Quest for Bruno County Correctional FacilityStatus:
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About the StoryThis film came about while Sherry Teleky Waple was attending her Criminal Justice Organization and Administration course at the Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC). For this class, each group (which consists of 3 students) must develop either a correctional facility or police department from ground up. The students must determine every factor that would be needed. Sherry Teleky Waple was in a group with Carrie Rutter and Jacinto Valetine III. This group definitely had the advantage because Jacinto is a correctional officer at a local prison. Part of the grade would be the content and the other part would be the presentation of this project. Professor Petyak stated that the students must "sell" their new facility. At this point there were two groups developing a police department and two groups developing correctional facilities. The opposing correctional facility group brought a "challenge" to Sherry, Carrie and Jacinto's group, stating that their group's project and presentation would put Sherry, Carrie & Jacinto's project to shame. Carrie Rutter remembered from the first night of class that Sherry Teleky Waple stated that she was a filmmaker in her spare time. She knew that the other group could not touch them in the presentation if they presented it as a film. Thus, Quest for Bruno County Correctional Facility began. About the ProductionSherry Teleky Waple met with the group and they decided to set the presentation up as a news conference. At this news conference, the town councilman and county commissioners would answer the questions of the concerned citizens and reporters. Sherry would pen the script with questions and answers that the group decided. (A small piece of trivia regarding the script - Sherry is a huge Bruce Willis fan and all the characters in this projected were characters that Bruce Willis played at one point in his career or a variation of his characters). Sherry inquired with Advisor Petyak and Professor Eppley in the drama department at HACC about acquiring cast and crew for this project since it was a student project. With the help of Professor Eppley cast/crew calls were posted throughout the campus and word spread fast. The first contact came from Robert Haag who was a tremendous help in this project. He spread the word through pafilms.com and with this resource, the cast was acquired. Cheryl Scungio, who was cast as the lead in Sherry's short film "Obsession" was honored when Sherry called upon her again for another project and was cast in the lead female role in this project as well. Sherry turned to her dependable crew for some help. Dan Scully, Mike Henry and Kelsey Teleky were again very supportive and assisted in this student project. Carrie Rutter stepped up to the plate and acted as a production assistant and helped Kelsey in the script supervisory capacity. It was decided from the beginning that the shoot would take place at the front steps of the Harrisburg Capitol Building. Sherry acquired permission from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to shoot on the steps and a date of October 21, 2007 was set. The cast arrived at 8am to a beautiful autumn day. Sherry had taken location photos the week before so all that needed to be done was to run through the shots with the crew. Upon a sound check, it was discovered that a piece was missing for the boom, so Dan Scully was kind enough to run to Middletown to retrieve the piece. At this point, the cast began to arrive and it was obvious that the shoot would not start on time at 9am. With all the cast present, Sherry decided to do a dry run. She wanted to run straight through, from start to finish, just like a press conference would be done. No cuts would be called unless due to technical issues. During the dry run, Sherry directed the cast to exactly what she wanted and they followed her instructions with the utmost professionalism. Finally, 20 minutes later, Dan returned with the missing audio part and the shoot began. A total of 6 takes were shot, each with different angles. Since Sherry decided to give the cast some improv abilities, she wanted to be sure to capture all of their reactions. This cast did extremely well at both the scripted material and the improv aspects of this project. Front start to finish the entire shoot took four hours. The tapes were handed off to yet another faithful crew member, Dan Shaffer, who would edit the final piece together. Dan worked with Sherry on both "Obsession" and the documentary "Blue Raiders: Fury On Ice". Many thanks to the cast and crew for their support in this project. We could not have done it without all of you! The CastCheryl Scungio - Jessica McClane Robert Haag - Commissioner Harrison Hill Alan Metz - Commissioner Jack Mosley Ian Fedorchick - Councilman James Cole Marcus Williams - Bruce Hartigan Brenda Dettrey - Katie Jordan Sammy Cesar - David Dunn B.B. Kamara - Citizen #1 & #4 Maria-Cristina Saaverdra - Citizen #2 & #3 Marty Isaacman - Citizen #5 Lydia Kutzler - Reporter #1 Jill Lutz - Reporter #2 Rene Ruiz - Reporter #3 & #4 The CrewSherry Teleky Waple - Writer/Director/Producer/Camera Op Mike Henry - Director of Photography Dan Scully - Boom Operator Dan Shaffer - Editor Kelsey Teleky - Script Supervisor Chris Rooney - Camera Op Carrie Rutter - Production Assistant |
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