Across Arkansas with Lydia Joseph (pilot)
My first big freelance assignment was a biggie indeed - I stepped up from 30 second spots to editing and posting a 30 minute show; I started working on this immediately after leaving 40/29, and had actually been contacted about it before I was even actively soliciting business as a freelancer. This was a pilot presentation for a local daytime news/public affairs show, hosted and produced by Lydia Joseph, who I had worked with at Fox 46 years ago, and shot by Kirsten Cutsinger, who I knew from KPOM (back when it was KPOM, before the relaunch of their newscast). Once the stories and intro material were shot, everything was my responsibility, from developing and implementing the graphic “look” of the show, to editing, and even doing the voice-overs for the show’s intro and bumpers. As of 2008, the show has not sold, so the pilot remains the only produced work on this project.
