WRITER’S BLOCK? NO SUCH THING IN TV
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
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
Comic-Con Success!
Last week, Comic-Con, the largest comics-themed festival in the western hemisphere, once again descended upon San Diego. The convention, which has been celebrated annually since it's creation in 1970, marks the pinnacle of summer's cult conventions, drawing attendees from all over the world, flooding the hotels of downtown San Diego, congesting traffic throughout the region,
Rock band films video at Orange High
ORANGE An alternative-rock band fronted by an Orange resident this weekend was filming its first music video with the help of Chapman University film students and a member of the TV show “The Waltons.'' The group, SLIDE, used Orange High School as a backdrop for the video, based on a song the group recorded with an
CHAPMAN TV WRITER WINS $10,000 HUMANITAS PRIZE
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
Amazon offers students free Prime access
Students, tired of the beginning of the semester crunch? It's a familiar scene, at Universities across the country: every year, hundreds of students pour into the bookstore in the first days of school, swelling the courtyards and bogging down your schedule with aimless waiting. You plan ahead of time, print lists of the classes you're
Can Creativity be Taught?
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
BackGround Acting: LA - The Visitor (Chapman Univ)
After a late-night shoot in Las Vegas kept me up nearly to dawn back in March 2009, I got a really cool phone call from a young director at Chapman University in Los Angeles. I had been on set in Las Vegas until
The Crowd: Thousands donated to Chapman students
Luncheon co-chairwoman Donna Calvert, outgoing Fashionable Women of Chapman President Charlene Prager, Dodge College of Film and Media Arts Dean Bob Bassett, luncheon co-chairwoman Donna Bunce, Neiman Marcus Director of Public Relations Michaele Hall. (Daily Pilot / June 30, 2010) The Fashionable Women of Chapman University presented an impressive check for $236,000 to Chapman Dean Bob Bassett at
Social Media Day
That’s right – after hearing, living, and sharing social media for the past few years, the world’s online community has finally birthed a day of special recognition for the burgeoning field of social media, cleverly titled “Social Media Day.” What is it? Essentially, it’s a non-government-affiliated holiday, featuring “meetups” (the godchild of last year’s “tweetups”)
Chapman grad opens new boutique in Orange
Usually people go to New York City to pursue careers in fashion. Lauren Miller went the opposite way. A native of Diamond Bar, Miller, 26, studied advertising and public relations at Chapman University. She followed that with a degree in fashion design at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City. Missing
My First Job in Television: Stand in for a Dog!
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