reported by Tim Garrison, CyberScreenwriter.com

Bryan Ferre, creative director and producer of The Prodigy, Opportunity Knocks collaborated with Collins College to recruit the reality show’s field camera crew. The Prodigy hired 17 Collins College film graduates to follow contestants in 57 cities throughout the country. Ferre is an alumnus of Collins College.

The stage for The Prodigy is a real business with a real company where candidates are paid to work. All contestants have been trained to canvas the market and sell advanced technologies. Contestants are grouped into teams that compete with each other during the work day. Teams also share living arrangements. Film crews will follow individuals for four months, filming them day and night.

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reported by Samuel Grigsby, CyberScreenwriter.com

Trever James, a Los Angeles Film School graduate, has been selected as one of the 15 finalists on FOX’s nationally-televised reality show, "On the Lot."

James, who graduated with honors from The Los Angeles Film School in 2005, has survived three rounds of cuts since the show premiered.

After beating out a group of more than 12,000 applicants, James was one of 50 contestants that appeared in the show’s first episode. He then moved into the next round, where he completed a short film with two other contestants in less than one day.

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