Hollywood Professionals Impacting Lives Through Mentoring – Breaking the cycle of incarceration & addiction
Semester #11 is over. We had a great group of students. We held our graduation (2) weeks ago, with (18) graduates. Congratulations to all of our grads!! Thanks for all your hard work. We’ll be down until we start Semester #12.
As we begin 2013, we are ending our 11th Semester. It’s been a good semester with lots of enthusiasm. We’re ending with some exciting projects. The end of semester editing projects are looking great. This semester our guys were creating and editing some commericals for several different MERIT programs. We are excited to see all (5) teams “Finals”. We will also be shooting our end of semester video project where our students run the cameras, set up the lights, built the set… all of it. Thank you to everyone for all your support, especially the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
This last Tuesday night, instead of our normal weekly Alumni Meeting, we all met at the In & Out Burgers in Santa Clarita for our 2nd annual Angel Tree gift delivery.
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Everyone at HOLLYWOOD IMPACT STUDIOS wants to wish you and your families a very Merry Christmas. Thank you for all your support.
We want to wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving from everyone in the Hollywood Impact Studios Family.
We’re back in barracks 42 at South Facility, Pitchess Detention Center, starting our 11th Semester. We did our interviews and a week later started teaching our 29 new student/inmates. It seems like this will be a terrific class.
Last month, Cyndi and I had an opportunity to attend the Emmy Awards. This year, 20th Century Fox Television had a record number of nominees, many of them in the post production area of editing, sound, music and visual effects. We thought it was important to go and show support for the winners… and those that didn’t quite make it.
I’d like to say that the Emmy I’m holding was for best Studio Post Production Executive, but it was not. My friend and colleague, Jordan Goldman, let me hold his Emmy for Best Editing on our hit series HOMELAND. (Which also won Best Drama Series). Congratulations to all of our 20th Century Fox Television Emmy winners!
We ended our 10th semester with our normal “Final Shoot”. During this final production the students and instructors trade places… our students run the cameras, lights and sound while the instructors guide them.
This shoot was a little different, this time, the students wrote commercials for several of the Sheriff’s M.E.R.I.T programs (http://lasdshb.wordpress.com/2007/02/21/lasd-merit-program-graduation/) and we filmed them. Next semester they will edit them for broadcast on LASD TV.
During the commercial for the music program, for fun, Cyndi jumped onto the drum set.
Also, Chick-fil-A donated food to the shoot again. Thank you so much. Our guys loved the food and it really helped us keep our budget down. Your continued support means a lot to us.
Last month several of our guys were blessed to work on a commercial for the web hosting company LUNARPAGES. The company was extremely supportive, and we appreciate this support. Our instructor, Branden Morris, was the director. Our alumni worked as crew and as background artists.
Branden monitors the what’s being shot…
