Big Bang Theory Spec Script Outline
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The TV Industry, The Pitch Meeting and Writing Teams
write to tv
PART I, Chapters 1-5 (pp 1-54): AN OVERVIEW OF THE TV INDUSTRY
It’s called show business for a reason
Technology is changing the face of television
Product integration
The role of production companies, studios and networks
The difference between network and syndication
What are television sweeps?
Staff writing vs. freelance writing
Do you have to live in LA?
Writing for existing shows [...]
New York Times Digital Subscriptions: A Viable Revenue Stream?
Harumpf. Who the heck wants to PAY for content??? Are the New York Times publishers MAD? They’re going to lose all their traffic for crying out loud!!!
Right?
Mmmm. No. They can do this because they’ve built a reputation and their readers are loyal. I’m just a jealous blogger who wants to do the same thing without [...]
Love Thy Liberty
by Gysela MyAmi
I am at the airport wondering what possessed me to put a 23-inch HP monitor into a suitcase full of towels and bubble wrap. They scanned the suitcase and obviously searched it. Why did I do this? Why am I paying an extra $75 to ship this thing on this flight, with the [...]
The Femmebots Featured In ‘Love Thy Liberty’ Art Show
In a month that is often darkened by the memorable tragedy of 9/11, 1310 Gallery presents a positive interpretation the power of love, liberty and the personal independence.
This group exhibition features the creations of South Florida artists, performers and filmmakers.
ADMISSION IS FREE. Light Refreshments and Beverages.
…Opening Reception Sept. 24, 7-11 pm, On view [...]
Isabel Allende tells tales of passion
This TED talk by Chilean feminist author Isabelle Allende isn’t new (filmed March 2007), but it’s new to me and to anyone who hasn’t seen it. In our real-time Twittering world, there is a dangerously growing perception that news that happened before this very second is obsolete and not worth anything.
“We need feminine energy in [...]
Miami: The Land of the Virtually Employed
by Melanie Feliciano
There are two major industries in Miami: Tourism and Real Estate. Everything else – advertising, pornography, wellness, dance clubs – depends on this king and queen.
When I arrived in late 2003, it was relatively easy for me to find a job as a journalist with a start-up newspaper called the Biscayne Times. Publisher [...]
Biscayne Writers Beehive Connects Miami’s Blogerati
by Melanie Feliciano
Art Basel 2009. It was interesting to showcase writing in the midst of visual art at Miami’s Independent Thinkers inaugural show at the Mitrani Warehouse in Wynwood. We had to figure out how to grab people’s attention in an atmosphere where art is defined as a painting on a wall. Who would want [...]
Buzz Into the Biscayne Writers Beehive Installation at Art Basel Satellite Show 2009
It’s the best week in Miami: Art Basel. So many places to go, too much art to see, and too many flyers for this or that show. How to choose? How to choose?
Allow Biscayne Writers to direct you to the Wynwood Art District. This is the area of Miami most beach people regard as “the [...]
Miami’s Independent Thinkers Fundraising Extravaganza Part II: Fashion, Film & Music
Multimedia art festival dedicated to South Florida’s premiere and emerging artists hosts fundraiser at Club 50 to support their inaugural show
(November 5, 2009) Miami, FL – 3GZ Productions, in association with Club 50, Mitrani Warehouse, AV8 Productions, The Agency Collective, Biscayne Writers and Intuition Marketing (IM Events) presents Miami’s Independent Thinkers | Miami’s It, a [...]
Caridad Moro-McCormick
Caridad Moro-McCormick, a featured author at the Miami Writers Association literary event on Wednesday, Nov. 11 at Bookstore in the Grove, is a first-generation Cuban-American; born in L.A. and raised in Miami. She holds a B.A. in English and an M.F.A. from Florida International University. This year her chapbook, Visionware, was published by Finish Line [...]
Copyright and Creative Commons
by Melanie Feliciano
A year ago I started making video mash-ups after I discovered a tool called Clipnabber, which allows anyone to download a YouTube video. There are tons of copyrighted videos on YouTube, so it wasn’t clear to me if I was the criminal or if the person who uploaded “Legend,” “Clueless,” “The Matrix,” “The [...]
Review: Headz by JJ Colagrande
Check JJ out November 11 at Bookstore in the Grove as he reads, “Headz.”
Thursday, Nov 12th at Sweat Records 5505 NE 2nd Ave. Miami, FL 33137 Tel: 305.342.0953.
Sunday Nov. 15th, at 3:00 PM at the Miami Book Fair International, in Room 7174.
by Melanie Feliciano
Biscayne Writer JJ Colagrande has published his first novel – not a [...]
Arthouse Film Series Movie Night at The Standard Hotel
The Standard Spa, Miami Beach, invites you to delve into the minds of the greatest American artists of the 20th century, screenings are free and on the last Monday or every month.
TheJournalismShop.com
The Journalism Shop is an easy-to-navigate site for finding highly skilled newspaper veterans interested in taking on freelance assignments. All members are former Los Angeles Times staffers offering a wide range of skills and interests, from investigative reporters to book reviewers, page designers to project managers. Click here for more information…
An Idea for South Florida
Changing the Odds Summer Internship 2009 from New America Media on Vimeo.
