Wednesday, February 29, 2012

My Tweeps

There are two people I decided to follow.  I followed Ryan Buell, who was the main founder of PRS with is the Paranormal Research Society, and he had a show called "Paranormal State" where they would go around and investigate haunted locations and help out clients who were having problems with the paranormal. Ryan Buell started PRS when he went to college at Penn State.  He apparently was having several experiences in his childhood with paranormal entities which frightened him, but his parents never really paid much attention and chalked it up to childhood imagination, so he in a way wants to be a voice and a helper for those affected by these entities and give a voice to those who have been ignored or called crazy because of the things that they have been experiencing. I have been interested in paranormal stuff for awhile and im actually in a local group in Prescott called "After Dark Paranormal"  which is filming a TV show about what it is that we do, since Ryan Buell is one of my inspirations I decided that I would follow him.  I have seen his movie called "American Ghost Hunter" when they were doing a tour with it around the country and I saw it in Phoenix.  We got to do a meet and greet and I even got a picture with him and my book of his signed by him.  Ryan is a pretty nice guy, another interesting thing is he is a bisexual catholic and another thing he is interested in is helping youth realize that they can still be religious and not be a heterosexual.

The next person I followed is Robyn Kass who is a casting director for reality TV shows such as Big Brother, and love in the wild etc... she is one of the best casting directors in the business and she is apart of something that I am very obsessed and passionate about, so I thought following her and hearing what she had to say about her process with casting would be a good thing to have knowledge on and keep up to date on everything Big Brother. The job of a casting director is to go out and find people who would be a good fit for the TV show they are hired to cast on.  You can either send in a tape or go to an open casting call.  Robyn's team would go through every tape and pick out the ones who they think have an interesting story and could be on the show.  At an open casting call you are in a huge line to meet with casting producers and you have probably about 2 minutes to show who you are and why you are worth getting onto the show.  After they go through all the submissions they cut down the potential cast to like 800.  Then you go through several rounds getting interviewed by the casting directors, and then finally Robyn Kass pitches you to the producers of the show (the ones who hired her) and then they together decide ultimately if you are worth being on the show. 

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