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at Roger Deacons.com. Today's topic is how did we get started in all this. We are joined by Matt Wiemann, our friend and

cohort who's with us over Skype and let's begin about beginnings.

How did you get started?

How did I get started? Well, I actually went to college and did Latin and Greek, never planning to do

anything with it just because I would never do that on my own. And during college, I did multimedia shows, which were orientation, freshman, junior, and then I did one on rape on campus, which was really interesting because we had to create it in such a way without saying

what we were doing. So we used a lot of landmarks and stuff like that. And it made me realize I like to tell

stories, so I wanted to get into film and when I came back to New York and started out, there was a job at the film lab that was supposed to only be a six month job but they said

we'd like you to organize a service department but they gave me the title of

supervisor so I had all of these technicians from the basement of the lab coming up to me and saying

the CRI has Newton rings. Should we put it back in the bath or remake it? I had to figure out what a CRI was so I am

on a Newton ring initially. I was that for Halloween one year but anyway that's another story But so I learned so much. My God, I learned so much. And then, and technically I understood about film now and all of that. And then afterwards I left and I did one job as a post-production supervisor,

which is exactly the same as working in the lab except you're the customer

and you're always right and you're paid better.

But it wasn't that much of a challenge for me.

So then I found script supervising which was definitely a challenge and I was terrible at it in the beginning

because there was no one there to help me which is why I do try and help people now

because it was really hard and I went on set and I was a script supervisor.

Luckily it was very low budget and I didn't know anything.

So from there I did that and then I met you expect something like that

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