So You Want to Make a TV Show- 2nd Period- Class #4

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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."

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Rushedlike!

During the lecture

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Though she's pretty quick today.

React to the assignments

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[If you don't want to play it out, or if there's a post you need that hasn't gone up, feel free to handwave having done the assignment. Make it as easy or difficult as you want. Also, if there's anything of Dana's that might require modding (cell phone, computer), it's fair game, do with it what you will, just know if you break it she might fail your ass.]

Adora- I need fifty copies of this meeting agenda, now. No, I don't know where a copier is, just find one.
Jack- Stand there. No, don't say a word. Just stand by and wait for instructions.
Claire- Get me some old news articles on Larry Byrd from the library.
Hannibal- Pick up lunch. It's waiting for pickup at Ching Tai under 'Whitaker'. There's ten meals included, along with drinks.
Dinah- Drop off this film at the Photo Hut. We need it before the end of class, so I need you to get it back here before the hour's up.
Lois- I need a prop. Go get me a football we can use during the broadcast.
Robin- My cell phone's broken. Go take it wherever it goes to get repaired.
Jenny- Get me two skinny vanilla lattes. No, three. And make one of them regular. And one of them needs an extra shot of espresso in there.
Turtle- My computer's broken. I need you to call tech support and find out what's wrong with it. I keep getting error 4005's or something, I don't know.

Come back to class

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How'd your assignment go? Tell us handwavily or not how you did. (If you do play it out, please include a link so everyone else can read and glee.)

Talk to Dana

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Though she'll probably only make the answers to your assignment-related questions more confusing.

OOC

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If you haven't seen me whining about it yet, my Internet's being randomly weird. Some things are loading, and then they won't again, and it's all very frustrating and therefore any pings from me may or not be slow.