Follow the Path

Follow the path laid out in the syllabus, and you will complete a feature/pilot/whatever before the end of Senior Project in the spring.  Stray from the path, your odds drop dramatically.  Ask yourself: how close to the path am I?

Also remember, you're supposed to be blogging.  It's one of the primary ways to communicate your process and thinking.  I've been looking at the blogs and am... underwhelmed.

Finally, this process is partially about learning to write on your own, without the constant reenforcement of a standard class structure.  That being said, you should never feel cut off from assistance.  I'm ready, willing, and able to meet with you individually as much as you feel necessary to assist you in your project.  You have the power to make the request any time.  Just e-mail me.  Otherwise, keep on writing.

First Deadline

Just a friendly reminder that Senior Project and workshop students have their first deadline at the end of this week.  Keep on top of the writing.

Just Sayin'

You will earn so many brownie points if you show up to the Customer Service Premiere Tomorrow night, you'll go into diabetic shock.

Did you know?

The SCRP Program gets tons of announcements about internships, writing contests, and events of particular interest to our students.  Professor Abrams forwards these announcements out to you lucky devils and you... well, delete them without looking at them, because that's how you look at official e-mail.

To save you from yourselves, I collect all those announcements and put them on the Internship Clearing House page (mid-named because everything isn't always about internships) on this blog, so you can always find them.  I just reset the page.  Everything on there is current and of interest in Fall 2012.

Workshops Update

It's the end of week 2.  By now, all your registration issues should have been resolved and you should have made first contact with your instructors.

Please e-mail your blog addresses as soon as you've set up the page set up and start checking out other student's blogs.

From the trenches...

Customer Service, the short film written by Matt Kaufhold, Directed by Karin Kelly, scored by John Avarese, and with a production team of Drexel Faculty and Students, will be premiering in UCross #028, the Large Screening Room, on Friday, October 12, 2012, at 7:00.  Mark your calendars!

More details at the Customer Service facebook page, or at Three Professors Media.

Week 1 Pitch Meeting

Workshop and Senior Project pitch meeting scheduled!

Friday, September 28
9:30-12:00
UCross # 030 Small Screening Room

Fall Class Information

Anyone enrolling in Senior Project or Screenwriting Workshop cycles fall term, our first meeting will be during week 1, Friday the 28th, in the morning.  More details to follow, but be prepared to pitch your stories.

Alums Make Good

SCRP alum Tom Brennan got some national news today for his work at Marvel Comics, and got in a plug for Drexel and Philly, too!

http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_268748/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=R7qxwmOr

Formatting Questions?

If you're ever curious, here's what the Academy of Motion Pictures has to say about formatting:

http://www.oscars.org/awards/nicholl/resources.html

Take heed.

Calling all seniors!

You, by now, should have received an e-mail from me explaining some Senior Project details.  If you're off surfing and avoiding the web, at least check in for that e-mail in case you have any questions.  See you all in the fall.

Seniors, It's Last Call

For those of you taking Senior Project with me, the last call for sending me final scripts is Monday of Week 10.  Make sure they're polished, clean, and the best representation of your writing.  For those of you who have been ducking and covering, bobbing and weaving for the term, you can no longer hide, you must stand and be counted.  Monday, midnight, in my e-mail.

Theater Position

Corey Stephens, an ex-SCRP student, runs a theater company here in town,  And he might have a position that would work for your co-op:


1. ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE: RebelYard is looking for an Artistic Associate to work closely with its Artistic Director on it's upcoming 2nd Annual 10 Min Play Series. The ideal candidate will be organized, goal oriented, and flexible. It is preferred candidates have experience working in a theatre setting. This is a part-time, non-paid position. Send your resumes to RebelYard@gmail.com.

2. VOLUNTEERS: RebelYard seeks motivated, committed volunteers for its Little Rebels Theatre Program, a program designed in coordination with the Friends of the Free Library to bring theatre to under-served communities and children. The program runs July 11 - Aug 3, 2012. Please send your resumes to RebelYard@gmail.com.

New Comic Book Industry Class

VSCM 465 ST: The Graphic Novel M 3 – 6 The art of telling a story using pictures has been with us since early man scratched on the cave walls. Political comics, comic books and comic strips have been part of popular culture since the mid 1800s. Recently we have seen the rise of the graphic novel in popular culture. This course serves as a comprehensive look at the medium; a history of the medium, a look at how graphic novels are made, the diversity of the medium,  how they are edited, designed, sold, and marketed.  The course will mix reading and analysis of select titles, lecture, and discussions with industry experts, including an artist, author, agent, editor, publisher, retailer, and designer. (Rich Johnson). This is a new elective!

