Word. That was
almost the title today: Word. Let's do this all
chronological and shiznit...
Jump in the car
around 11:25 AM for the 12 Noon shooting. Found out
right after I put the entry up that it is indeed
anything but live. In fact I think only 3 or 4
markets ever see it live - majority see it on the east
coast with a one hour delay and here in LA with a 5
hour delay. So I couldn't do the cell phone trick
with Jess - I just had to stand my ass in
THE spot for a friggin' hour. (sigh).
Got there in like
10 minutes, parked near Marty Moose's old apartment
and walked over to the spot in between the palm trees
that got the most coverage behind Ryan on the
show:
Well, that happens
to be the property of the Renaissance Hotel. So that
lasted about 29 seconds. The guy was nice about it but
still made my ass leave. And in hindsight saved me an
entirely wasted day. I proceeded to walk towards
the studio in the courtyard where there were people
gathered for the outdoor segment. We were about 5
minutes from air and somehow I just walked up
there and looked like I knew what I was
doing. The producer looked at my sign and said there
was no way. No advertising whatsoever. He said
I could join the small audience (that had been
waiting for hours) if I put the sign under the
lighting rig. Why not I thought - might as well
get on TV. So I looked at the camera set-up and
assumed where the action would be and stood in
line...then as they were about to go on air
I JUMPED on this concrete couch like thing and
heh - you can see the result:
Hell you can even
see the Hollywood sign to the left of me above that
girl's hair. Perfect placement. Talk about being in
the right place at the right time. Kid told me he had
been there since 10:00 AM and I walk up 5 minutes
before and you can't even see his pathetic ass. That
girl in front of me had a pretty primo spot and a
better smile to tell you the truth. In
fact:
I
always end up looking like a villain when
I think I'm being cool. LOL. I really just
felt like the loser guy in his 30s next to
a bunch of kids born in the 90s. This show
certainly targets the mid to low teens
crowd. Anyway, I was in about 5
minutes total of footage even after
I edited EVERYTHING out. So there's a
whole section I just didn't put in the
web
video
because it was just too damn long. Saved
it for later use though.
After they
finished with the outdoor part of the show,
I jumped back across the street to the one corner
I noticed on the monitors they pan to very
rarely...but it's a lot closer than the first hotel
spot. I figured I might as well stand there for
the last 20 minutes of the show - maybe I'd get
lucky...
Well, yeah - I'm
there. Heh. But we now see thatit's just tooooooooo
far away. And that spot is quite a bit closer than the
other spot - so thank GOD that dude made me leave
or I'd have sat there for an hour. It was also windy
as HELL, and as you can kinda see in the video I'm
having a helluva time keeping it straight...but it
mattered very little as the sun just completely bled
it out. I zoomed one frame up REALLY big and
could make out 4. Even if I had a black sign with
red or white letters, it's just too far away
I believe.
So why didn't
I hold something up when I was in the
audience!?!?! I knew that producer dude would've
freaked and I looked at this as more of a
reconnasaince mission and I didn't want to blow
everything. I mean I guess I could just
jump my ass down there and start talking to Ryan with
a sign glued to my shirt before they dragged my ass
away...but not the first day. Oh and no, a 4tvs.com
shirt wouldn't help - that would simply keep me from
being in the audience.
Looking over the
footage there's one other place that may
work:
Assuming
I had a sign that was about twice as big, and
probably black with white letters - outside the
internet cafe is a great spot. Only problem is it's a
rarity that it gets on screen during the hour - maybe
once or twice a show - whereas the first spot was hit
about 40. But again, too far away. This is zoomed in
and has a possibility of being read. May get the
"private property" bullshit again, but it's worth
a try. I'm gonna use the sign I have now on
Monday - and if it doesn't show up well, but
I get it seen - I'll make a seriously big,
expensive bigass one. And I'll just camp my ass out
there every day off I have from 12-1
PM.
Although
I must admit - I think having an Adam Kontras
sign could be a better plan of attack. Assuming
I do find a way to get it shown, I think the
producers of the show would be more likely to respond
to the "emails" (phase 2 of this plan) if they
know it's just a guy trying to promote himself. A
website just makes it seem like it's a money thing.
We'll see how well it shows up and go from there.
Unfortunately - Adam Kontras is 11 letters and man
that might be pushing it for viewability. Hmmm. Sucks,
because the one big thing I learned today is
ANYTHING.com is just bad news. People see it and they
just don't want any part of it. They always assume
it's some scam. If I could make it say Adam
Kontras.com - then maybe...but 4tvs makes no sense to
anyone.
We'll see. It was
fun. And hey - there's my television exposure
I said I had to have to have this be a
successful year right?
...HELL NO.
Heh. 4tvs, on the air. Probably not national - but
most definitely here in LA. Has to happen. Needs to
happen...is going to happen.
But this is kinda
fun. So check out the show on Monday afternoon and
keep watchin the right side of the window for the
internet cafe. I probably won't bother trying to
be in the audience as it does little for me other than
be "cool". If the sign thing just doesn't work
whatsoever - yeah, I'll just be audience boy whenever
I can and have Trinitron DVDs on me. I'm also
gluing that hat to my head. I swear that people always
remember my ass with that. If they see me enough who
knows.
God this really
seems desperate - but man, the whole thing took like
90 minutes out of my day INCLUDING the drive. I
mean for national television exposure you can't beat
that. And while I'm writing T3 it's a fun little
subplot of The Journey.
