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Post by Dave the Dave on Nov 6, 2013 11:43:35 GMT -5
I'm applying anyway. f*** it
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2013 14:54:00 GMT -5
Make sure you put "used to work for WWE. Go ahead - check my references mother f***er!"
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Post by Hit Girl on Nov 6, 2013 14:59:11 GMT -5
Based on their criteria, Vince Russo wouldn't have qualified.
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amaron
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Post by amaron on Nov 6, 2013 15:01:34 GMT -5
Not a SINGLE mention of needing to be able to understand wrestling in any facet.
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Post by Hit Girl on Nov 6, 2013 15:03:21 GMT -5
They'd be better off just cribbing ideas from here. You'd get more hits than misses and it would free.
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Post by Banjo Is Broken on Nov 6, 2013 17:11:42 GMT -5
They'd be better off just cribbing ideas from here. You'd get more hits than misses and it would free. Yes, they can use this thread as their main source.
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Nov 6, 2013 19:47:37 GMT -5
*Or Women, I didn't have enough room in the title. Sorry creative ladies. SourceSo how 'bout it FAN? I have a potential passion for TNA content, but TNA somehow finds a way to quell that. I wonder what kind of talent pool TNA expects to draw from. I mean, I know "a job is a job" especially in an extremely competitive field like television, that being said: I would think there is some sort stigma towards "rasslin'" in mainstream entertainment circles. So I don't know if any writers with aspirations towards writing screenplays and scripts for non-wrestling tv shows might steer clear of writing for TNA. I mean sure, writers with little to no credits who would be willing to accept a position writing for TNA because it's a paycheck tangent to what they ultimately want to do. But people who already have a minimum of three years experience in TV writing might think of writing for TNA as beneath them and try to gain employment on a sitcom, drama, late night talk show, etc. I mean sure WWE has a lot of sitcom writers in the time that Stephanie McMahon has led the creative department and arguably they could've gotten a different Hollywood writing job (or said "thanks, but I'm good where I'm at writing for Friends"), but atleast with WWE I'm sure they're still earning in the same neighborhood as what they were before (sidenote: are WWE writers in the WGA? Or atleast the ones who came into the WWE from Hollywood?) and being in Stamford, Connecticut has them close to new York City and thus still in the loop of mainstream entertainment. This brings up another problem. I assume working for TNA would require relocating to either Orlando, Florida (if it's true that iMPACT! might go back to filming at Universal Studios) or Nashville, Tennessee (that's still where TNA's headquarters are located, right?) which would mean that said writer would be totally out of the New York City-Hollywood mainstream TV and movie industry is. Sure, if you have no interest in that industry and you just want to get into writing solely to write pro wrestling, that might be fine. But for those wanting to write for TV and films it could be a nonstarter. Speaking of TV writers, did WCW ever have any industry outsiders on their writing staff/booking committee, besides Bob Mould? Because even though WCW had some of the disadvantages I mentioned about above with TNA (i.e. stigma about writing for a "rasslin'" company and relocating to WCW's homebase of Atlanta draws you away from media hot beds like New York and L.A.) it did have the benefit of being owned by Turner Broadcasting and later Time Warner. Which could be seen as a way to backchannel your way into film and television departments of the parent company (which I guess WWE writers could do with WWE Films as well) and then use that as a springboard for a Hollywood writing career. So if you were to apply for this, what the hell would you use for a writing sample? Would they accept a non-wrestling writing sample just to show them what you can do writing-wise? Or would you write a spec script for an episode of iMPACT!? How the hell would you format a spec script for a wrestling show? Would you do it like a normal teleplay? Or more of a format sheet with bulletpoints? Also, the fact that Vince Russo is no longer in the company and therefore I wouldn't be able to get stories about sharing a writers' room with him is a nonstarter for me.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2013 19:56:20 GMT -5
*Or Women, I didn't have enough room in the title. Sorry creative ladies. SourceSo how 'bout it FAN? I have a potential passion for TNA content, but TNA somehow finds a way to quell that. I wonder what kind of talent pool TNA expects to draw from. I mean, I know "a job is a job" especially in an extremely competitive field like television, that being said: I would think there is some sort stigma towards "rasslin'" in mainstream entertainment circles. So I don't know if any writers with aspirations towards writing screenplays and scripts for non-wrestling tv shows might steer clear of writing for TNA. I mean sure, writers with little to no credits who would be willing to accept a position writing for TNA because it's a paycheck tangent to what they ultimately want to do. But people who already have a minimum of three years experience in TV writing might think of writing for TNA as beneath them and try to gain employment on a sitcom, drama, late night talk show, etc. I mean sure