Great People I Met Yesterday and the Night Before
I started the day by looking at a “live” event production truck. A great deal, but it’s mostly standard definition equipment. I’m still considering it but I have to justify the costs. Maybe someone will partner up with me.
Next, I met up with a twitter contact who was in town from Baltimore, http://stratatekstudios.com. I met with Charlie Anderson. He was in L.A. for a couple reasons, a shoot for Under Armour and a premiere of a feature he shot. We exchanged stories or how we got into what we’re doing and where we want to end up. Check out his work and hire him if you need a DP or RED tech.
Next I was off to Allied Post Audio in Santa Monica for their monthly LAPPG meeting. Woody there runs a top notch shop and has an awesome post production meeting. It’s by RSVP and limited seating, so you have to be quick or you won’t get a spot.
I arrived early to volunteer and help setup for the event. Jesse, an intern there, who is going into USC’s Directors Master Program, (now there’s someone you should get to know, was there and he explained what he was up to. It was nice to get a young perspective of the industry. Quite refreshing. Also there were Candice and Wendy. All great people.
Soon Wes Plate, founder of Automatic Duck arrived and I explained that I had so many of his keychains that I felt obligated to follow him on Twitter.com. He said to check out the video on the site about how they’re made. It’s here: http//www.automaticduck.com/keychains/ , well it’s supposed to be 
Wes gave a great presentation on all their products. I learned a lot about Avid, FCP and AE workflows.
Before he went on, Aaron McNally from Moviola presented and I learned a LOT about compression and video capture of cameras. Really wish I would have recorded that presentation. It was that good.
Before the presentations and during the breaks and after the meeting I meet the following great people:
Von Thomas, of Digital Tech NYC/LA a new Red One owner and renter of such.
Kent Luck, independent editor
Jay Miracle, editor of Hearts of Darkness documentary — BTW, Jay is looking for a great titler for a non-profit gig, an hours work. Let me know if you’re interested….
Heather Konkoli, Producer of TV Guide Channel’s InFANity show.
and David Buller, a promo editor for Fox TV.
Tuesday night I met Marty over at Brins & Sawyer. She’s great too. I highly recommend their store! Service is awesome.
