Aug. 2 Magazine consultant: I found this magazine called
Template, back when I was in college in 2007. I read some of it, and it
mentioned being a magazine consultant. I Google "How to be a magazine
consultant?"
I got a lot of consulting magazines like one called Consultant:
http://www.fcsi.org/?page=TheConsultant
I see beauty, traveling consultants.
It did lead me to this website about good consulting books:
http://managementconsulted.com/consulting-jobs/must-read-books-and-periodicals-for-management-consultants/
It didn't lead to me to any sites on how to become one and pursue that career.
Script reader: This was last month, but I was trying to be a script reader. I emailed TV producers and production companies if they had any scripts for me to read. One producer emailed me some scripts and then I read them and wrote notes about it. It was to gain experience.
I guess I thought up this idea because I email my script to producers and production companies. After a few weeks I ask if they read it yet. They often say no, and to email back in another three weeks. I have gotten reader reports and it has harsh comments. I also have Writer in Residence's reports on my scripts.
The reader reports I gave have a lot to do with punctuation and proofreading. I do ask questions in the script like "Is this scene necessary?"
Here's a good article on how to be one:
http://gideonsway.wordpress.com/2010/06/19/so-you-want-to-be-a-script-reader/
As for this other article, it's kind of snarky and funny:
http://screenplayreaders.com/the-top-5-skills-needed-to-be-a-great-script-reader/
I got a lot of consulting magazines like one called Consultant:
http://www.fcsi.org/?page=TheConsultant
I see beauty, traveling consultants.
It did lead me to this website about good consulting books:
http://managementconsulted.com/consulting-jobs/must-read-books-and-periodicals-for-management-consultants/
It didn't lead to me to any sites on how to become one and pursue that career.
Script reader: This was last month, but I was trying to be a script reader. I emailed TV producers and production companies if they had any scripts for me to read. One producer emailed me some scripts and then I read them and wrote notes about it. It was to gain experience.
I guess I thought up this idea because I email my script to producers and production companies. After a few weeks I ask if they read it yet. They often say no, and to email back in another three weeks. I have gotten reader reports and it has harsh comments. I also have Writer in Residence's reports on my scripts.
The reader reports I gave have a lot to do with punctuation and proofreading. I do ask questions in the script like "Is this scene necessary?"
Here's a good article on how to be one:
http://gideonsway.wordpress.com/2010/06/19/so-you-want-to-be-a-script-reader/
As for this other article, it's kind of snarky and funny:
http://screenplayreaders.com/the-top-5-skills-needed-to-be-a-great-script-reader/
Zeitgeist Films: I was going through my old notes and found
this. This is NYC company that distributes independent films all over the US
and the world. It looks pretty good.
http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/about.php
Liquid Crystal Productions: In college, I remember getting an email in my school account, that this film company called Liquid Crystal Films was looking for scripts with a strong female character. I was going through my old notes and found it.
I then Google it, and all I got was construction about how to make glass. Then I found this. It's like a New Age film:
http://www.liquidcrystalvision.com/film.htm
Then I typed in "production company" and I found it. It's called Liquid Crystal Productions.
Idiom.ca: I see in my old notes to email "kenneth@idom.com." I checked idom.com, and it's an engineering company:
http://www.idom.com/en/industry-and-energy/mision-ie-e/
There's nothing in idom.ca. I tried idiom.ca, and it's not a TV production company site.
http://www.idiom.ca/open-webcam-search-terms-oh-my/
Idiom.com doesn't have a TV production either. I got this site:
http://www.aerioconnect.net/acquired/
This note was written in 2009. I checked my email account, but nothing was there.
Incendo: I go through more of my notes and find the production company Incendo. It had made the TV movies Lethal Obsession and Lies and Deception. You can read my reviews by searching the titles on my blog. It did make more TV shows you may have heard of like Crusoe and Metropia.
http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/about.php
Liquid Crystal Productions: In college, I remember getting an email in my school account, that this film company called Liquid Crystal Films was looking for scripts with a strong female character. I was going through my old notes and found it.
I then Google it, and all I got was construction about how to make glass. Then I found this. It's like a New Age film:
http://www.liquidcrystalvision.com/film.htm
Then I typed in "production company" and I found it. It's called Liquid Crystal Productions.
Idiom.ca: I see in my old notes to email "kenneth@idom.com." I checked idom.com, and it's an engineering company:
http://www.idom.com/en/industry-and-energy/mision-ie-e/
There's nothing in idom.ca. I tried idiom.ca, and it's not a TV production company site.
http://www.idiom.ca/open-webcam-search-terms-oh-my/
Idiom.com doesn't have a TV production either. I got this site:
http://www.aerioconnect.net/acquired/
This note was written in 2009. I checked my email account, but nothing was there.
Incendo: I go through more of my notes and find the production company Incendo. It had made the TV movies Lethal Obsession and Lies and Deception. You can read my reviews by searching the titles on my blog. It did make more TV shows you may have heard of like Crusoe and Metropia.
http://www.incendo.ca/en.html
Aug. 3 Question: I have written down the question: "What other TV production jobs are there that I can apply to?"
Script reader: I emailed all these production companies to be a script reader and got rejections. Only one producer emailed me these scripts for me to read to build experience. It was a good job lead.
