mmagbee

So I have been working at a local production company here in Baton Rouge, making commercials, for the about six months now. I am really enjoying it and it has only started to sink in recently (thanks to a couple of friends pointing this out) that I am actually working in a field that I have always wanted to be a part of - at least on the fringes of it (I have always wanted to be a filmmaker - but working on commercials is a good way to start out). I have made several good connections (one of our clients runs a local PR firm with Steven Soderbergh's longtime producer and one of the free-lance grips we often use has known Soderbergh since he was in high school and has either acted in or worked on or done both, on nearly all of Soderbergh's films [ in fact I asked him recently if he was going to do any work on Ocean's 13 which just started shooting a couple of weeks ago and he said he probably wasn't because he just got a lead role in a movie that is going to be shooting up in South Carolina. Actually I shot his audition footage for that role which not only he really liked but apparently the casting director and the filmmaker liked it as well seeing that they gave him the part]. So needless to say, they are both very good connections and have expressed interest in helping me out) as well as just meeting people who would be more than willing to help me out if I were to start working on a project. That's a helluva lot more than I can say for the lousy, useless fucks I knew in college who thought that they were hot-shit because they did PA work on Dracula 2000 or some such horse-shit like that.
Anyway, I was supposed to end up being the lead in a commercial that is going to be shot in the studio on monday because my boss saw some test footage we had shot that I was the stand-in for, and liked my over-all presence (for some reason when I get in front of a lens I can let loose and act like a complete imbecile but otherwise I think I come across as a boring do-nothing with a stick up my ass). But the firm wanted to go with one of the actors that an agency sent over. Ultimately I don't really mind. I really don't like looking at myself on screen and one of my jobs is making dubs of our commercials to send out to the local television stations, so I would wind up having to watch myself over and over. Egad! And I'm sure another opportunity will arise for me to step in front of the camera. So for now I will enjoy working behind the lens which is where I feel most comfortable.
That's it for now.