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Paulo, a thirteen year old kid in obsessed with cars, gets his dream job working in his eccentric idol’s hot rod shop.

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“I don’t know if you know this, but West Hollywood is filled with gays and Russian people.” – Cab Driver from LAX

Long time coming… update!

Saturday, January 14th, 2012

Okay, so after finishing on Really Me season 2, I was fortunate to start freelancing on Grojband. In the meantime I’m happy to say I’ve optioned a pitch to Jeff and Jesse at Sudden Storm Entertainment. Be talking to them next week about developing the pitch doc more before we start shopping it around. On top of that, a buddy of mine and I have been asked to develop a kids’ series! Very exciting. Haven’t got the official offer yet, but it looks promising. Also I’ve had the opportunity of meeting on two great shows in the last month. Great people, great ideas and great shows. Fingers crossed I land on one of those since that’d be a hat trick!

Finally, I had the amazing opportunity to sit in a final mix session with David Kendall, Paula Hart and my old pal Scott Hartle. I was only there for a few hours, but really learned a lot about what to look for at that point in the post process. It’s really amazing what an ear and eye EPs develop for well, everything! Somehow, like a fly with a thousand eyes, they see little continuity stuff and hear ambient sound differences that a dog wouldn’t even pick up on. Thanks to them, now I know what to watch and listen for. And knowing is half the battle. Isn’t it, G.I. Joe? Go Joe!

Busy, busy, busy…

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

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Just finished three months on the second season of Family Channel’s hit show “Really Me.” I was fortunate to have my boss represent her and the room in all the production meetings as well as covering for her on the floor when she was unavailable. Both were great opportunities and I learned a lot about being a showrunner and how to work with production to make our room’s scripts come in on time and on budget and of course as we envisioned. Working on the floor with the directors and actors was a treat as well. Really helped me put my brain in producer mode, keeping an eye on continuity, making sure the performances reflected the mandate from the network and production company and of course that we got the jokes performed exactly how we wanted. The great part was our cast always surprised me with a different take on a joke and even found jokes where we didn’t expect them. I’m starting next week as a freelancer on yet another Fresh TV show, “Grojband.” Looking forward to playing with new characters and continuing to work with my pals at Fresh.