Knowing what’s going on in the Writers Guild can be helpful in many, many ways, even if you aren’t a member. So, for your edification:
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Tag: online TV writing workshop
Cartoon: ‘Zits’ Inspects an Age Old Problem
And not just among teenagers either:
Want to stay a teenager all your life? Becoming a writer could be just the thing. Just try not to be this kind of writer:
Dawn McElligott: CSUN Says ‘Olé for Hollywood’
by Dawn McElligott
As the competition for students can be like a bullfight, Cal State University Northridge, (CSUN), seeks to rival UCLA and USC as the best place to pursue a degree in the entertainment industry. At the university whose mascot is “Matty the Matador,” Professor Scott Sturgeon agreed, “That’s where we want to go.”
Sturgeon explained that Professors Eric Edson and John Stahl had restructured the university’s film studies to be more competitive, resulting in part, in the Master of Fine Arts, Screenwriting Program, a division that Sturgeon now guides as an Associate Professor.
The MFA Program in Screenwriting a 42-unit endeavor, which entails two feature length screenplays and two half-hour scripts. Spec scripts and pilots are expected for both a one-hour show and half-hour shows.
Cartoon: ‘How to be Happy’
Grant Snider powers another one out of the park:
More of Grant Snider’s sensitive perception of humanity and creativity at Incidental Comics, HERE
Larry Brody’s 1st Episode of ‘Police Story’
by Larry Brody
Recently, while looking for elements to use in redesigning this site, I came across the following video on YouTube. None other than the first episode I ever wrote for the classic, multi-award winning NBC series Police Story.
I wrote the script for television’s only weekly police anthology series (different star cops every week with only the name of the police department, and the local bartender remaining the same, while I was freelancing back in the early 1970s. At that time drama shows didn’t have writers on staff. Not as writers anyway.
Story Editors, Story Consultants, even Executive Story Consultants, yes, and occasionally even Producers, but not as staff writers because that would have meant paying more than one or two writers per episode weekly minimums and, horror of horror, pension and health benefits per the WGA.