Monday, November 11, 2019
Create Content for Nightly "Episodics"
Senior Promo Writer/Producer (Promos)
Apply Now Apply Later Job ID 696267BR Location Los Angeles, California, United States Business Walt Disney Television Date posted Sep. 25, 2019Job Summary:
Walt
Disney Television is seeking a Sr. Writer/Producer Promotions for Jimmy
Kimmel Live. The Sr. Writer/Producer should inspire the rest of the
team with their concepts and their command of the art of promotion and
marketing.
The Sr. Writer Producer Kimmel is responsible for working with strategy and creative teams in developing and creating all video assets to promote Kimmel including nightly episodics (Mon – Thurs), generic spots, targeted spot, sizzle reels, brand campaigns, shoot spots.
The Sr. Writer Producer deeply engages with show team and program executive on weekly calls to align on priorities, messaging, guests, etc. Ideally this role integrates with Kimmel show staff who oversee Kimmel social media accounts to further refine marketing messages/asset on the social accounts.
The Sr. Writer Producer Kimmel is responsible for working with strategy and creative teams in developing and creating all video assets to promote Kimmel including nightly episodics (Mon – Thurs), generic spots, targeted spot, sizzle reels, brand campaigns, shoot spots.
The Sr. Writer Producer deeply engages with show team and program executive on weekly calls to align on priorities, messaging, guests, etc. Ideally this role integrates with Kimmel show staff who oversee Kimmel social media accounts to further refine marketing messages/asset on the social accounts.
Responsibilities:
- Write and produce short form/promo content for broadcast
- Utilize writing skills and present multiple concepts for each assignment
- Stay ahead of the curve on current industry trends and competitive scheduling and creative
- Pitch ideas or campaigns and participate in brainstorming meetings
- Work with research and marketing to understand target demos
- Communicate concepts to graphics designers, composers, storyboard artists, etc. and supervise execution
- Responsible for leading and executing ideas and concepts that are relevant, innovative and push the envelope
- Shoot and Direct talent on location
- Consistently produce work that meets and exceeds objectives
- Serve as a creative problem solver on network schedule changes and last minute communications
Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum 8+ years of experience writing and producing spots for a broadcast or cable television network, a movie trailer house or an ad agency
- Experience working on live spots highly desired
- Experience in comedy highly desired.
- Working knowledge of editing systems and workflows
- Experience supervising editing sessions and directing the editor
- Ability to effectively direct voiceover talent
- Ability to creatively problem solve
- MUST be able to work on multiple projects at once
- MUST be able to work under pressure, to tight deadlines and manage own time
- Have excellent time management skills
- Has an understanding of marketing concepts and brand management
- Understands the target demo and how to speak to them
- Understands all phases of pre-production, production and post-production
- Demonstrates excellent people skills
- Demonstrates strong work ethic
- Ability to develop credibility and strong working relationships in a complex organization
Required Education
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experiencePreferred Education
Advanced degree in Visual Arts or advertisingAbout Walt Disney Television:
Walt Disney Television (WDT) redefines the future of media and entertainment. Delivering compelling creative, great storytelling, ground-breaking technology, high-impact marketing and innovative distribution, WDT offers multiple opportunities to build a career that supports entertaining and informing the world. A key unit of The Walt Disney Company, one of the world's most admired vertically integrated media enterprises, WDT includes global live action and animation entertainment, news, owned television stations, and radio. If you've got a passion to join our team of talented professionals we want to hear your story.About The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise with the following business segments: media networks, parks and resorts, studio entertainment, consumer products and interactive media. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.This position is with American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., which is part of a business segment we call Walt Disney Television.
American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Disney fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.
Update from EE
Hey there,
I used to be more regular in writing stuff like this. But I don't anymore because it gets people worrying. They don't need to and there's no need to call. I write this because I have found it to be helpful for others to know they are not alone in what they're going through. That said, I want to make sure you saw what I wrote this morning at The Resurgent. Here goes:
I have been in a depressed state for some time. Honestly, it hit some time this past spring as I was ferrying my wife to an emergency room for the third straight day. She’s fine. But it dawned on me that I was not. She’s in the ER with the flu and lung cancer, but testing negative for the flu all the same, and the doctors are freaked out. The cancer is not the problem, but these are not her normal doctors. And I’m trying to find a cell signal to check in on the news.
