Interview Day updates

Just confirmed all of my interviews for Saturday. WOW!!! Its going to be along day.  My first interview begins at 9am and they go straight through until after 8PM.


Today i got a phone call from Eric, the manager of the Silver Reef Museum, he gave the me number of a lady who played Mrs. Grams in a ghosts from the past exhibit they put on in Silver Reef.  She is very knowledgeable about Mrs. Grams the influence she carried in this town.  She has agreed to interview with me on Saturday.

We also got permission from Marc to film his presentation. Marc is a well known geologist who will be speaking at Silver Reef on Saturday. He is going to talk about the town and the geologic anomaly of silver in sandstone.  I am not sure how much of it will make it to the TV show, but it will be great to archive it for later usage.

I got the Music Blues

I am at a cross roads right now and I am not sure how to handle it.  I have very ambitious ideas of what i would like to do with the TV show. One things for sure, I am going to turn this project into a documentary. I would also like to submit to into some film festivals. 

The problem I foresee with this idea is the music i decide to use.  Under the license of Dixie State University, i can legally use almost any song i desire. However, once i show the film outside of the Collage I am no longer protected by the DSU umbrella. For that reason alone, i am tempted to produce an original score to circumvent this problem all together. 


I only have one question. How in the world do you go about creating an original score? 

Intervies are Scheduled

I am pleased to announce that we have all of our interviews scheduled!!!

This is not our green screen, but it looks very similar

We will be filming them on the Feb 22nd.  Its going to be a long day!!!!  I have scheduled back to back interviews in Studio B beginning at 9am and ending at 8pm. We are going to be filming on the green screen.  I am really excited about this. I have never really had a chance to work with the green screen before and we are donating all the footage to the Washington County Historical Society. Since it will be shot on a green screen, it can be used countless time by simply changing the background.

Cosmopolitan in Silver Reef

There will also be a geologist, Marc Deshowitz, speaking at the Cosmopolitan located at Silver Reef that morning.  My co producer Ashlee will be filming his speech and then filming an interview after. Here is a link from the spectrum about the event: http://www.thespectrum.com/article/20140212/NEWS01/302120011/Learn-about-geology-old-mining-area

Jerry Anderson

 We are also planning on her conducting an interview with Jerry Anderson, who lives in Silver Reef and is well known for is sculptures and artwork of Silver Reef. While she is there she will also be filming b-roll of Silver Reef, china town, The cemetery, The land scape, and the old mining equipment that is scattered about.

The Wells Fargo Stage Coach

I have an opportunity to possibly get the Wells Fargo Stage coach to use during one of our shoots. I am very excited about this. We have a lot of ideas on how we will utilize the footage.

We are hopping to use the stage coach, first and foremost, as part of the Charlie Parkhurst story. We would also like to get some footage of the coach being pulled through the desert by horses and driven by an actor dressed in costume similar to what a stage coach driver would have looked like in the late 1800's. 

Some other ideas we entertaining are using the coach as a prop when we talk about the Wells Fargo Building, and in the opening introduction of the TV show. If used in the introduction, we would have our narrator in the coach. The coach being pulled by horse. The coach would pull up in front of the wells fargo building and stop. The narrator would then get out of the coach to begin the introduction. 

Interview with Karen Kondazian, The author of "The Whip"

Lady Luck is shining on us!!! Karen Kondazian, author of The Whip, has agreed to film an interview in LA and send it to us for the TV Show.
   

Charlie Parkhurst and The Whip

CHARLIE PARKHURST 

The Story of Charlie Parkhurst, a very famous stage coach driver for Wells Fargo. This story quickly emerged as on of the signature stories for the show. During the Silver Reef tour we learned of a book about Charlie and then advised to contact the author for an interview.







The Book was called "The Whip" written by Karen Kondazian's.  This sounded simple enough, until we learned that Karen lived in the L.A. area. (Did i mention that our budget for this TV show is practically zero)  

A BIG thanks to Washington County Historical Society for all thier help

Today i was invited by Dick Kohler, to attended the Washington County Historical Society's monthly ‎  The society consists of people in the community who maintain historical sites for county and/or are local historian. During the meeting, i was able to speak with the committee members about the Silver Reef TV Project. They were very receptive of it and are willing to help out as much as possible.

Their website is: www.wchsmn.org/

I THINK I FOUND MY INTERVIEWEES!!! YEAH 

After the meeting, I was given then names of 10 people the society considered experts on the Folklore and History of Silver Reef.   I was also told about an interview Dixie State University filmed of a Archeologist Professor at Penn who has studied Silver Reef for over 30 year, and has performed numerous digs in Silver Reef.  That interview plus Karen's gives me 12 interviews I will have to choose from for our one hour show...

This was by far my biggest worry so far.  I was afraid i was not going to have enough variety in my interviewees.  I have watched historical documentary before where they only interview two or three experts. Then use multiple clips the same people... I didn't want this show to be like that.  I believe that variety will not only substantiate the folklore, but move the show along at a much faster pace. 

This month has been AWESOME: we were able to 

• get approval for the TV show, 
• lock down the topics, 
• create a list of potential interviewees 
• gain access to all pictures, papers, documents and oral interviews collected by the WCHS and affiliated resources.

Goal for February:  

1. Schedule and film all interviews 
2. begin using the interviews to piece together a working story line for the Show
3. Begin collecting

• Music
• Sound effects
• B-roll 
• VO material.