This is from www.badcb.blogspot.ca:
Dec. 27
Roadie books: On Dec. 15, 2012, I was reading the Edmonton Journal, and there was an article about Faith
Farthing's house. She has her own editing business called FinalEyes Communications and Publishing business Roadie Books.
http://www.facebook.com/FinalEyesRoadie
New directions: The Year of New
Directions continues. One email talked about my office job search. Here's the one about the writing.
TV production: I passed out my resume to every TV production company in Edmonton. I
finished after a month. Then I applied to radio stations.
I did job interviews at TV companies and met with producers. I was on Linked In to connect with them.
The Golden Vanguard: I had my movie reviews published on their website this year.
Edmonton Journal: Yesterday I had a blurb about eating at the Old Spaghetti Factory published in the Edmonton Journal's
food section. In the newspaper, they were asking readers for their
favorite meals, movies, and books of 2012. I showed it to my family and
told it to my friends on Facebook.
Dec. 29: I've been very
productive because there's nothing on TV and not much job postings. I
turned to my TV production. I started reading my Great American
Screenwriter email newsletters.
Movie Magic Screenwriter 6: This costs $250. It has templates like Final Draft. This page compares it to Final Draft, and it
talks about how Movie Magic is different.
http://www.screenplay.com/p-29-movie-magic-screenwriter-6.aspx
Final Draft Software:
This is a cool software program to
help write your script. I use Microsoft Word. There's even a "Text to
Speech" component where you can hear the computer read your script out
loud with different male and female voices. That's so cool. It's for
$169. I'll stick with Microsoft Word and paper and pen.
http://www.writersstore.com/final-draft-screenwriting-software?source=g-fd-international?cid=1820&gclid=CJa96ZvbwLQCFYN_Qgod-yMAGw
Indiegogo: I
recently discovered this from reading that newsletter. This is where
you can raise money for your campaign. There's no fee or application
process. It's kind of like Kickstarter, but that is for creative
projects. I wrote about it on my blog before.
This seems like an
interesting and good site. It says" You can raise money for anything,
including for-profit ventures, creative ideas or personal needs." It's
located in San Francisco. There's a picture
of a sunglasses frame that says: "Go fund yourself." lol.
http://www.indiegogo.com/
http://thevertexfighter.blogspot.ca/2012/05/kickstarter-job-interview-goal.html
Journey in Distribution: In
the newsletter, there was this long article by Signe Olynyk about
distribution and what she went through when she was getting her film Below Zero made.
She
discusses the difference between a sales agent and a distributor. A
sales agent is the middle man who is supposed to connect you with the
distributor. A distributor "are companies with the means to get your
film into the world.
They often work with Sales Agents or Aggregators, and sell the rights
they have
to your film to VOD, DVD, cable, etc for a percentage."
http://thevertexfighter.blogspot.ca/2012/12/a-filmmakers-harvest-journey-in.html
Flashback: I'm kind of putting the cart before the horse right now. I'm not in production right now for my The Vertex Fighter,
but it's good to know some things in this industry. It's kind of like
that time when I went to the U of A for this "Salary negotiation"
seminar in 2011. I was going to all these job interviews, and I should learn
something about salary negotiation because money is discussed during the
interviews.
Videoblocks.com: Also I got this newsletter
about this website called Videoblocks.com. It "is the first
subscription-based resource for downloading royalty-free stock footage, motion backgrounds, production music, sound effects, After Effects templates and more."
I saw some of the footage, and they're really good high production value. This could inspire me to write
something.
http://www.videoblocks.com/
Stage 32:
From the newsletters, I discovered Stage 32. It's a social networking
site for people in the TV or theater industry. It's a pretty good
website if you want to connect with other people in the industry for
your projects. However, I'm going to stick with Linked In and my TV
contacts there.
http://www.stage32.com/blog
Jane Espenson: I was on Stage 32, and it lead me to Jane Espenson's website. She's a Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel writer. She's now writing for Once Upon a Time. I thought it was cool.
On her Aug. 11,2010 post:
"One of the specific questions I'm asked is 'do you ever change the show
to appeal to the audience, now that you have such immediate access to
what they do and don't want.' The answer I give to this is that I
consider myself to be the audience I'm writing for. I write what I
would want to see. Often, people are surprised by this. Not only am I
saying I ignore all those fans who are desperately telling me what they
want, but I'm also saying I'm writing for one very specific person who
may not be at all representative of who is actually watching. Well,
when you say it that way, it does sound crazy."
The post delves
into it more. I would agree with her. I will admit at times I have
written something, and then I would ask myself: "Would you want to watch
this?" I would say no. If I don't want to watch it, then who else
would?
http://www.janeespenson.com/
Pitching videos: I then found this old email where I did watch these videos on how to pitch your script.
http://www.sceneplay.net/pitch-fests-geof-troy/
Then I searched my blog and it turns out I did write about them before back in Sept. 2012:
http://thevertexfighter.blogspot.ca/search?q=sceneplay
Dec. 31 Published: I got published in the Edmonton Journal twice.
On Dec. 26, 2012, in the Food section, they published my blurb of the
best meal I had this year. It was at the Old Spaghetti Factory.
I also said the best movie of 2012 was Snow White and the Huntsman on Dec. 28, 2012.
Jan. 3 Song: I
was going through my notes and I had written down "Bonecracker" by
Shocore. It's a heavy metal song. I think it could be used for The Vertex Fighter during a fight scene.
I first heard this song back in 2001. It was on an episode of Smallville called "Leech." Shawn Ashmore (Ice man from X-Men movies) guest-starred in the ep. He gets in a fight with a jock.
I don't like heavy metal, but I like this song. You can dance to
it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fyh2sM2ZGv0
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