WWE has a lot of sitcom writers in the time that Stephanie McMahon has led the creative department and arguably they could've gotten a different Hollywood writing job (or said "thanks, but I'm good where I'm at writing for Friends"), but atleast with WWE I'm sure they're still earning in the same neighborhood as what they were before (sidenote: are WWE writers in the WGA? Or atleast the ones who came into the WWE from Hollywood?) and being in Stamford, Connecticut has them close to new York City and thus still in the loop of mainstream entertainment. This brings up another problem. I assume working for TNA would require relocating to either Orlando, Florida (if it's true that iMPACT! might go back to filming at Universal Studios) or Nashville, Tennessee (that's still where TNA's headquarters are located, right?) which would mean that said writer would be totally out of the New York City-Hollywood mainstream TV and movie industry is. Sure, if you have no interest in that industry and you just want to get into writing solely to write pro wrestling, that might be fine. But for those wanting to write for TV and films it could be a nonstarter. Speaking of TV writers, did WCW ever have any industry outsiders on their writing staff/booking committee? Because even though WCW had some of the disadvantages I mentioned about above with TNA (i.e. stigma about writing for a "rasslin'" company and relocating to WCW's homebase of Atlanta draws you away from media hot beds like New York and L.A.) it did have the benefit of being owned by Turner Broadcasting and later Time Warner. Which could be seen as a way to backchannel your way into film and television departments of the parent company (which I guess WWE writers could do with WWE Films as well) and then use that as a springboard for a Hollywood writing career. So if you were to apply for this, what the hell would you use for a writing sample? Would they accept a non-wrestling writing sample just to show them what you can do writing-wise? Or would you write a spec script for an episode of iMPACT!? How the hell would you format a spec script for a wrestling show? Would you do it like a normal teleplay? Or more of a format sheet with bulletpoints? Also, the fact that Vince Russo is no longer in the company and therefore I wouldn't be able to get stories about sharing a writers' room with him is a nonstarter for me. I'd do a second pass on this cover letter.
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saintpat
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Post by saintpat on Nov 6, 2013 20:42:02 GMT -5
Looking for a position with great job security (unless we sell it or shut it down)?
Want to be on TV (hey, if Russo and Dixie can get in front of the camera ...)?
Looking for a job with little travel (since we can't afford to do road shows)?
Does nonsense make sense to you?
Can you write weekly heel and face turns ... for the same character?
Are you willing to stand up to mysterious biker types who threaten you with physical violence -- and follow through on their threats?
Want to get half-off tickets to tour Universal Orlando (no promises, but we'll see what we can do)?
TNA is for YOU!!!
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Post by Bravo Echo November on Nov 6, 2013 21:26:13 GMT -5
Remember amigos, "green is not a creative color".
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Post by bootytea on Nov 6, 2013 21:35:13 GMT -5
Potential passion.
That would be nice for me, but I do not have nearly as much experience.
Breaking into the entertainment industry must be extremely difficult.
At least they do not ask for a Communications degree though.
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Post by Banjo Is Broken on Nov 6, 2013 21:55:58 GMT -5
I have so many fantastic ideas that my head would explode if I even began to know what I was talking about.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Nov 6, 2013 22:43:48 GMT -5
Remember amigos, "green is not a creative color". Says you
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Post by Chainsaw on Nov 7, 2013 1:34:15 GMT -5
I'll be honest with you...I'm kinda tempted to submit for this.
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Post by Professor Chaos on Nov 7, 2013 3:18:44 GMT -5
What's it pay? 20K a year?
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Post by ________ has left the building on Nov 7, 2013 6:07:19 GMT -5
What's it pay? 20K a year? All of the TNA merchandise you fill your car trunk with.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Nov 7, 2013 6:22:02 GMT -5
I'd love it if someone gave us Serious Gay BroMans minus the serious part.
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Post by Hit Girl on Nov 7, 2013 8:39:01 GMT -5
If they really wanted to do something different they should have an open submission policy. Have a section of their website where fans can submit ideas with the provisio that anything submitted automatically becomes the property of TNA. They'll get some trolls of course, but they'd also get good ideas and wouldn't have to pay some low rent soap opera writer or reality television monkey money to do it.
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Post by Wolf Hurricane on Nov 7, 2013 10:22:14 GMT -5
I hope bloopscoop applies for the job.
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Post by Rican on Nov 7, 2013 11:00:04 GMT -5
If I got hired I'd be fire within a week for just pitching the same idea over and over with slightly different variations, like GOB in that Arrested Development episode.
Except my idea would be Chris Masters in a sombrero.
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