Working on a magician hosted TV Show for children is both exciting and scary! After all, this is completely new territory for me. When I was first approached about doing the TV Show I thought terrific, this will be easy…boy was I wrong! I never envisioned the amount of work that goes into putting something like this together. The concept seemed simple enough; a 30 minute show that featured old cartoons and magic. I would perform some magic and introduce the cartoons. No biggie. But then I found out that I had to write the script (not something I do everyday) and TV scripts are formatted very differently than say the script for a magic effect you’re working on. So I had to learn proper scripting and once I began, I realized that there would be more original content than I thought! The thing about original content is you just don’t know if it will fall flat or be a hit. It is nothing like the majority of my work; I write the script for an effect. I practice and rehearse it and then I try it out in live performance. I can usually tell from the first performance whether it will be a keeper or not. But writing for TV is very different. You write what you hope will be an entertaining show but you don’t have the luxury of a live audience to gauge your progress. So I spent my evenings writing and sending the scripts to the producer and the director and after four drafts I had something that resembled a script for a TV Show. I will probably complete one or two more revisions before it is all said and done but at least I kind of have an idea of what I am doing now. Then there are just 29 more episodes to go! I know I’m not writing “Doctor Who” but it is still quite challenging.
To be continued…
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