First Creative Meeting with Stun

Friday, May 9, 2008 | 12:32 PM

- So, once again, Steve gets to have all the fun. He's updated you on the interview he did yesterday, being in front of the camera, etc....although, I think he probably belongs behind it from what I saw. (...I'll pay for that one later, I'm sure. I'll just have to write some very crazy scenes to keep him busy...)

We had our first 'face-to-face'* with the guys at Stun Creative today, and it went over pretty well, I thought. We're both being followed by cameras now during the creative process, so for the first time, I have an idea of what it must be like to be on a reality show. It's...interesting. Let's just say I won't be auditioning for Tila Tequila anytime soon.

We went around, did introductions - Brad and Mark are the two heads of Stun, Christian is heading up financial, and Paul is kind of the renaissance man who we'll be working with most frequently. Then we moved on to the breakdown we'd talked about during that first conference call, and just started looking at it logistically - some basic notes about making sure that everything will be feasible within our budget and within our production timeline.

It's exciting...I've been working for the past few years on documentary series for the History Channel, so I've sat in on production meetings before, but now we were meeting about something that was purely dependent on what I was going to write. Non-fiction provides a really incredible working environment, a great basis for learning to tell stories...but there's always something really compelling about being able to do whatever you want...okay, not 'whatever' you want, but you get the idea.

Things are starting to get more concrete...and the meeting has really gotten my imagination jump-started. It's going to be a really incredible summer...

(*note to self: try not to sound so LA in future entries)