Make TV Networks and Studios Happy – Dealing With Network Notes

Whether you’re doing a TV show for a network, writing a screenplay for a studio, or creating a web series with friends, there is no getting around the notes process. Everyone has an opinion on where your project should go next. Believe it or not, the notes phase is a make it or break it part of anyone’s career! Get it right, and the people on top will love you. Get it wrong, and your career will likely stall (at best.) But being successful in the notes process DOES NOT mean simply taking every note handed your way and executing it. Here are some solid tips on surviving the notes process with your career — and your soul — intact. Don’t Let the Notes Process Kill Your Passion — Or Your Career Just a few things we cover today: * why handling notes can make or break your career * keeping your creative compass * the most dastardly notes situation and how to get out of it * whose side to take when facing conflicting notes * when and how to communicate about notes * the “note behind the note” and why it’s crucial * what this all has to do with surfing * why it’s never lupus Hit the giant PLAY button above and turn the notes process into a career boost instead of a passion killer. Transcript coming soon! Helpful and Related Links The easy step-by-step guide to pitching us shows. Subscribe to Joke and Biagio on Youtube. Seriously, subscribe. Biagio has talked Joke into going on camera. A minor miracle. Come on, you know you want to click this sexy subscribe button: Come Make a Show With Us! This podcast ep really helped you get your head in the network game. You’re primed and ready to make some TV. We’ve even given you 7 simple steps to pitch to us, boiling it all down into one post. So you know what’s next:

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*Named "New and Noteworthy" across all podcasts, as well as TV & Film, Arts, and Education. Subscribe now. Ready to create, pitch, and sell documentary series, unscripted TV shows or reality series and specials? From creating pitch tapes to meeting with TV networks, developing your ideas to discovering reality TV stars, this podcast features tips on working in unscripted film and television that you won't find anywhere else. Get top-industry secrets and even pitch your shows to Award-Winning Documentary Filmmakers and Unscripted Television Producers Joke Fincioen and Biagio Messina. Recently, the duo have helped both new and experienced producers bring projects to television on MTV, BIOGRAPHY CHANNEL, INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY, A&E, and CNN/HLN. Your show could be next. Subscribe now. ABOUT JOKE AND BIAGIO: With over a decade of experience in unscripted film and television, this married couple has made TV shows, specials, and pilots for CNN, HLN, A&E, The CW, Biography Channel, NBC, CBS, Discovery, Investigation Discovery, Discovery+, E!, IFC, Logo, Oxygen, Style Network, VH1 and MTV. Their feature length documentary DYING TO DO LETTERMAN played in theaters across America, was invited by the International Documentary Association to qualify for Academy Award® consideration, and named “New and Noteworthy” on iTunes alongside The Dark Knight Rises, Brave, and Beasts of the Southern Wild. Subscribers to this podcast will learn the secrets of the Unscripted TV and Film worlds, and how to apply them toward career success. Subscribe today.