She was fine. I was not. I’ve become deeply unable to unplug and my stress levels have been rising. I was planning a conference with the Vice President. I was launching a new radio show. I was maintaining a current radio show. I was trying to fundraise to finish paying off the conference and fundraise to start the new radio show. I couldn’t unplug.
I don’t know when it happened. It’s like the first gray hair. One day you’re standing, staring in the mirror. You’re fatter than you were. You’re older than you were. And there it is. That gray hair that had not been there before. At least I have hair.
Then more comes. In the same way, you wake up a bit haggard with a head swimming full of agenda items and stare at yourself in the mirror and see the boss staring back at you. How the hell did this happen? Instead of turning to your left to ask the man in charge what to do, you’re the man in charge and everyone to the right of you is looking for what to do. Damned if I know what to do.
I just want to sit at the keyboard and write. I want to turn on the microphone and talk. Suddenly I’ve got all this other stuff and I’m the man in charge. I’m that gray hair and I plucked that gray hair the first time I saw it. Damn.
I don’t have a real business sense. I write. I talk. I can balance a checkbook and pay a bill. But I hate it. As I’ve been drawn in more and more to starting a show, running a show, running a site, managing a family, and caring for others I at some point realized I was pretty isolated.
I, and oh my gosh all these paragraphs keep starting with I, I used to be in a Bible Study. We called ourselves the Dead Theologians Society. We only read dead theologians lest one of them wind up like Rob Bell. Dead guys can’t become heretics. Their only evolution is into dust. The Bible Study wound down. Friends moved away. That just freed up more time for me to be in the office. Conversations with friends became work conversations. Life conversations did not much happen. If not work conversations, they were political conversations. So I cooked. I got fatter. But I grilled, smoked, baked, fried, and otherwise spent mind-numbing amounts of time in the kitchen exhausting myself because otherwise, the siren call of the home office would find me drawn in. Work is my comfort zone.
Until this year, at least I had seminary. But independent study for a Ph.D. while launching a conference and a new show proved too much. A classroom, at least, provided a few hours of distraction from the outside world. I loved it, but couldn’t afford to keep going to RTS with debts, medical bills, show costs, etc.
Having gotten through the conference in August, I took one week off then launched a new radio show. I am self-syndicating. I am my own affiliate relations, ad sales department, and funder. I now talk for five hours every weekday on the radio. Every penny to pay all the costs comes from what I have in the bank to run this site or out of my own pocket. That’s why it was no easy call to cancel our conference.
But that actually gets me to where this rambling preamble is going. I know there are those who think there must be some ulterior motive or hidden reason for canceling the conference and if there is, it is this — I don’t know that I know what the hell I’m doing anymore, but I know I don’t want to take other people’s money and shill for something or promote something just to get a conference going. Put more bluntly, I didn’t want a Trump rally and that’s what it would have had to become to make it financially work next year. I can’t do it.
See, here’s what I’m realizing — I don’t have all the answers and I’m not sure I have a lot of confidence in the answers and abilities I do have these days, but I know I don’t want to be entangled to a lot of other interests that might restrict me from being able to say what I think when I think I get to the answer. I get all sorts of people around me trying to sell me stuff and make money off me and I don’t know that I’m the guy to make myself rich, let alone other people. I just want to write and talk into a microphone and make sure other people know they aren’t alone.
I just don’t have all the answers people seem to think I do and we’re at peak paranoia where any deviation from tribal orthodoxy is met with suspicion and presumption that there must be something more there. The reality is I hate all the tribes these days. They are all run by a bunch of dimwits who just want power or to be adjacent to power. They’ve got no ideas, few principles left, and rely on a bunch of bullies on social media to keep everyone else in line. To hell with that. I don’t have enough time in the day to be that devoid of independent thought and have no desire to have people I disagree with shut up, censored, taken off TV, or hounded off Twitter by a mob.
As an aside, it is really just garbage to have a bunch of friends hate each other online these days so much that you’d prefer to have nothing to do with any of them lest you get dragged into middle school drama. If I wasn’t isolated enough before, this makes me kind of glad to be in Middle Georgia away from pretty much everyone I know outside of my immediate family.
I’m watching this impeachment stuff play out and I have a lot of friends screaming the President needs to be impeached, there is an impeachable quid pro quo, and the whistleblower needs to be protected. And they’re screaming at friends of mine.
I have a lot of friends who think this is a witch hunt, the President should not be impeached, there is no quid pro quo, and the whistleblower needs to be destroyed. And they’re screaming at friends of mine.
