Roadie books/ Journey in Distribution/ Jane Espenson

Dec. 27 Roadie books: On Dec. 15, 2012, I was reading the Edmonton Journal, and there was an article about Faith Farthing's house.  She has her own editing business called FinalEyes Communications and Publishing business Roadie Books.  http://www.facebook.com/FinalEyesRoadie New directions: The Year of New Directions continues.  One email talked about my office job search.  Here's the one about the writing. TV production: I passed out my resume to every TV production company in Edmonton.  I finished after a month.  Then I applied to radio stations. I did job interviews at TV companies and met with producers.  I was on Linked In to connect with them. The Golden Vanguard: I had my movie reviews published on their website this year. Edmonton Journal: Yesterday I had a blurb about eating at the Old Spaghetti Factory published in the Edmonton Journal's food section.  In the newspaper, they were asking readers for their favorite meals, movies, and books of 2012.  I showed it to my family and told it to my friends on Facebook.  Dec. 29: I've been very productive because there's nothing on TV and not much job postings.  I turned to my TV production.  I started reading my Great American Screenwriter email newsletters. Movie Magic Screenwriter 6: This costs $250.  It has templates like Final Draft.  This page compares it to Final Draft, and it talks about how Movie Magic is different. http://www.screenplay.com/p-29-movie-magic-screenwriter-6.aspx Final Draft Software: This is a cool software program to help write your script.  I use Microsoft Word.  There's even a "Text to Speech" component where you can hear the computer read your script out loud with different male and female voices.  That's so cool.  It's for $169.  I'll stick with Microsoft Word and paper and pen. http://www.writersstore.com/final-draft-screenwriting-software?source=g-fd-international?cid=1820&gclid=CJa96ZvbwLQCFYN_Qgod-yMAGw Indiegogo: I recently discovered this from reading that newsletter.  This is where you can raise money for your campaign.  There's no fee or application process.  It's kind of like Kickstarter, but that is for creative projects.  I wrote about it on my blog before. This seems like an interesting and good site.  It says" You can raise money for anything, including for-profit ventures, creative ideas or personal needs."  It's located in San Francisco.  There's a picture of a sunglasses frame that says: "Go fund yourself."  lol. http://www.indiegogo.com/ http://thevertexfighter.blogspot.ca/2012/05/kickstarter-job-interview-goal.html Journey in Distribution: In the newsletter, there was this long article by Signe Olynyk about distribution and what she went through when she was getting her film Below Zero made. She discusses the difference between a sales agent and a distributor.  A sales agent is the middle man who is supposed to connect you with the distributor.  A distributor "are companies with the means to get your film into the world.  They often work with Sales Agents or Aggregators, and sell the rights they have to your film to VOD, DVD, cable, etc for a percentage." http://thevertexfighter.blogspot.ca/2012/12/a-filmmakers-harvest-journey-in.html Flashback: I'm kind of putting the cart before the horse right now.  I'm not in production right now for my The Vertex Fighter, but it's good to know some things in this industry.  It's kind of like that time when I went to the U of A for this "Salary negotiation" seminar in 2011.  I was going to all these job interviews, and I should learn something about salary negotiation because money is discussed during the interviews. Videoblocks.com: Also I got this newsletter about this website called Videoblocks.com.  It "is the first subscription-based resource for downloading royalty-free stock footage, motion backgrounds, production music, sound effects, After Effects templates and more." I saw some of the footage, and they're really good high production value.  This could inspire me to write something. http://www.videoblocks.com/ Stage 32: From the newsletters, I discovered Stage 32.  It's a social networking site for people in the TV or theater industry.  It's a pretty good website if you want to connect with other people in the industry for your projects.  However, I'm going to stick with Linked In and my TV contacts there. http://www.stage32.com/blog Jane Espenson: I was on Stage 32, and it lead me to Jane Espenson's website.  She's a Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel writer.  She's now writing for Once Upon a Time.  I thought it was cool.  On her Aug. 11,2010 post: "One of the specific questions I'm asked is 'do you ever change the show to appeal to the audience, now that you have such immediate access to what they do and don't want.' The answer I give to this is that I consider myself to be the audience I'm writing for. I write what I would want to see. Often, people are surprised by this. Not only am I saying I ignore all those fans who are desperately telling me what they want, but I'm also saying I'm writing for one very specific person who may not be at all representative of who is actually watching. Well, when you say it that way, it does sound crazy." The post delves into it more.  I would agree with her.  I will admit at times I have written something, and then I would ask myself: "Would you want to watch this?"  I would say no.  If I don't want to watch it, then who else would? http://www.janeespenson.com/ Pitching videos: I then found this old email where I did watch these videos on how to pitch your script. http://www.sceneplay.net/pitch-fests-geof-troy/ Then I searched my blog and it turns out I did write about them before back in Sept. 2012: http://thevertexfighter.blogspot.ca/search?q=sceneplay Dec. 31 Published: I got published in the Edmonton Journal twice.  On Dec. 26, 2012, in the Food section, they published my blurb of the best meal I had this year.  It was at the Old Spaghetti Factory. I also said the best movie of 2012 was Snow White and the Huntsman on Dec. 28, 2012. Jan. 3 Song: I was going through my notes and I had written down "Bonecracker" by Shocore.  It's a heavy metal song.  I think it could be used for The Vertex Fighter during a fight scene. I first heard this song back in 2001.  It was on an episode of Smallville called "Leech."  Shawn Ashmore (Ice man from X-Men movies) guest-starred in the ep.  He gets in a fight with a jock. I don't like heavy metal, but I like this song.  You can dance to it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fyh2sM2ZGv0