Jessica Trevett

Email: Jazookakunoichi@comcast.net

Resume

I was born March 12, 1990 in Stroud, England. My father’s job required him to move to the United States so my father moved our family to Brentwood, TN. As a child, I always loved films and made short film with my friends and family with our camcorder. Hopefully these abominations will never be seen by the public. I started to want to become a director in around the fifth grade but was focused mainly on art. When I entered high school I planned on taking art one but the class was full because I registered late. Instead I decided to take media because it was film oriented. Now I am in Media Management and now focus more of my attention on film rather than art.

Mainly, I like to make borderline experimental videos inspired by music. One day, I would like to have it the other way round though and have my ideas first and then add music. I would also in the future like to feel confident enough to make a short film with dialogue. Everything I have ever made has had little to no dialogue because I think it is the hardest thing to attempt in film.

PSA

Job Shadow at Act 2 Productions

When searching for someone to job shadow, I discovered the email address of Nancy Bailey of Act 2 productions. They appeared to be mainly a business associated production but did have film listed in their credentials so I thought it would be worth while to contact her. On emailing Nancy Bailey I discovered that she was more than happy to aid me with my media task in allowing me to shadow her as the head director of Act 2 productions. Nancy Bailey works from home so she welcomed me to her house after the Thanksgiving holidays were over. The first thing I noticed when I stepped into her home was that she had a massive amount of photography and paintings on the walls which immediately made me feel more at ease. We introduced ourselves in person for the first time and then she escorted me to her home office. The first thing we did oddly enough was talk about me. She had me explain to her the workings of the media department and the sort of things that interested me as a media student at Ravenwood High school. We then spoke of GPA’s, ACT, SAT, and finding film schools to send applications. We did research on the internet and she sent me the websites of the ones she thought I should research to my email. After this, Nancy Bailey explained to me the structure of the company. She is the owner of the company and the head director. She works from home and has freelance editors who also work from their homes. The company edits a lot of business oriented things such as instructional videos, commercials, advertisements and websites. Although most of the company is business oriented, the production company is currently working on pre-production of a movie deal in which Nancy Bailey would be the director. As a part of the job shadow, Nancy Bailey talked to me about the tough process of beginning a movie production and the many negotiations that are entailed in it. We spoke of the plot of the movie which would be a sport, inspirational film about the white basketball team and the black basketball team in Gallatin, Tennessee and their monumental faceoff game during the 1960’s. She then showed to me a program that her editors put together on the historical event in order to snag Angelo Pizzo, the writer of Hoosier’s and the film Rudy. This tactic actually worked and Angelo Pizzo is in the process of negotiations with Bailey. After showing me the piece on the possible movie, Nancy Bailey showed me a commercial her company made for a heart center in Alabama.

We then went to lunch in which on the way there she spoke to me n how I would have to volunteer hours a week, join youth Legislative, and join more clubs if I wanted to get into a film school. We then arrived at Bread and Company and had lunch while discussing lighting, green screen, and funding for the film she was working on. Before I left her house she showed me more material that her company had produced. On me leaving the job shadow, Nancy Bailey said that we would keep in touch and that she would invite me to the set of the film when they started filming. I enjoyed the shadow and learned a lot about the business.