So, I apply for a lot of jobs on Craigslist that I’m sure other people are applying for too. I’m curious about how other editors format their resumes and what sort of reels they’re giving out. I mean, I just have no idea what my competition is like or how many people apply for any …
Category Archive: Editing
Oct 26 2009
Lost Weekend
I had a weekend that was no good for writing. I’ve set myself a deadline of end of Thanksgiving holiday for a rewrite of Bible Con and a Polished first draft of Dyke for a Day. I had time to work on it this weekend because all of my editing projects are floating in nebulous …
Oct 22 2009
Segment Producer: Ups and Downs
I got a segment producer credit instead of story assistant because of the sheer amount of work I’ve done on the show I’ve been working on. This is super exciting, it’s a great credit. Of course, I’m still making less than a living wage. But there’s some hope that that will change by the end …
Oct 13 2009
A Day in the Life of a Reality TV Story Assistant
Get to work at 10 AM. The Company Head Editor (CHE) comes to talk to the Story Producer (SP). SP arrives a little late, usually. CHE (to SP): Your editor won’t be back for the rest of the show. Me: I can edit. CHE ignores me. Continues talking to SP. CHE: So I’m going to …
Oct 07 2009
Female Filmmakers; Women Directors
There’s an interesting article over at Film School Rejects which basically lists about a hundred films directed by women. Now, I do appreciate that there are not very many women directors, or at least, not a lot of successful ones, but I do think that it’s useful to look at the entire field of filmmaking. …
Oct 05 2009
First Act: Complete
First acts are probably the easiest. And I write short anyway. This one clocks in at exactly 22 pages, written in just over a week. 9 days coming out to over 2 pages a day, though that’s certainly not how it was written. 12 last weekend, 10 this weekend. Nothing like my 15 page a …
Sep 28 2009
Busy Weekend; Bad day for a Migraine
Friday was crazy. I got asked to write a pilot by a web producer, to write a polished first act of a feature for a manager, to edit a short, to add something to a reel, and that it’s possible that I will be promoted to Assistant Editor in January and that I will be …
Sep 25 2009
A real person read my script
We’ll call these people S and T. S is a manager/producer type, T is S’s assistant. F, my creative partner, has a connection with S, in that she really loved Prombies!, the short he and I made that was about erections turning boys into zombies, and she has been in touch with him a couple …
Sep 17 2009
Story Assistant
Yesterday was a strange up and down day. My job is in a state of change, and I’m not quite sure what the outcome will be. It seems likely that I will be promoted to Story Assistant, which would be fantastic. That’s a sort of cross between editing and writing assistant, which is rather perfect …
Sep 16 2009
Up and Down; Script, Web Series, Inktip; Allergies
So the webseries thing keeps ping ponging back and forth between happening and not happening. If it does happen, I’m probably going to lose my Thanksgiving. Theoretically also my Christmas, except I’m not willing to give up my Christmas and my Thanksgiving. So. There’s another short that I’ve been contacted about. I just got the …
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Kate Donovan
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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