mysterious
Dec. 4th, 2007 02:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethOn the Doctor Who FAQ page it says
Q: Can I be in it? Can I write a script? Can I submit a story idea? Can I work on it? Can I be an extra? Can I visit the set?
A: Sadly, no.
Yet either it is beamed in from another universe, or people do indeed work on it and all that.
So one wonders, how?
And surely a more useful FAQ answer would be something like 'if you start working for the BBC and work your way up and get on the right team' etc etc, rather than just telling the whole UK 'no'. I mean even 'not through this website, try BBC jobs' would be more accurate, yesno?
... and the 'beamed from alternate universe' thing can't be true unless the reports of people stalking the filming are also cunningly imported from the same source.
*nods*
I'm bored and thinking about my ultimate career goal as stated at college ie write for Doctor Who. Though I'd be quite happy to put things in alphabetical order for Doctor Who between terms, or something. There's a general DW related theme to my vague hopes for future employment.
... yes, I know, there's a whole 'be realistic' theme to certain other work associated discourses, but as I said, bored.
... So I'm looking for a job where I can deal with small numbers of people in a familiar setting with predictable schedules and an ongoing lack of, for instance, Things Going Boom. Television jobs are quite possibly not going to overlap that completely. But... I can manage writing. If employment involved sitting, writing, and sending the results to someone, I could do that. It's why writer seems like a very nice future employment.
And it would include the other entirely necessary aspect, which is Not Being Bored Out Of My Skull, because I'm only self motivating when I'm actually interested and really can't get the point of doing work that you don't actually want to do. People have tried to explain to me about money but, well, I remain fuzzy on the details. (No, really. I can never figure out what money is worth, and it all seems unnecessarily confusing.) And you don't want to be around me when I'm bored-grumpy. I do my best, but my mental health issues rather amplify bored-grumpy to epic levels.
So your standard office job of little variation is probably going to get me in trouble. I don't know. I've never tried it. Well, except for those two weeks in the incapacity benefit office, but then I had to phone in not-coming-out-from-under-my-duvet for, er, well, the next decade.
Television sounds like even the boring bits could be interesting. Especially if the end result is, you know, a show I've been obsessed with for long and long and long.
All the how-to-get-into-television books I've read seem to involve an awful lot more social skills than I currently possess. But I have made great strides in working in small groups. I have completed several assignments successfully while working in a group. We made a mini play one time. So I can do more than I think. And I've even been managing to do things on deadline lately, which seeing as it's new and shiny at age 29 I find somewhat miraculous. Still, these things could apply to making TV shows. Work with other writers - no problem! Er, even if I'm working in a typing-while-they-talk capacity or something. The whole am I a good enough writer issue is as I understand it unlikely to come up straight away.
I'd still like to do some units designed to find that out. I think the UEA run ones on scriptwriting. Probably have to apply a bunch in advance. I think it weren't on the right day to try this year.
So, anyways, mystery: how is DW made without anyone who reads the website being allowed.
Hang on, maybe it's reading the website that disqualifies you...
Q: Can I be in it? Can I write a script? Can I submit a story idea? Can I work on it? Can I be an extra? Can I visit the set?
A: Sadly, no.
Yet either it is beamed in from another universe, or people do indeed work on it and all that.
So one wonders, how?
And surely a more useful FAQ answer would be something like 'if you start working for the BBC and work your way up and get on the right team' etc etc, rather than just telling the whole UK 'no'. I mean even 'not through this website, try BBC jobs' would be more accurate, yesno?
... and the 'beamed from alternate universe' thing can't be true unless the reports of people stalking the filming are also cunningly imported from the same source.
*nods*
I'm bored and thinking about my ultimate career goal as stated at college ie write for Doctor Who. Though I'd be quite happy to put things in alphabetical order for Doctor Who between terms, or something. There's a general DW related theme to my vague hopes for future employment.
... yes, I know, there's a whole 'be realistic' theme to certain other work associated discourses, but as I said, bored.
... So I'm looking for a job where I can deal with small numbers of people in a familiar setting with predictable schedules and an ongoing lack of, for instance, Things Going Boom. Television jobs are quite possibly not going to overlap that completely. But... I can manage writing. If employment involved sitting, writing, and sending the results to someone, I could do that. It's why writer seems like a very nice future employment.
And it would include the other entirely necessary aspect, which is Not Being Bored Out Of My Skull, because I'm only self motivating when I'm actually interested and really can't get the point of doing work that you don't actually want to do. People have tried to explain to me about money but, well, I remain fuzzy on the details. (No, really. I can never figure out what money is worth, and it all seems unnecessarily confusing.) And you don't want to be around me when I'm bored-grumpy. I do my best, but my mental health issues rather amplify bored-grumpy to epic levels.
So your standard office job of little variation is probably going to get me in trouble. I don't know. I've never tried it. Well, except for those two weeks in the incapacity benefit office, but then I had to phone in not-coming-out-from-under-my-duvet for, er, well, the next decade.
Television sounds like even the boring bits could be interesting. Especially if the end result is, you know, a show I've been obsessed with for long and long and long.
All the how-to-get-into-television books I've read seem to involve an awful lot more social skills than I currently possess. But I have made great strides in working in small groups. I have completed several assignments successfully while working in a group. We made a mini play one time. So I can do more than I think. And I've even been managing to do things on deadline lately, which seeing as it's new and shiny at age 29 I find somewhat miraculous. Still, these things could apply to making TV shows. Work with other writers - no problem! Er, even if I'm working in a typing-while-they-talk capacity or something. The whole am I a good enough writer issue is as I understand it unlikely to come up straight away.
I'd still like to do some units designed to find that out. I think the UEA run ones on scriptwriting. Probably have to apply a bunch in advance. I think it weren't on the right day to try this year.
So, anyways, mystery: how is DW made without anyone who reads the website being allowed.
Hang on, maybe it's reading the website that disqualifies you...