Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Self-indulgent credit sequence
I used to crack the hell up when I'd watch those old cartoons and comedy spoofs lampooning TV shows or movies in which the entire credit sequence featured one name. You know..."Written, directed, produced, starring, and edited by...[ INSERT NAME ]." I swore if I ever got into sow biz that I'd never venture down such a narcissistic path. Well, label me a hypocrite. And feel free to throw tomatoes...now.
I'm actually kinda stoked to have my namesake prominently adorning the credit sequence for the end-of-year "Top 10 Stories of 2006" special we're producing. After a short brainstorming session in which my executive producer, news director and I hacked out the general flow of the show - in about 75 seconds, we're slick like that - a few more semantic ideas I threw out were met with, "Well...you just wanna write it?", meaning scripting out the entire thirty-minute special. Nice.
I've written entire shows before, and I've produced segments all myself, but this is the first time the whole shebang is under me. It's actually quite fun trying to bang this out betwixt the Christmas parties, kiddies running around, surprise court rulings that spring up, and all the other junk we do on a daily basis. It's proven to be quite the challenge listening to hours of soundbytes, rummaging through eons of digital video, and hitting our internal search engine way more than I've ever done before. And writing everyone's parts is also a fun change from the daily rigors of software development. So look for our special soon on KUAM-TV and KUAM.com, it's going to be a good show.
And please...stick around for the credits.
**UPDATE**
Here's the special!
I'm actually kinda stoked to have my namesake prominently adorning the credit sequence for the end-of-year "Top 10 Stories of 2006" special we're producing. After a short brainstorming session in which my executive producer, news director and I hacked out the general flow of the show - in about 75 seconds, we're slick like that - a few more semantic ideas I threw out were met with, "Well...you just wanna write it?", meaning scripting out the entire thirty-minute special. Nice.
I've written entire shows before, and I've produced segments all myself, but this is the first time the whole shebang is under me. It's actually quite fun trying to bang this out betwixt the Christmas parties, kiddies running around, surprise court rulings that spring up, and all the other junk we do on a daily basis. It's proven to be quite the challenge listening to hours of soundbytes, rummaging through eons of digital video, and hitting our internal search engine way more than I've ever done before. And writing everyone's parts is also a fun change from the daily rigors of software development. So look for our special soon on KUAM-TV and KUAM.com, it's going to be a good show.
And please...stick around for the credits.
**UPDATE**
Here's the special!
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