"Write the parade"
The one thing I love about my job is the endless opportunities it affords me, giving me infinite avenues in which to create ideas and show off my stuff to a vast audience. I got an interesting little assignment tonight:
Me: Is there anything I can do to help lighten the workload?
Bri: Write the parade.
I'm on it like the Green Hornet. I'm now the head writer for our live broadcast of the 2007 Guam Liberation Day Parade. Sabrina and I will be hosting our coverage, which is about 3 hours of talking, bantering, interviewing, throwing to field reporters, relating people, dates and places, and making off-the-cuff trivial references about the event, about our community, about the significance of it all and hopefully segue it all together coherently. (Had I knew I could make a career out of yapping endlessly, I would have spared my parents the money they put up for college.)
I've previously done full-length writing for other productions we've done, but not a live telecast. This is somewhat easier, but then also a helluva lot harder. For example, when we produce an entire night's election coverage, we'll collaboratively script out 7 hours worth of dialogue, knowing full well that 20 minutes into it we'll chuck it all out the window and start hardcore ad-libbing. This is probably going to be the same thing. It's that intense.
The big thing is to just describe what we see and let people know what the atmosphere is like. Because the broadcast will also be simulcast on our AM radio station, we can't write exclusively for a visual audience, so we have to add the extra detailed dimension. I credit my experience with doing soundseeing tours on podcasts as being able to pull this off. It's a really daunting challenge, but really fun.
It's the farthest thing from brain surgery...but a lot harder than it looks.
Hope you tune in! :-)
Me: Is there anything I can do to help lighten the workload?
Bri: Write the parade.
I'm on it like the Green Hornet. I'm now the head writer for our live broadcast of the 2007 Guam Liberation Day Parade. Sabrina and I will be hosting our coverage, which is about 3 hours of talking, bantering, interviewing, throwing to field reporters, relating people, dates and places, and making off-the-cuff trivial references about the event, about our community, about the significance of it all and hopefully segue it all together coherently. (Had I knew I could make a career out of yapping endlessly, I would have spared my parents the money they put up for college.)
I've previously done full-length writing for other productions we've done, but not a live telecast. This is somewhat easier, but then also a helluva lot harder. For example, when we produce an entire night's election coverage, we'll collaboratively script out 7 hours worth of dialogue, knowing full well that 20 minutes into it we'll chuck it all out the window and start hardcore ad-libbing. This is probably going to be the same thing. It's that intense.
The big thing is to just describe what we see and let people know what the atmosphere is like. Because the broadcast will also be simulcast on our AM radio station, we can't write exclusively for a visual audience, so we have to add the extra detailed dimension. I credit my experience with doing soundseeing tours on podcasts as being able to pull this off. It's a really daunting challenge, but really fun.
It's the farthest thing from brain surgery...but a lot harder than it looks.
Hope you tune in! :-)
posted by Jason Salas @ 8:17 PM
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