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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Re: Dscussion question

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Turtle sighed a little. "Soccer-that-they-call-football, but I don't think they do it to confuse us. It actually makes a lot more sense. I mean, you kick the ball. With your foot. While, in American football, you carry it with your hands and sometimes kick it with your foot. Soccer is true football, if you consider the technicalities, while American football is more...appendage ball."

Re: Dscussion question

[fear_of_fish]

"Oh, Turtle," Dana sighed, hanging her head dramatically. "I'm very sorry, but adopted cultural differences aside, I'm going to have to ask that in this class you call it soccer, because otherwise I'm going to develop a twitch in one eye, if not both, and none of us want that because you'll be distracted all through class."

Re: Dscussion question

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"I can do that!" Turtle said, with a burst of eagerness not only to please but to finally have a haven where she could take soccer, get a firm grip on it, and never, ever let go. "I can! See, soccer. Soccer, soccer, soccer. Soccer is a-okay with me."