Power Morphicon

Sorry for the lack of updates in the last weeks.  I've been moving to Los Angeles to pursue and broaden my film career finally and that's taken all my time lately.  So now that I'm settled in, time to make my first blog post from the West Coast!  And what will that first post be?  Differences in the film industry that I've noticed here?  The layout of studios around the city?  Maybe something about the internships I'm looking for.

Nope.  It's Power Morphicon.  It's a convention all about Saban's Power Rangers and a couple of their other shows, and anyone who knows me in person will tell you I'm a huge Power Rangers fan.  When I found out the third installment of this convention would start literally the day after I moved into my apartment here, I had to sign up to go.  If you've browsed around this site you'll notice that I talked about how Star Wars was the driving force into me pursuing film making.  Well Power Rangers was the major driving force for other parts of my life in a similar fashion, so I was honored to have the opportunity to meet the actors who played my childhood heroes and finally thank them for all they've done.  I could go write chapters about how awesome everything was, so I'll keep this post short and relevant.

Let me reel this back and relate it to the whole film making thing for a bit.  In addition to meeting the cast and crew of the show, I got to learn a lot about the behind the scenes production of the show.  I learned about the process of voice acting.  I finally learned how the show evolved from an episodic format to having longer storylines and multi part episodes in later seasons.  And lots lots more.

So whether you're a big Power Rangers fan like me or not, let me give you this advice.  If there's a convention you want to go to, for whatever reason, buckle up and go to it!  Obviously you'll get to meet your favorite actors and maybe buy some cool, collectibe stuff.  But you'll also get to ask those burning questions about how they made something in the show to the people directly involved in production!  Maybe you'll use those same production techniques on your same shoot, or learn to avoid a problem that the producers frequently ran into.  Again, I'm being vague here, but it's only because if I start going into detail we'll both be here all day watching this blog post go on and on.

So that's all.  And it's Morphin' Time!