This class is only open to Graphic Design and Screenwriting majors.  If you're a Film & Video student who took the Comic Book Writing Class and are interested in this one, e-mail me and we can over-ride you in.  Seating is LIMITED.

Free Lunch Offer!

Karen Curry sent this out.  E-mail her if you're interested in attending.

The Broadcast Pioneers are offering free place for up to 6 Drexel students at this Wednesday’s Broadcast Pioneers luncheon.

If you think your students would like to go, please have them email me and I will get their names on the list.

Below is info about this weeks luncheon.

Thanks

karen

-- "90 Years of WCAU Radio/WPHT"

Wednesday, May 16th

Less than 5 Days Away! 

 

Our next luncheon will be on Wednesday, May 16th. It's a salute to "90 Years of WCAU Radio/WPHT." Our MC will be Broadcast Pioneers President Jerry Klein who worked at WCAU Radio as a editor, writer, reporter and announcer.

Upcoming Event

AN EVENING WITH KAL RUDMAN

He’s been called the Prophet of Pop, the Round Mound of Sound, and the Big Beat. He’s
Kal Rudman – most famously known as the Man with the Golden Ears - and for over
four decades he’s run The Friday Morning Quarterback, one of the most influential trade
publications in the music industry. Come hear from Kal about his life and times and
join us for a reception afterwards. Learn how this local high school teacher became a
legendary music industry mogul.

Presented by:
The Kal and Lucille Rudman Institute for Entertainment Industry Studies (Drexel
University) and the Kal and Lucille Rudman Media Production Center (Temple
University)
Wednesday, May 30th
Bossone Research Center | Mitchell Auditorium
3140 Market Street | 6:30 p.m., reception to follow
RSVP: Karen Curry (karen.curry@drexel.edu)

Kal's work goes far beyond music. Just ask the students at Drexel University, Temple
University, University of the Arts and the Community College of Philadelphia. Kal
and his wife Lucille have sponsored innovative programs at these colleges that pave
the way for the next generation of media leaders. The Rudmans also support the work
of the Police and Fire Departments of Philadelphia, Camden’s Creative Arts Morgan
Village Academy Choir and dozens of other deserving groups. From the classroom, to
the studio, to the classroom again, Kal Rudman’s passion for music and for the city of
Philadelphia has been an inspiration to us all.

Hear the Creative Arts Morgan Village Academy Choir perform. Recently back
from winning second place in the Young Prague Music Competition in the Czech
Republic, they competed against high school and college choirs from eight countries!

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Keeping up-to-date

Currently, the first group of seniors who are taking the three-term senior project option are in their third term and all of them are currently working with re-writes at one stage or another.  One of the questions I consistently get when meeting individually with seniors is: how is everyone else doing, where are they, how are their projects?

The answer to all those questions is: check their blogs.  That's why I insist you maintain them, so that everyone else can see how you're doing.  I realize that some of you deal with this on other social media platforms, but... carving out your own individual place on the web can be useful in ways that being a facebook drone can't.  I drop in on everyone's blogs periodically, and so do your individual instructors if you're in workshop, so we're not actually as disconnected as you may feel.

The other points of the blogs are to get you used to writing regularly, writing publicly, and writing something regardless of whether you have an audience.  As I've said in the past, the content of your blog isn't so much what's important, but the fact that you're writing at all.

Ask yourself: have you been keeping up?

Senior Torture

Check out the Singing for your Supper Page to see the benefits -- and hazards -- of being an SCRP senior!

SCRP Graduates Writing Stuff

Read Ben Silverio's review of The Woman in Black:

http://www.comicbooked.com/review-the-woman-in-black/

Are you doing anything interesting I should blast out to everyone?  Send me the link.

Immediate Position - Marvel Comics

Marvel comics in NYC is in desperate need of an intern immediately, the position will run now through May.  E-mail me immediately if you want more information.

About the Workshop Blogs...

If you're new to workshop, all you have to do is send me the link to your blog and I'll see that it gets posted on the blog list to the right.

Meeting Reminder - Workshops

Tomorrow, Friday the 13 (duh duh dum!) is the first meeting for the Winter SCRP Workshops and Senior Projects at 12:00 Noon in the Small Screening Room.

New students, come prepared to pitch, briefly (no more than 5 minutes).

First Meeting Of The Term

I'm scheduling the first meeting of the new term, Winter 1112, for the Workshop and Senior Project classes.  Click the link below to indicate the times you're available.

http://www.doodle.com/3bwpdd7sz5efiufh