Hollywood Professionals Impacting Lives Through Mentoring – Breaking the cycle of incarceration & addiction
Our semester is going very well so far. Gary has just finished his “The Business of Television” class.
Stan, Luke and Branden are heavily into the their editing classes.
Next week we start camera taught my director of photographer Ryan. The guys always love his class.
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For the last (5) weeks, Derrick, our guest writing instructors, has been working with our students to teach them story and structure as he’s helped them to write their scripts for a 10 minute short film. It’s not easy learning the screenplay format, but Derrick is an excellent, passionate teacher who has taught them these skills. I think he has also given some of our students a new passion for writing that they did not have before.
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.