Over on the West Coast, where there are oodles of programs for young people, YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia helped 12 young adults learn about themselves and how to succeed when dealing with the complications of finances, relationships, and the video editing program Final Cut [...]
Dysaffirmations
by Melanie Feliciano
A couple of members of the Miami Writers Association, Lee and Paul Reyes-Fournier, recently published a book that clueless me didn’t get upon first reading.
“I will suppress laughter at all times.”
“I am chlorine in the aquarium of love.“
“I will live my life untethered to humanity.“
What?? Aack! A whole book full of these negative [...]
Miami Plans to Cut Arts Funding
On Monday, Miami Light Project joined colleagues in a standing room only town hall meeting at the Miami Science Museum with representatives from Miami-Dade County’s Department of Cultural Affairs, Cultural Affairs Council and Commissioner Dennis Moss to learn more about the proposed budget cuts. The news wasn’t good: arts funding- as well as crucial funding [...]
How to Install Wordpress on Godaddy
by Kemila Velan
I’ve been hosting all my web sites on Godaddy.com for the past four years. It’s relatively easy to install all kinds of content management systems, once you know where to find the area inside their impossible to navigate web site. I think it’s a clusterf-ck on purpose so that you end up buying [...]
Storybids Connects Creatives With Product Placement
by Kemila Velan 2.0
Last year, while I was studying marketing with a couple of masters, I started “seeing” in product placement.
That means even when I was reading a Christmas story to my niece, I gasped at the Hess truck in one of the illustrations.
“You need to double check the books you are reading to the [...]
Sandra Cisneros Hates Iowa Writers’ Workshop
Editor’s Note: We were searching around YouTube for writing workshops and writers talking about their craft, and found this interview with Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street. It turns out she isn’t a big fan of one of the most prestigious writing programs in the country. It’s not particularly friendly to voices [...]
Post Internet Journalism
By Jan Lundberg
Posted July 1, 2009
It is true that the Internet has challenged the newspaper business like nothing else. The Internet has also changed social networking and activist organizing. But we must also see beyond the Internet, a system that banks on the notion of unlimited non-renewable resources for computers, power generation, and shipping [...]
Guest Video Blogger: Jeile Marie of GoLiveMiami.com
by Kemila Velan
I met Jeile Marie, co-creator of GoLiveMiami.com on March 17, 2009 (see my typed out blog entries of our series of encounters below). Last week, we “got together” virtually to discuss the Miami blogosphere. The question was: Are there other chic techies in our Magic City doing what we are doing?
Tuesday, March 17, [...]
Norma Chew: A South Florida Writer to Watch
Norma Chew, a member of the South Florida Writers Association, is a retired nurse who writes for Helium.com and Associated Content.
One Day Screenwriting Workshop with Ben Odell
In this intensive, four-hour master class, award-winning producer and screenwriter Ben Odell teaches the essential elements of screenplays from structure to character development, dialogue and beyond.
Josue Rojas
Editor’s Note: Every Monday is dedicated to young writers on www.BiscayneWriters.com.
Josue Rojas is a Salvadoran-American Mission Native who travels the world, documenting the “weird and cutty” beautiful bits of life. This scoundrel may be spotted painting murals in San Francisco, at a local calamity with a news camera on his shoulder or somewhere in Latin [...]
Remembering Columbine
By Curtis Esquibel
DENVER – Every once in a while a 10 year anniversary date pops into the synapses of my brain. The writer in me remembers everything — specific conversations, clothes people wore, “detailia” that shouldn’t be recalled. But somehow I do.
April 20, 1999 is somewhat one of those days — but not so hard [...]
Youth Outlook: Fighting for the Future
YO! Youth Outlook is an award-winning literary journal of youth life in the Bay Area. Featuring in-depth reporting pieces and first-person essays, comic strips and poetry pages, YO! is the communication outlet for youth who feel their voice and visions need to be seen and heard. YO! is a bridge to the world of youth [...]
Treating the Writer’s Headache
Just happened to come across an article about treating a stress headache with acupressure, which releases blocked energy (or qi), which can help relieve discomfort and disease:
Sit or lie down, close your eyes, and focus on relaxing. Using your thumbs, put pressure on the points under the base of the skull – located in neck [...]
Pablo’s Inferno
We found this really cool comic while wandering through Wondercon in San Francisco. Pablo’s Inferno tells the story of innocent boy’s descent into Hell and the fantastic adventures that ensue when he encounters some of it’s oddball [...]
Raise Your Writing Profile on BiscayneWriters.com
Write Your Life story and submit it to info@biscaynewriters.com. Keep it short and sweet – fewer than 2,000 words. Something like this.
Or, if you happen to be a screenwriter who knows how to create documentaries, submit a music video that shows your life story (we know there are lots of people on the Net who [...]
Unsilent Generation
“Information and commentary for pissed-off progressive old folks (and future old folks). . . because we’re not dead yet.”
Veteran author and investigative journalist James Ridgeway, 72, writes about the reality of being a senior in the 21st century. I have a particular appreciation for older people not only because my grandmother was the matriarch of [...]
