Another Meeting Another Chance

So I had another meeting with my "agent" and his company.  Don't get me wrong he's not that typical Hollywood type.  I mean he's not necessarily Ari from Entourage, is what I am trying to say.  He is aggressive when he needs to be and he really knows his sh*t.  But there we were in his office.  We have to make a final presentation to the company that is interested in us.

He sat there and started to make a flow chart on a notepad.  It was raining and I couldn't stop staring outside while this acid rain fell on the Wilshire district.  He asked (well told ) me how he felt we needed to attract this situation.  The production company is looking to include the homeless portion to a greater position in the show than what I had really intended.  Although there is a strong presence that the homeless do have in the work lives of the firefighters I never really wanted that to be a big part of the story.  Although he (agent) we will call him J, said that the company mainly produces scripted shows (movies) they are now looking to branch off to non-scripted or reality docu-series projects.  Station 9 for example. 

Since we have to get them to understand this show and its story arcs we should add in that element to it. Its that human tragedy, face on and face forward.  It reminded me of the firehouse at night.  When the sun would set in Skid Row the firehouse would close the big doors.  When fully closed there are two rectangle windows looking out to the street.  If you stand there with the fire truck to your back, you see all the people out there.  Bathed in the orange glow of the street lamps you see the figures start to gather.  Some of them would be building their cardboard homes for the night.  Others are there to buy drugs, others were selling drugs and still others were selling themselves.  I would stand there and just look out.  One time a firefighter came up to me and said "you like our big screen TV?"

"Its better than any cop show on TV, because its real. Its real life out there." We just both leaned up against the shiny chrome of his truck and watched in silence.  

However it wasn't too long before that familiar tone of the alarm broke the calm.  The room which was as quite as a church lit up with life and the door began to open.  I and my audio guy jumped into the truck and off we went to face the real world out there.

 

I guess now sitting there in this posh Hollywood office high up on the 8th floor its easy to forget those things.  Its easy for me to dismiss it all.  But I agreed that we need to add that in there. Its those people out there in that real world that are living that life that those firefighters meet up with everyday and night.

We are creating a presentation that will be sent to them this Friday or as late as Monday.  We will see.  I guess that is all that I really can say.  We'll see.  Our fight and strength is already out there. When we send the presentation to them its all up to them to see it for what its worth.  I only hope they can understand it like I do and all of you do as well. 

Once I get more info then I will pass it along.