Life of Kyle Prohaska

Today I went scouting for more locations.  I needed to gather photos and get a sense of the floor layout of some of our possible shooting areas.  My first stop was a Bagel Shop on Poplar Ave. near the Hospital.  It was a great place…lots of character in there.  You can tell it’s been there for a while, and the folks were extremely nice.  I must have looked a bit odd to the customers though, some guy coming in a bagel shop of all things, asking questions about the times they close/open, and snapping photos.  ”WEIRDO!”  Anyways, I got the pictures I needed and headed to location number two, which was the most important if not the most important place to check out…the police station.  We have a decent amount of things to do here and we need full support of the station, which we’ve been able to get.  I had a guy show me around to each little spot in the building we knew we would need to be in, wrote down the times it would be available and snapped some photos.

The location should work out just fine, with a few challenges here and there.  One thing that really interested me was the folks at the desk of the station.  Before I left I got talking about what the movie was about and mentioned the racism element.  Immediately they started opening up and telling me things that they’ve seen that were an eye opener, even within their own department.  I also noticed pulling in earlier and leaving that the station was surrounded by a lot of lower class beaten up homes and project type houses.  You can tell this area of Memphis isn’t the greatest place to be…and here in the middle is this police station.

Afterwards I checked out another home that could possibly work for Sam’s but it won’t…too nice looking, lol.  On the way home I got some Arby’s, and LOVED eating it, ha ha.  Later on in the day I got a phone call I wish I could tell you about but I can’t at the moment.  Hopefully we’ll know more soon but the phone call did make me a tad queezy.  It’s very humbling and to a degree…sickening to be given some opportunities that I’ve been given in the past 4 years of my life.  Sometimes I just don’t know what to say to folks or how to react when I hear of something cool possibly in the works.  That’s just God Blessing me I guess.  Why me?  I don’t know…I’m nothing special.  Just a 20 something nobody from a town with one stop light in the sticks of NY, with no fancy shmancy degree, etc.  I’ll talk about this more later when/if what the phone call was about actually happens.

Later on I met with David and his wife Esther for dinner and headed back to his house to work on a few things.  They’re such great folks…I get closer to them each time we visit.  I think we’ll work together again on something, and we have barely gotten started on the first project.  It just seems like a friendship that’ll last a long time…

All in all a pretty good day.  It was odd driving around and intruding on people with a camera and a notebook…but that’s ok.  It’s all part of the job