Summer interns Josh Stipanovich and Brett Savaglio at work in Jersey City
This summer we have taken on two summer interns.
In order to make sure that they actually learn something, I took them out in the field yesterday to shoot their first pieces.
Josh is going into his senior year at Youngstown State University. Brett just finished his freshman year at Washington University in St. Louis.
Here’s a lesson I passed on to them that IÂ think has real value to anyone making a piece in the field.
Among other things, we shot a profile of an aspiring artist in NJ who is also a ‘stay at home dad’.
We got to his house and shot b-roll of him working on one of his painting, but after a few minutes of that (close up on the hands, close up on the face, etc..), we had gathered plenty of good material (don’t move the camera!)
After 15 minutes Josh said ‘even I’m bored’.
So I started to look around the house. Photo albums – talk to us about how you met your wife, who was your high school sweetheart and who, as a corporate lawyer, supports your aspirations to be an artist. Nice photos!
His living room was filled with his work:Â tell us about these.
He’s a stay at home dad, but where are the kids? At pre-school.  Where is that? About 15 mintues from here. Let’s go!
Nice driving sequences.
Nice sequences with the kid at pre-school.
He’s having a show next week at the local Knights of Columbus. Â Where’s that?
A mile away.
Let’s go.
Nice sequences at the KofC Hall as he anticipates the show.
Now we have 5 or 6 locations and some transitional shots as he goes from place to place.
We didn’t spend all that long at each location – just enough to get what we needed. But now, when the piece is assembled, it will have a lot of richness and diversity to it.
A lot of depth.
But it didn’t take a lot of time.
It will only seem that way when you watch the story.
