So You Want to Make a TV Show- 2nd Period- Class #3

[fear_of_fish]

As soon as everyone was seated, Dana started with, "Anyone who cops to calling me yesterday gets detention. Don't be that stupid. Now that we have that out of the way, this week we're going to be discussing what kind of show you want to do.

"I'll spoil it for you: you're going to be putting together a sports show. Sometimes when you get into this business, you have to take the job that comes to you. Maybe you wanted to work on some cable news show and have to cut your teeth at MTV. It'll happen. Take the experience, learn what you can, and when another opportunity comes, you can move on. Now, you might be saying 'I don't know anything about sports,'" Dana went on. "You're missing out, but that's beside the point. You will pick up things in the course of the job. If you don't, you're not really listening. Lingo will get to you, you'll start recognizing names, and after a while you might actually be able to sound like you know what you're talking about when you're watching a game with your friends, even if you only know it from a technical aspect.

"What we're going to do today is go around the room, and you're going to tell us what you know about sports right now. What's your favorite? Why? Do you play? Why not? And then you're going to get together- or work singly, I don't care- and come up with reasons why you think why working on a sports show might be harder or easier than working at CNN or a Comedy Central news show. Anything you can come up with. Once you know the problems- and believe me, you will run into them- you can start to tackle them. No pun intended."

As Dana took a seat at her desk, she said, "Oh, and don't get too used to this sort of class. Next week I start giving you assignments. Oh, wait, I lied. For homework this week, I want each of you to catch a game. I don't care what kind. Football, curling, whatever you saw, just see something to get some more experience than you do this week."

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[fear_of_fish]

Pair up or work alone, figuring out why a sports show might be harder or easier than another type of show. Dana'll love you iif you add in stuff about your own strengths and weaknesses.

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[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

Hannibal took a seat and waited for a partner, mentally making notes on why sports shows would be easier while he waited.

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[fabulous-secret.livejournal.com]

Adora took a seat by Hannibal and tried to look very serious about the topic. "So sports, easy or hard?"

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[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Depends on the sport," he said, smiling brightly at her. "In the realm of television, probably a little bit of both."

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[fabulous-secret.livejournal.com]

Adora nodded, "The news seems like it would be very straightforward, but with sports you never know who will win the game."

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[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"And there's a lot of different sports with different rules and different teams," he said, still grinning at her. "Packing it into one show would be tough."

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[fabulous-secret.livejournal.com]

"And you'd have to know the difference between all of them," she continued, finding his grin too cute. She almost wished she could stop smiling at him. "Which, for some of us, would be a great deal of work."

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[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Unless you hook up with someone that knows a lot about sports." Which meant hook up with him. Because he knew a lot about sports. Really. "No sports where you're from?"

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[fabulous-secret.livejournal.com]

"Some, but not the same," Adora told him. "And hooking up with someone would be very useful, especially as there seems to be two or more on all these shows, no?" Someone had been doing her homework.

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[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle already had a few ideas jotted down (it compromised her ethics a little, but she felt her idea about a very pretty, potentially big-breasted woman being involved was a very good one), and looked around to see if anyone else wanted to share in her glory.

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[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Turtle?" Dinah sat down with a smile, then a frown. "You didn't call me this weekend about Puritan rock, did you." It really wasn't a question, but Dinah *did* want to be sure.

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[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle took a second to think back.

"Ohh, was that you?"

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[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Maybe?" Dinah raised her eyebrows, shaking her head. "I tried to call you back, just before I realized the phones were screwed up. But I couldn't figure out what that was about." She smiled. "Does that happen a lot around here? Like the washers?"

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[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"It's happened before," Turtle said with a shrug of her shoulders. "You get used to thinks randomly going funky after a while."

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[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah shook her head again. "I'm liking it too much to leave, but wow, it's unnerving." She picked up a pencil, then said, "Okay, work work work. Harder things about a sports show. Hmmm."

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[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle looked at Dinah for a moment with an arched brow. "If phones acting weird is unnerving," she said, "I don't know how you plan on lasting."

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[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah turned red, remembering some of the messages she got, and her talk with Chuck. "I just... you know. Not being able to depend on things. The washers and the disappearing clothes were worse."

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[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"Man. After all that planning..." Jack slumped in his chair, wondering if he'd have to do this solo.

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[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Maybe we could adapt our plans?"

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[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"Hey! Yeah, I think we'll have to. And maybe talk to Turtle again," he mused.

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[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Robin nodded. "We could maybe try to make some music videos, or write some sports related sketches. Oh! Should we focus on any particular sport?"

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[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"I dunno. What's curling?" Like...hair styling?

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[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Robin had no clue. "Uhm, as sport?" He'd never heard of it, and it showed.

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[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"I dunno. Maybe we should ask around?"

Like he knew crazy Canadian sports involving ice and broom.

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[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"I'm sure someone will know. Why do you ask?"