I’m processing it like everyone else. I don’t have all the answers. I think there probably was a quid pro quo, the whistleblower should be public, and the President probably needs to face the voters over this and not a bunch of Democrats who’ve wanted him gone since day one, especially since the election is less than a year away and half the Democrats would vote to impeach the President if he cured cancer because of the economic impact on oncology research.
I also know a whole lot of people will switch positions when the next Democrat becomes President because all this “rule of law” talk is really about hating the guy who was not supposed to win and Bob Mueller didn’t offer up the silver bullet they were expecting. On top of that, there’ll be plenty of Democrats who excuse the exact same sort of behavior, deny it is the same behavior, and tell the rest of us we have no right to say anything because we didn’t with Trump. It will be nonsense, but the media will eat it all up.
Here’s what else I know…read the rest.
All the best,
Erick Erickson
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Friday, November 8, 2019
Thursday, November 7, 2019
27 Percent
Batman Is Not a Vampire
You're on your own.
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Analysis of the T T T
Trump's Twitter Typos
For the record, Jon Miller is incorrect. The CNN host didn't actually do the analysis of the T T Ts. The first video is Stelter's original video, the second video is the entire Jon Miller video, and the third is another Stelter video about Trump & Twitter.
For the record, Jon Miller is incorrect. The CNN host didn't actually do the analysis of the T T Ts. The first video is Stelter's original video, the second video is the entire Jon Miller video, and the third is another Stelter video about Trump & Twitter.
TWD Recap
This is an interesting article - That Was The Walking Dead’s First Bad Episode In A While - but I'm not sure I agree. I think the episode kept cadence with the different story lines happening. The story Daryl told Connie was a good one as I had kind of forgotten about Merle. It's kind of funny how some characters who are absent from the TV show either because of being dead or presumed dead are routinely mentioned - Abraham and Glenn haven't received name drops in recent memory - while Rick and Maggie, who I would argue are just as important as Abraham and Glenn, do get more frequent name drops. Granted, there are characters who did share screen time with those four but, for the ones that do... I don't know if I want name drops of off-screen characters every episode, but I also don't want name drops to only happen when it is relevant to advancing a story - in the case of Daryl's story about Merle, it was to establish that Connie and Daryl are attracted to each other.
Monday, November 4, 2019
If only I Lived in LV, NV
The Las Vegas, NV, band called "The Dark Kingdom" is looking for a drummer:
This is the hyperlink in the purple rectangle in the screenshot: The Dark Kingdom
This is the hyperlink in the purple rectangle in the screenshot: The Dark Kingdom
TDF Bs
Even if Terminator Dark Fate Bombed at the Box Office, I want to go see it tomorrow night.
Assuming that the basement is put back in order tonight.
Assuming that the basement is put back in order tonight.
Soaring Into Space
Karen, Megan, and I watched the "Rocketman" movie last night about Elton John. I wonder why I wanted to hear his tunes today...
This is my #1 Elton John tune.
This is my #10 Elton John tune.
Numbers 2 - 8 are in flux.
This is my #1 Elton John tune.
This is my #10 Elton John tune.
Numbers 2 - 8 are in flux.
When You Enjoy Spam
I never get comments on posts on this blog and that's fine. I'm sincerely okay with it. However, when I have received comments, I feel good.
Today, I received notification about this post New King's X coming and I felt good. Then I read the actual comment:
Today, I received notification about this post New King's X coming and I felt good. Then I read the actual comment:
Friday, November 1, 2019
And Yet Another New Band - Little Kruta
I purchased this album yesterday and have had it spinning it ever since!
Winner of the "Worst Lyrics by a Band Trying to Remain Relevant"!
It makes me chuckle that they felt the need to have a lyric video...for really stupid and simple lyrics.
I blame Bob Rock for not standing up to Sixx, who I am guessing wrote this mess...
I blame Bob Rock for not standing up to Sixx, who I am guessing wrote this mess...
Writing About The Hawk
This is not about Cordel Pemsl having been picked up for an OWI or about a local sportswriter picking Iowa to finish 10th in the conference. This is about sloppy writing and the lack of a serial comma making me wonder if the final sentence was trying to say "physicality on the block" AND "physicality on rebounding" or if the final sentence was trying to say "physicality on the block" AND "rebounding" - in either interpretation, it's sloppy writing.
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