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We talk about what it takes to get “that big break.” What does that mean? And who's been doing a lot of lording? And does your break need Star Trek?
- !! Semi-spoiler alerts for… Mad Men and General Hospital! Whaaa? !!
- Old Business
- Sean drops a name he dropped before: Dave Smith, professor at Ball State, who helped Sean get his break
- What it means to break into Hollywood
- Dave Letterman gives Sean a scholarship
- More name dropping: Jeff Parise
- What is the “big break?”
- at 15:00 — hardware goes haywire! Sorry about that…
- We mix metaphors like a DJ mixes language tapes
- Grandpa’s advice on expecting and using downtime
- An aside about shifts in casting bias
- Adaptation by Spike Jones. A great movie. A must see.
- How PJ got his job at Foundation Imaging
- SciFi Channel (now SyFy, of course) Exposure
- Efram's entry
- 405, the short
- Bruce Brannit
- 2G Digital Post
- SnP work
- Me, Myself & Irene
- This is what happens when you find a stranger in the alps
- Project Greenlight, Season 2
- Efram and Kyle's entry video
- And their Project Greenlight challenge video
- And the new series, on HBO
- Ray Wise
- And some short films Efram made, back in the day:
- Pennyweight, the short film
- They Came To Attack Us, another short film
- Alias, The Lost Episode
- 405, the short
- Sean's internship with Edgar Sherick
- The takeaway: If you wanna make movies or VFX, you gotta make movies or make VFX!
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