Uncover the Mysterious Power of the Ladybug Effect with Greg Porper – SYS Podcast Episode 535 Exclusive!
So, a quick few words about what I’ve been working on over the last month. I am continuing along in pre-production on my micro budget rom-com. Just to recap, I have my small crew assembled. We’ll be figuring out the technical stuff, the cameras, the lightings, the grip package over this next few months. So that still needs to be done, but we’re definitely getting that in place. I’ve just about got all my locations figured out. The one last location I need is actually a community theater, which you’d think would be easy in LA, but so far I haven’t been able to find a theater that will even return my phone calls or emails. I’ve only reached out to three so far, so I’ve definitely got a lot more community theaters in LA that I can hit up. But it’s odd to me that the community theater in LA, it’s certainly filled with actors who sort of understand the business, but they have no interest in an indie film shooting at their location. So, I’ve just got to keep looking for that, and eventually I hopefully will find a nice little community theater, hopefully around here or in the valley, but we’ll see. One thing I’ll definitely say, and actually Greg, who’s my guest today on this episode, he shot his movie in Texas, he talks about this briefly, but I’m definitely having a much better time finding people just by contacting them directly instead of going through some of these big location sites. I live outside of Los Angeles on the border of LA County and Ventura County. And when I approach folks outside of LA, or even specifically, I’m sort of closer to the San Fernando Valley, which if you’re not familiar with Los Angeles is sort of a, it’s a part of the city of Los Angeles, definitely part of the county of Los Angeles, but it’s sort of another part of Los Angeles that I’ve lived in since I’ve been in LA, and I live now out in Agora Hills, which is sort of right near the valley. But it’s the same thing, when you go into the valley, these people are pretty sophisticated when it comes to renting their locations. And they’re just, they’re not excited about it, and it’s just not that interesting to them. So, it just becomes much more transactional about the money and that sort of stuff. But I’m finding just even up here in Agora Hills, as I said, which is sort of closer to the Ventura County line, it’s outside of the city of LA, but it’s still in the county of LA. And then as I said, right up against the Ventura County line. But these folks seem to be enough removed from Los Angeles that they seem excited to be involved in a film. So again, I’ve got all my locations, except for the theater, so that’s good. I’m also getting the schedule, pretty well locked in as well. It looks like we’re going to be shooting from October 27th through November 15th. I’ve had a number of people who listen to this podcast reach out to me who want to help. And you know, I could use all the help I can get on this. If you’re in Los Angeles, or if you want to just take a trip to LA, I mean, if you want to be a screenwriter and you listen to this podcast and you’ve never been to LA, you know, perhaps this is a great time to just plan a trip out here. You could spend a couple of days being an extra on my film and then just explore LA and kind of get to know LA. I thought it just might be a cool way to bring the SYS community together.
