Quote:
Originally Posted by jbrown84
We can't force cameramen and grips and lighting technicians to move here and wait around for the occasional project. We have to train our own residents as students in this field and hope some of them stick around permanently. We are getting better in this area. OKCCC and OCU have growing film departments, and other schools like OU and OBU offer programs in video beyond just Broadcast News. Hollywood producer Gray Fredrickson moved here and set up a production company.
The fact is that they would have to relocate industry professional here indefinitely to shoot the show, and it's just rare that a show will do that. Like I said, even ER doesn't shoot in Chicago.
|
Exactly, and as I read in the early 90s when this whole thing started that
that was the goal. Almost 15 years later and we still haven't developed any homegrown techs that have stuck around the area. I'm not asking that we become another hollywood but I'd at least like to see that when a show is set in Oklahoma that they would shoot here and use local techs. I hate seeing a show about Oklahoma shot elsewhere. They have plenty of industry professionals in places like Dallas and Austin to shoot on location there, what's wrong with asking that we could do the same. I don't think we're all that different from an Austin, we can do it. And it seems to me that we've had enough time to do this. Time, to me now, is just an excuse.