Taking a break now, I’d like to tell you all what is and has been going on in the world of David and the great balloon heist…err, the move to L.A.
There have been many conversations and folks sent my way by way of conversations with folks that have lead me to understand, a bit, of what I’ll need to do in order to present myself before Hollywood. In case there’s confusion, I’ll get you up to speed. I am getting married. Then, we will be moving to L.A. While there, I will need to support my new wife, so I’m looking to accelerate my career path instead of working my tail off on comic books, in hopes that I will eventually be able to break into television. (I liked my approach, but what are you going to do; life makes changes for us, doesn’t it)
With that gobbledegook of a paragraph out of me I’ll give you the plan. Right now, I’m writing a half-hour comedy script. When I’m done with that, I’ll need to write a half-hour cartoon and hour long drama script. Once I’m done with that, I’ll need to purchase what a friend of mine has called “balls” and present said scripts in meetings where I’ll need to use the twin guns of life: confidence (boarding on cockiness) and humility.
At this point, I feel like I have humility. I don’t know what I’m doing and am willing to do anything and ask anyone a plethora of questions to help me along the way. And as far as confidence, well, I can fake it!
Hooray! Give me a job, please.
on Jul 21st, 2009 at 8:27 am
know your audience and speak to them. With LA network-types, I imagine it will be something like: here’s the audience you’re looking for based on Nielsen’s customer segmentation (gender, age, income, yadda yadda), here’s how this incredible new show that I’ve written will capture that audience by the millions and create a marketing empire (or nightmare, depending on your perspective), thus drawing you hundreds of millions in advertising revenue from these Fortune 500 advertisers who will be begging to advertise on this show, and on this shows awesome website where you can download the new iPhone app for the show, and on the new line of Hasbro toys that we’ve got lined up along with the collectible cards, ironic catch-phrase t-shirts, McDonalds happy meal promotion, and additional barftasticness…
Also, for some reason (and you probably already know this), TV shows tend to have a crowd instinct thinking that if one network had success with one concept, everyone else will only find success through that same concept (ie. reality tv, american idol, crime-drama, hospital-drama, etc.) so after you have purchased that shiny new pair of solid brass tacks (to put it tactfully… pun intended), have some fun with rejection by tossing out some truly unique ideas that nobody else is already bandying about.
good luck! (or as we say in Japanese: Gambatte!)