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Disney/ABC Writing Program Announces Changes in Its Application Process
Direct from the Disney ABC Creative Talent Development Facebook page: (And if you can’t believe FB, who can you believe?)
ATTENTION POTENTIAL WRITING PROGRAM APPLICANTS!!! This year’s application process will be different from previous years. In addition to your application, submissions must include TWO writing samples: 1) An original pilot script that captures your unique tone, style and point of view, and 2) A spec script for a cable or broadcast series airing during the 2013-14 television season. We advise you to select a series that is well-established in at least its second season. This second sample should demonstrate your ability to adapt to an existing format while at the same time infusing your unique point of view and sensibility. Both samples MUST be live-action content. We do not accept animation samples.
WGAW April 2014 Calendar of Events
So’s you can hang in all the right places at all the right times:
Click HERE for the, um, Clickable Version
Leesa Dean: Adventures of a Web Series Newbie
Chapter 52: Miley Cyrus Stomped My Face
by Leesa Dean
So first, Kai and I postponed, or rather I did. We were supposed to meet to discuss the networking project but I’ve just been too swamped in post.
And when I say “post” I mean, not only the usual (editing, keying, color correcting, etc) but also animating. Part of the TOP SECRET PROJECT involves not only animation but a little live action footage, integrated in an unusual way and it’s been kicking my BEHIND. Definitely the most challenging thing I’ve ever done.
I’m hoping I’ll be finished with this phase of it by early next week. Kai and I will be meeting then, in any case.
Meanwhile, there’s been a bunch of stuff going on in the web community. For starters, and you probably heard this, Disney purchased Maker for $500 million clams. Which is…while not unexpected, a little disturbing. And not for the usual reasons. (Animators call Disney “Mouse-chwitz” where they’re known to say, “If you don’t come into work Saturday, don’t even THINK about coming into work Sunday.”)
The WGA’s Official Announcement of Its Impending Agreement with the AMPTP
In their own writerly words, distributed in an email sent to members. Just in case you missed it:
To our colleagues,