You did WHAT??

yeah thats right folks.. today was my first big GIG!! haha well it wasnt big and you can hardly call it a gig.. but oh well.

So my aunt's neighbor who know people who hire for these kinds of positions let me know that this company called "360 Pictures" was looking for someone to come in an help them move some furniture around. desks.. file cabinets.. that kind of thing... and since i have TONS of experience in that area (thank you miami YFC :-) ) i decided to give it a shot.

now the point was to meet people and gain contacts.. that seems to be how this world functions.. its ALL WHO YOU KNOW, and WHO WILL VOUCH FOR YOU! haha..

so i got to Beverly Hills (yes.. THE beverly hills) at 7:30am.. to a REALLY FREAKIN nice office building and went right on in. I met the other guy who i was hired to work with on this.. an out of work actor (there seems to be a few of those layin around here) named Heath Brown. Now before you all hit up IMDB.com trying to figure out who this guy is.. dont worry he's not on there. .haha Really talkative guy.. reminded me a little of Chris Rock..

Anyway Heath and i spent the day moving big heavy desks around and some file cabinets... really simple work.. took only 4 hours-ish... but again.. its all about the contacts.. so i got to meet some really nice people, and Heath gave me a verbal crash course in Production Assisting... that crash course is as follows....

- DONT ever admit you dont know what you're doing, or that your new.. just say "i can do that" to anything, even if you have no idea what they're talking about.
- PA work is a lot of sitting around, especially on larger budget films. on smaller budgets the job titles sort of blend together and you end up doing EVERYTHING!
- Office PAing and Set PAing are two different things and should both be given a shot to see the whole range of the BIZ (yes he even called it the BIZ.. i thought only myself and my sarcasm called it that...)
- Get to know your bosses names... everyone else.. who cares about them.. the people you need to know are the people who have the power to fire you HAHA!
- And most importantly... you will be YELLED at so get used to it.. HAHA.. now i thought that was awesome!

It was nice to hear from someone who has been around here for six year kinda just breaking down THE BIZ... i guess i just enjoy hearing what kind of knowledge people have accumulated over the years doing this kind of stuff.

The place i was working had made movies such as "Species" (yes all 4 of them), and "i know who killed me" the new Lindsey Lohan movie that tanked at the box office not that long ago. They have some other things in the works.. it was just cool to see the basics of how a production office was run.

OH STAR SIGHTING....

We were working in the back of the office and were just leaving when Paul the receptionist (think a white Lloyd from Entourage) said that we just missed ANDY GARCIA. he had just popped in because he had a meeting in a bit with this production company and we were in the back and totally missed him... so it was ALMOST a star sighting.

So on my way home, to make up for that lack of sighting, i decided to drive really slow through downtown Beverly Hills to see if i could see anyone.... nope.. no luck. Maybe all the stars are on vacation???? haha

As for tomorrow i'm going to volunteer my services to learn more about the PA role by spending time with another student production of a movie. They needed free labor and i volunteered.. how wonderful for me!!! so i'll fill you in on that one too.. should be pretty neat!