Busy Bee

The last week has been a regular whirlwind of activity.

Wednesday, Derek and I went to check out a haunted house in Pontiac to talk to the owner about shooting a new intro for them. It will be a short film shown to the customers as they enter to give them the back story of the house.

This haunt is particularly sweet in that it has several branching points where you could collect up to 3 special coins if you made the correct choices along your journey. When you arrive at the final door you then have up to three chances, depending on how many coins your group collected, to open a secret chamber and meet the wizard. If you do make it into the secret room, you also get double your money back.

This is one of the largest haunted houses I've been through as it fills an old grocery store. They were working on adding new rooms and features for a Haunted House convention coming in May where their house will be featured. Our work is part of that update as the video they currently have isn't the greatest.

Thursday found me in Frankenmuth to shoot video of journalist and author Anastasia Goodtein as she spoke to the Michigan Library Association. She was promoting her new book “Totally wired: What teens and tweens are really doing on the internet".

Saturday night Derek and I were at The Ritz Rocks in Warren to shoot video of Dedura for an upcoming video for his feature film "broken". Dendura's lead singer Aziza is one of the stars of "broken". We had a tv playing the trailer for the film and sold some tickets to the premiere.

Also last week I received a call from someone that got my name from Specs Howard for a video shoot. I met with them this week, and my first gig is set for tomorrow. It's a local video production company, and most of the shoots look like they will be church services to be shown on cable tv. This first shoot however is going to be for an author that wrote a book about how you could write your own books based on your life experiences. For this first shoot I will be one of two camera people, and it's an afternoon shoot so that's pretty nice. Hopefully this will become a regular gig.

Right now I'm fighting off a cold or something, so hopefully I won't be coughing tomorrow during the shoot. That would royally suck.

Keep your fingers crossed.