Lightning Bear Productions

Nice to be around fellow filmmakers...
For awhile now I have found a number of freelance jobs just by checking posts on Craigslist for production work and experience in the Dallas, Fort Worth area. It hasn't made me rich but it's helped pay a few bills. The experience I've gotten has definitely paid off. I recently attended a business seminar that they had for RTVF students at the University of North Texas for advice on updating my resume and my real. After a few seminars I became aquainted with Michael Brown of Lightning Bear studios (which is based out of Denton, TX). Him and I spoke briefly and he asked me to help him shoot a pilot for a TV program he was trying to develop. The following weekend I was put to work, swinging a boom and adjusting audio levels. Despite the rain and small crew, we were able to put together a decent pilot episode. Our DP, Kevin Keller had an awesome steadicam that we put to good use during this production. Later this summer I scored a job being the Assistant Director on a short film that will be shot in the DFW area and Kevin is slated to be our DP as well. Small world I guess. Here's some photo's from the ReInvented TV pilot shoot...

Following this production I was asked to help on a few other productions that Lightning Bear studio's would be working on in the next few months. Namely they are working on shooting a series of shows that are going to be made at the Pour House in Denton titled Beer, Babes and Movies. This show revolves around a group of guys giving their ten cents on films that are out in theaters right now. It will be a live show and will air on all of the screens that blanket the walls of the Pour House. It should be pretty cool. Also, over the past few weeks I've been in and out of their studio helping a graduate student edit her film for one of her classes. With a really short dealine I've had to pull all nighter's with the graduate student to finish her project on time. Her original edit of the film was terrible and had to be completely scraped. I had to start over from square one and attempt to create a story out of nothing. I still can't believe how well it came out in the end and how grueling an editing project this was. All together I was able to finish this film in a little under 20 hours, starting from scratch and working with out breaks for 3 nights all together. The graduate student took final credit for the edit and the film, although I did alot of the grunt work along with Micheal. All and all I'm proud of the way it turned out, hope you enjoy it.

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