Who You Gonna Call?
Scott writes: I really enjoy your blog, it’s entertaining and informative. I do have one question to which I could not find the answer after going through your past blogs. I’m pretty new to all this so; when cold calling from Production Notices, like this one: “THE CAPE” Pilot / NBC 02-11-10 BERMANBRAUN STATUS – […]
Cold Calling, and Music Videos
Reader Yoshi writes: One major thing you’ve omitted is getting work on commercials and music videos. I got all these leads off various sources, but I’m not sure what the protocol is when cold calling them, since you’re not calling a p.o.. Who do I ask for and what do I say? I wish I […]
Code Talker
I am, by nature, a complainer. It’s a personality flaw, I know. At least I try to be funny about it, right? I try not to complain at the office, though. For one thing, it does no good. For another, others start to see you as a negative person, and they won’t want you around. […]
I Don’t Wanna Be That Guy
They say you hate in other what you hate most about yourself. I recently came off a show where I had one of the worst bosses of my entire life. Besides having the emotional maturity of a four year old (he once yelled at the script coordinator for bringing him pages, when we had just […]
Good Mornin’
You work strange hours when you’re making a TV show (or a movie, for that matter). You’ll come in at 7:00 one day and 10:30 the next. Sometimes you’re there for twelve hours, sometimes sixteen. You just never know. One artifact of this, I believe, is that “morning” is whenever call time is, be it […]