No big news today, but every experience helps in life. Last night I did a background gig as a boom operator on the set of the highly successful Canadian series "Degrassi: The Next Generation".
A little information about the series, The Next Generation is the fourth incarnation of the successful Degrassie franchise. In its twenty fifth year of production the series started back in the early 1980's as "The Kids on Degrassi" followed the growing pains of its pre-teen characters. They grew into teen hood and so did the series, it was off too "Junior High" and then "High School" for the Degrassi kids.
The series was internationally applauded for being the first series directed towards youth to compationately protray aids, gay relationships, bullying, teen pregnancy and divorce. Degrassi was showing the real life issues that effected our youth while American teen series like "Beverly Hills 90210" were busy with the pressing question "Does Brandon like Donna?" who cared?
As the actors grew out of their parts and moved on to bigger and better things, the series kept developing. A new batch of young performers mixed with returning guest appearances mixed with fresh scripts dealing with the ever evolving issues of youth.
That brings me back to last night, there I was pretending to be part of a media scrum interviewing the one and only Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes, portraying their famous Silent Bob and Jay characters, who were being upstaged at their premier of the ficticious new movie "Silent Bob and Jay Go to Canada, Eh" by their two gorgious lesbian co-stars.
A bit about how this odd marriage of talent came to be. Briefly, Degrassi TNG was airing on PBS in America and caught the eye of Smith who fell in love with the show and its characters so much he phoned the producers of the all Canadian production and requested to do a cameo.
A three episode deal, in which Smith would portray himself as a producer of the new Silent Bob feature, shooting at the high school. Smith also would portray his alter ego "Silent Bob". That was last season, now "Silent Bob" is back for the premier and brought his side kick "Jay" upto Canada for the first time. Click on the link for more.
The guys where great, professional, right on!.
Kenaz,
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