{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Brown Water Banter","title":"#367 — A Location Scout Knocked on Her Door. Now She Shoots for NFL Films","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4105,"description":"A location scout knocked on Savannah's door in high school and handed her a card. She thought it was sketchy and almost threw it away. Her mom made the call — and less than a week later, producers from LA were walking through their house in Biloxi scouting a Nicolas Cage movie.\nSavannah and Dalton from Little Lighthouse Productions join us to talk about building a production company from the ground up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and what it actually takes to work in film without leaving the state.\nIn this episode:\n- How a stand-in role on the set of Arsenal — with Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, and Adrian Grenier — turned a high schooler with zero camera experience into a filmmaker\n- Dalton's path from computer science and boilermaking into audio work, and leaving the nine-to-five in February to go full time\n- What a real film set looks like: focus pullers, boom ops, grips, gaffers, and three cameras rolling nonstop\n- Savannah's work with NFL Films — selected for their women's sports film program, then nine documentary shoots across last season, Hard Knocks and 30 for 30 style\n- Shooting the Peacock series Road to the Show on Jesús Made, the Biloxi Shuckers shortstop who is now the No. 1 prospect in all of baseball\n- Working on HGTV's Hometown in Laurel and Love and Fairhope in Alabama\n- Creating Gulf Coast Real Estate (R-E-E-L) with Travis Page — part travel show, part real estate marketing\n- Why audio matters more than video, and how a $35 Hollyland mic changes everything\n- Mississippi's film tax incentives, the Film Mississippi crew registry, and why more local crew means more productions coming here\n- The Mississippi Film Alliance — grants, mentorship, and the upcoming film summit in Jackson at MPB\n- Gear progression from DSLRs and iPhones to Sony FX 30s and FX 6s\n- Do you need film school? Honest advice for breaking in on the Gulf Coast in 2026\nWhether you're a local business looking for professional video, an aspiring filmmaker, or just curious what goes on...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/DPLYHjof8naQg9G5T3sZGWPbxt9wIDpGok2VoN1Q-uc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kOTFm/Mjc3YTI3Zjc5MDA4/NGI2ODQzY2M1MGY4/NTdkYi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}