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fandomhigh2009-01-25 09:09 pm
fear_of_fish) wrote in fandomhigh2009-01-25 09:09 pm
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So You Want to Make a TV Show- 2nd Period- Class #4
When everyone had shown up and taken a seat, Dana started out by warning, "Don't get too comfortable. You're not going to be here long. Now, we're going to start doing some hands-on work here in class, and this means we have to start from the beginning. Also known as the very bottom. Welcome to the life of the production assistant.
"The production assistants are also known as gophers, because they go for everything. They're the ones we send on errands, make do the menial labor that won't get us in trouble, send off to do the little boring stuff we don't have time to do or just don't want to because we have PA's. It's sometimes hard work, sometimes extremely, extremely boring, you don't always have the information you need and have to improvise to get it right because you'd better get it right, and to top it all off, it pays like crap. It's what we call 'paying your dues'. No, I never had to do it, if you're wondering, but I know plenty of people who have so that makes it better." No, it didn't.
"What I have for you today is a list of assignments that I picked at random, out of a hat, and assigned to your names," she said, walking around to hand every student an index card with their assignment on it. You have until the end of class to get them done. Be back here by then, and if lunch gets here, then you have something to take with you. Now go. Shoo. Get it done."
"The production assistants are also known as gophers, because they go for everything. They're the ones we send on errands, make do the menial labor that won't get us in trouble, send off to do the little boring stuff we don't have time to do or just don't want to because we have PA's. It's sometimes hard work, sometimes extremely, extremely boring, you don't always have the information you need and have to improvise to get it right because you'd better get it right, and to top it all off, it pays like crap. It's what we call 'paying your dues'. No, I never had to do it, if you're wondering, but I know plenty of people who have so that makes it better." No, it didn't.
"What I have for you today is a list of assignments that I picked at random, out of a hat, and assigned to your names," she said, walking around to hand every student an index card with their assignment on it. You have until the end of class to get them done. Be back here by then, and if lunch gets here, then you have something to take with you. Now go. Shoo. Get it done."
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