CURRENT STUDENT INTERVIEW: KIRA INNES What is your major and when will you graduate? I’m a double major in Television and PR/Ad. I graduate in May of 2011! What is your ultimate career goal? I am extremely passionate about scripted television. During my time at Chapman, I was able to intern in a
It's been said that history is just one damned thing after another. But when it comes to History of Television, it's one super cool thing after another. Today in class we watched clips from: The Ed Sullivan Show, including musical performances by Elvis Presley (and his swivelling hips), The Beatles, The Doors, James Brown, The
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:”Calibri”,”sans-serif”; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} Madelyn Jarrett (TBJ ’07) was just promoted to weekend
NEW SCHOOL YEAR, NEW POSSIBILITIES It’s that time of year again – the week before school starts back up. It’s a hectic time – professors like me scrambling to get syllabi and lecture notes ready, students are scrambling to move back into dorms or apartments and stock up on textbooks and Ramen noodles. But most
When you're hot, you're hot. And narrative TV at Chapman is hot! For the second year in a row, our flagship project, a full-length TV pilot, was nominated as Outstanding Drama at the NYTV Festival to be held Sept. 20-25. What's amazing about our success is that this is not merely a student competition, but
WRITER’S BLOCK? NO SUCH THING IN TV Most successful TV shows make 22-24 episodes per season – the equivalent in terms of length of writing and shooting 6-12 feature films in about 9 months. Because of this, a TV writer’s life is all about constant deadlines and meeting them come hell or high water. Writer’s
ALUMNI INTERVIEW: MILES LEICHER What was your major and when did you graduate? I started out as a Film Production major, but switched to Television Production and Broadcast Journalism after my freshman year. I received an honorable discharge (graduated) in May 2007. Where do you work now? For most of the year I work on
Less than two months after graduating, Chapman TV and Screenwriting student Clay Keller has won the $10,000 David & Lynn Angell Comedy Writing Fellowship for his original pilot script "Dinner Theater." The script was written by Clay for his FTV 328 Seminar in Television Writing course. The fellowship, part of the prestigious Humanitas Awards for excellence
As someone who teaches TV writing and producing at one of the world’s premier film schools I get asked certain questions all the time: How do you get an agent? (subject for another blog post) How do you break into TV? (see blog of 6/9/2010) Can creativity be taught? The answer to this last question
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