Script consultant: I Google "How to become a script consultant" and "How to be a script consultant." I mainly got articles about it, but it doesn't answer my question. There were some schools, mainly American and it's not necessary to go there.
But it was mainly script consulting services like "If you need someone to look at your script, contact us." This wasn't a really good job lead.
I found this Script Consultant Institute. If I go to screenwriting classes at MacEwan and FAVA, I can use that education for this position.
http://www.scriptwritercentral.com/sci/about.html
Here's an interview with Linda Seger on how she got into script consulting. It was inspiring.
http://theprospermagazine.com/2010/01/interview-with-linda-seger/
Artful Writer: I then found this blog post. It's good and does diss Seger and script consultants. Here's an excerpt of the post:
"Let me say it loudly and clearly: IF THEY WERE ANY GOOD, THEY WOULD BE DOING WHAT I DO, NOT DOING WHAT THEY DO.
Dig? Simple rule of thumb: don’t spend a dime on a book, a lesson, a seminar or advice if the person selling DOESN’T HAVE A REAL MOVIE CREDIT."
http://artfulwriter.com/?p=1095
Story editor: It did lead my search to be a story editor. A script consultant is pre-production on working on the script. A story editor comes in when there's development and funding in place. Like when the script is going to be produced.
http://www.productionheads.com/2010/09/1378/
On Wikipedia it says the position is like a "supervising producer." They edit stories for screenplays. It maybe called "Head writer."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_editor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_writer
Aug. 3 Question: I have written down the question: "What other TV production jobs are there that I can apply to?"
Script reader: I emailed all these production companies to be a script reader and got rejections. Only one producer emailed me these scripts for me to read to build experience. It was a good job lead.
Script consultant: I Google "How to become a script consultant" and "How to be a script consultant." I mainly got articles about it, but it doesn't answer my question. There were some schools, mainly American and it's not necessary to go there.
But it was mainly script consulting services like "If you need someone to look at your script, contact us." This wasn't a really good job lead.
I found this Script Consultant Institute. If I go to screenwriting classes at MacEwan and FAVA, I can use that education for this position.
http://www.scriptwritercentral.com/sci/about.html
Here's an interview with Linda Seger on how she got into script consulting. It was inspiring.
http://theprospermagazine.com/2010/01/interview-with-linda-seger/
Artful Writer: I then found this blog post. It's good and does diss Seger and script consultants. Here's an excerpt of the post:
"Let me say it loudly and clearly: IF THEY WERE ANY GOOD, THEY WOULD BE DOING WHAT I DO, NOT DOING WHAT THEY DO.
Dig? Simple rule of thumb: don’t spend a dime on a book, a lesson, a seminar or advice if the person selling DOESN’T HAVE A REAL MOVIE CREDIT."
http://artfulwriter.com/?p=1095
Story editor: It did lead my search to be a story editor. A script consultant is pre-production on working on the script. A story editor comes in when there's development and funding in place. Like when the script is going to be produced.
http://www.productionheads.com/2010/09/1378/
On Wikipedia it says the position is like a "supervising producer." They edit stories for screenplays. It maybe called "Head writer."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_editor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_writer
Raindance Alberta:
I don't believe I've heard of this better. It's like FAVA. Raindance holds
workshops, conferences, and networking events. There are locations all over Canada
like Toronto and Montreal.
There's one in the UK.
There's memberships for $100 a yr, or $10 a month.
http://raindancecanada.com/
Aug. 4 Publishing companies: I applied for jobs at some publishing companies. There are some in Edmonton.
Lone Pine Publishing: They make those Ghost Stories in Alberta.
http://www.lonepinepublishing.com/
Tanner Young: They produce magazines.
http://www.tanneryoung.com/
Aug. 13 I got published: My poem "Downtown Streets" is going to be published by the Poetry Institute of Canada. It will be in the anthology called Island Wonders. Remember last year, I did get that poem published, but then I forgot to send in my author release form. So then it was delayed and I had to submit again.
Today when I got that letter, I immediately filled it out and sent it in. You can read my poem if you look it up on my blog www.badcb.blogspot.ca.
Blue Skies Poetry: I went through my old emails and found that I have submitted a couple of poems including "Downtown Streets" to them back in 2007. I got rejected by them, but that's okay because the Poetry Institute of Canada published it. Here's the website:
http://blueskiespoetry.ca/
http://raindancecanada.com/
Aug. 4 Publishing companies: I applied for jobs at some publishing companies. There are some in Edmonton.
Lone Pine Publishing: They make those Ghost Stories in Alberta.
http://www.lonepinepublishing.com/
Tanner Young: They produce magazines.
http://www.tanneryoung.com/
Aug. 13 I got published: My poem "Downtown Streets" is going to be published by the Poetry Institute of Canada. It will be in the anthology called Island Wonders. Remember last year, I did get that poem published, but then I forgot to send in my author release form. So then it was delayed and I had to submit again.
Today when I got that letter, I immediately filled it out and sent it in. You can read my poem if you look it up on my blog www.badcb.blogspot.ca.
Blue Skies Poetry: I went through my old emails and found that I have submitted a couple of poems including "Downtown Streets" to them back in 2007. I got rejected by them, but that's okay because the Poetry Institute of Canada published it. Here's the website:
http://blueskiespoetry.ca/
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