MY FIRST JOB IN TELEVISION: STAND-IN FOR A DOG Talk about starting at the bottom: my first job in TV included standing in for a dog while they adjusted the lighting for a dog food commercial. Yep, there I was, an honors graduate of a top flight university, down on my hands and knees
ALUMNI INTERVIEW: MOLLY WILSON What was your major and when did you graduate? TV Production/Broadcast Journalism – 2007 Where do you work now? I work at Warner Bros. Television in Current Programming What do you like most about your job? I love the fast pace the world of TV offers. The problems
Here's a link to a great round table discussion where some of today's top TV writer/producers reveal how they do it on a daily basis. Roundtable: Seth MacFarlane, Ryan Murphy, Chuck Lorre, Doug Ellin, Steve Levitan, Linda Wallem — Th livefeed.hollywoodreporter.com By Matthew Belloni "This place looks like Johnny Sack's office," Seth MacFarlane noted at
A team of Chapman University students has placed first in the American Advertising Federation's National Student Advertising Competition, the university announced. They beat out 120 teams nationwide including finalists from Texas State University, the University of Wisconsin and University of Nebraska. ADVERTISEMENT More from Business 'Hundreds of thousands' lose jobless aid Jesse James
Chapman University’s Ad Club just won the entire NSAC competition, placing first at the National level! Congratulations to the entire team, faculty advisor Cory O’Connor, and the dedicated Chapman fans throughout the campus: you’ve all worked so hard – you deserve it! What is the NSAC? It’s the National Student Advertising Competition, a national program
A TV SERIES BASED ON TWITTER POSTINGS? AT CBS??? Yep – that’s exactly what this fall will bring. CBS has ordered a half-hour comedy for fall based on the popular series of Twitter postings &*$! My Dad Says. At first blush, this seems crazy – using something as slight as Twitter postings to
TV Students Robert Amidon and Ashley Young are off to Korea with Prof. James Gardner as part of a Korean exchange program where Chapman students make a short film with Korean students from Seoul Institute of the Arts, then the Korean students come to Orange and make a film with the Chapman Students! Television students
Project is from Chris Borrelli; helmer Kasper Barfoed attached THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER By Borys Kit June 3, 2010, 11:00 PM ET Exclusive Media Group's Hammer Films has picked up "Wake," a spec script by Chris Borrelli, with Kasper Barfoed attached to direct. Producers include Circle of Confusion's David Alpert and Stephen Emery, Chris Cowles and
CREATING YOUR OWN TV SERIES For professional TV writers the Holy Grail is creating your own series – coming up with the concept and characters, pitching and selling it to a network, writing and producing the pilot, then making it to the fall schedule – and hopefully 10 years on the air. Here at Chapman,
Jeff Levering (TBJ, 2005) is one of alums working in sports. Jeff chose the hyper-competitive field of play-by-play, passing on easier paths with Fox Sports and the NFL Network. And in a few short years Jeff has made it to second base, landing the play-by-play gig with the Springfield Cardinals, the AA-affil of the St
My friend Neil Landau (author of the hot new book 101 Things I Learned in Film School – check it out) says that to make it in the entertainment industry, you need luck. BUT: Neil has a very specific definition of luck. It’s LUCK = PREPAREDNESS + OPPORTUNITY. You never know when opportunity might knock,
Dean Bassett gave a heartfelt introduction to this year's Cecil Awards, mentioning – among other things – the exciting developments coming to Dodge College, including the advent of 3D and the inclusion of a 3D production class in next year's course catalog. Finally, he asked everyone in the theater to turn, stand, and congratulate the