The Royal We (or: adventures in television)
It’s a little surprising and maybe a little bit too exciting to be this far into a career and suddenly adding brand new line items onto my resume.
In January I took a job with Current, working directly with the music programming team to develop an online audience and content they’d want to watch. Ten months after starting, the show I’d been sitting in meetings talking about hypothetically since day one has finally made it to air.
I got my first on-screen credit. Last night an interstitial segment I co-produced debuted. In a couple of weeks the one piece I really pitched and worked to arrange and helped execute will be on. Mostly I work online, bringing a music fan’s eye to how we package content for a YouTube attention span in a way that doesn’t merely feel sliced and diced. I blog. I curate content and try to highlight bands I think rock that aren’t getting enough attention for it.
A couple of favorites from Embedded that for some reason my Tumblr won’t let me embed in this text post are here and here.
I didn’t make either piece, barely even touched them. But I’m proud to be a part of this show.
I’ll be honest—I’m not really sure what to do with TV. I’ve learned more about it this year than I really knew there was to know. I like producing things, online or otherwise, though not quite as much as I love writing in this clear, clean, how-I-make-sense-of-the-world way. I have no idea what else/more/different I’d want to do in this documentary-ish realm, what stories I could tell here better than in some other medium. I’m just grateful to have gotten this side door into another step in my career.
