stockton Student Television (SSTV) in helping film their weekly Channel 14 news program. Now this isn't your typical news station. While some reports are factual and national news, other programs on it, like Stocktainment are short skits of entertaining news. Some skits are comical while others dark and serious. The SSTV channel 14 news offers a wide variety of skits, news, improvisation, and parody. Since it was my first week back after a year and a half since my SSTV internship and this semester there are 7 interns, I was given a supervisor esc role in he control room. Here is a link to the final production of Season 5 episode 1 of SSTV's weekly news.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVgJbgvyJfE
The show is filmed every Monday from around 2-4 pm in the SSTV studio in Lower E-Wing.
Now onto the fun stuff. Later that day, along with several others from SSTV, we had the awesome opportunity of working on the set of a film called Grey Matter based on the short story by Stephen King and is being produced by King HIMSELF!!. Alumni Bobby McGruther is directing and leading this film adaptation. Feb 2nd started principle photography of the film with several more dates of production in the near future. This was my first ever production and I am very grateful it was on the set of a Stephen King film. While on set my main job was the boom microphone technician. I also had a few smaller jobs like setting up lighting, equipment and prop handling, and making sure certain objects were not in plain sight of the camera like scripts or wires. All in all this was a fantastic experience and I cannot wait to join the other production dates. Everyone on the set was really great to work with, had some funny moments off camera due to the nature of some scenes (don't worry i wont put up spoilers), and gained a lot of experience. Below are some photos from the shoot.
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| Ready Set Action! |
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| My Friend Tia and I |
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Director Bobby McGruther peparing
the Panasonic HMC 150 |
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| Tia putting on the soft box |
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| BOOM! |
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| Cast going over things with Bobby |
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| Crew getting things ready |
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| Tia playing with the Clapper |
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| Scene Rehersal |
Jeff Layton Over and Out.
looks like fantastic experience. Is this tech blog 2? if so....add that in the title ? :)
ReplyDeleteno this is actually a separate blog for another class lol
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