Does anyone on here work in the media industry? [Archive]

mops

07-18-2006, 09:03 AM

hey phenn - many thanks for your help - dont say sorry, you've helped me

i see a lot of local mags around my area using celeb pics or related articles - i dont want to use much of them but from time to time i would like to publish a story - this is where i'm stuck:

1. i'd like to publish celeb (type) interviews - but how do i get an interview to start with?

2. i'd like to use some celeb pictures - but who do i contact?

3. if a story is run by a local tv station - is it possible to obtain the story for print?

i'm ok on copyright stuff, but i'm just stuck on who to contact without making a baffoon of myself

thanks phenn, how are you today? and is it true.......are all people in florida pretty people? ;)

was looking at holiday homes to buy the other week - not bad prices are they?

Paul C

07-18-2006, 10:21 AM

I don't know about Florida but everyone here in California is blonde and muscular - except me… :D

I work in the concert industry.

1. Call their publicist or manager

2. See above

3. Call the station

Don't worry about making a buffoon out of yourself, it's an industry peopled by such types. And soon you will know the ropes and be saying things like "Let's do lunch"…

Just go for it mops, there's nothing to lose.

Best of Luck!

peace

mops

07-18-2006, 10:29 AM

Even the women .............wow....................:eek:

oh thank you paul for your help, again ;)

ok, i will do this - and anyway - what's new, i make a fool of myself daily!

we dont have this heat for very long - how long do you guys have it for ?......................................and please note, it's hotter over here than with you, so that makes me the bravest person here today and the most tortured, and i cant try phenns wet dress trick because i have to go shopping soon and i could make people very very ill

mops

07-18-2006, 10:35 AM

Paul on anothe note, how do i go about obtaining a media pass? we have a celebrity golf championship coming up (hey patrick duffy and michael douglas came over last year...................i was really chuffed !!! ahhhh bobby ewing!!).......... anyway - would like to go up this year for work purposes - any ideas?

phenn

07-18-2006, 10:38 AM

Paul on anothe note, how do i go about obtaining a media pass?

If you're working independently as opposed to covering the event for an outlet, just contact the host of the event and ask them for credentials. They'll want to know what outlet you're covering it for, but will likely be happy to provide a pass if they know it will bring them some press.

Paul C

07-18-2006, 10:44 AM

phenns right. If you want a photo or media pass to an event we're promoting, you have to contact us…

peace

mops

07-18-2006, 10:44 AM

ahhh clever chap ..........oops you are a chap right? well anyway - clever clever person - i will do this....thanks phenn

Paul C

07-18-2006, 10:45 AM

A chap? Yes.

But I'm deeply in touch with my feminine side…

peace

mops

07-18-2006, 10:45 AM

thanks paul ...................... so have you met anyone famous ? or is it a case out there that film people just walk past you every day?

Paul C

07-18-2006, 10:50 AM

mops

07-18-2006, 10:55 AM

right - meet me off the plane, i'll be there in 10 minutes and i'm coming to live with you.............................but can you not wear the 'wet dress trick outfit' :p

wow - did they really cover one of your songs or are you winding me up?:eek:

Paul C

07-18-2006, 10:58 AM

Check it out - I wrote Black Cross. They were playing it in their encore for their entire European tour and it ended up on that album.

It has been a great financial thing for me. I'm blessed…

peace

mops

07-18-2006, 11:06 AM

oh my god - youre a celebrity ! :eek: ............... if you'd said earlier i'd have treated you with far more respect ;) :) ............... from now on there will be more respect !! ;o)

oh well done paul - wow - anymore on the way?

mops

07-18-2006, 11:07 AM

.................................................. ................................... i'm still in shock !..................paul wow what an achievement ...........wow wow wow

Paul C

07-18-2006, 11:12 AM

I'm presently writing an album I feel really good about. I'm going to go for it one more time…

As for you moving in, I've got my hands full with my girlfriend. :rolleyes:

And I don't deserve any more respect than anyone else. We all deserve that. So feel free to take the pi$$… :D

peace

phenn

07-18-2006, 11:15 AM

I'm presently writing an album I feel really good about. I'm going to go for it one more time…

That's pretty darn cool. Best of luck to you.

My son is a rather brilliant musician but also finding out that it's not always the easiest occupation to undertake.

I dearly admire anyone who takes their creative abilities and puts them into a tangible form. Again, good luck and knock 'em dead.

mops

07-18-2006, 11:20 AM

:D :D the girlfriend will have to understand, i cant stop now i'm only 5 minutes away ;o))))))))))))))))))))))............what if i bring marshmallows, would that help? ;o))))))

seriously, i'm well impressed - really good on you paul - really good, you must be really proud of yourself - i wish i had such a great talent

my only claim to fame was being a radio presenter for a short time and i sang Please Dont Eat the Daisies by Doris Day ;o))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

mops

07-18-2006, 11:21 AM

This is what i wanted to say but i could find the words in my head - so can i say ditto (except i dont have a son though ;o))
........ thanks phenn

That's pretty darn cool. Best of luck to you.

My son is a rather brilliant musician but also finding out that it's not always the easiest occupation to undertake.

I dearly admire anyone who takes their creative abilities and puts them into a tangible form. Again, good luck and knock 'em dead.

mops

07-18-2006, 11:26 AM

wow - i have good news - just checked my e-mail and i've had a good few people contact me for advertising - i met a lady last week who said she'd mention the offer to a few people in her networking meetings and now i'm having them e-mail me thick and fast - didnt expect that as they're out of area (they're english, i'm not in england) - but they want to conquer the market down here..........sorry boring but i needed to shout it out - i'm pretty pleased ! yhey !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Paul C

07-18-2006, 12:45 PM

Ask and you shall receive mops. Congratulations.

Thanks for the good wishes phenn… If nothing else I'm having a great time!

peace

mops

07-18-2006, 01:05 PM

thanks Paul

i have to go and do some shopping now - not nice in this heat.......anyway - just wanted to say, well done on your achievements paul, i think it's great what you've done, really great, carry on climbing up there my friend ! nice talking to you both today, hope youre having a good day

thanks for all your help - bye phenn, bye paul ! have a good one !

The Repro Kid

07-18-2006, 10:37 PM

PaulC, can post a link to a snippet of Black Cross so I can check it out and see if I know which song it is? I was about 16 in 1979 so I'm hip with modern music but I'm more of dinosaur at heart and don't have real deep knowledge of the Peppers. (I'm more of a The Band, Allman Bros, Zep, Airplane, Syd Barrett, Bob Dylan kinda person;)

AdobeAce

07-19-2006, 07:38 AM

I'm surrounded by stars… :D

I used to live in a house with Perry Farrell from Janes Addiction, The Red Hot Chili Peppers covered a song of mine on their Live in Hyde Park CD, I've played golf with Charles Bronson, etc…

I've met a few and they're just like us, some nice, some not…

peace

Hey Paul,

Congrats on the music. Really cool! And best of luck on the album!

And you definitely got it right on the celebrities. Having worked on a lot of TV commercials over the years, I've worked with a few. All were definitely regular people, but I've been lucky enough to just work with the nice ones.

I was one of the Art Directors on the Bill Cosby campaign for Jell-O Pudding when it first started back in the mid '70's. Cool guy, very funny, and had lunch with the whole crew. Great fun!

I worked with Bob Hope on a public service commercial. He was by far the most professional actor I ever worked with. He delivered the script just twice, both times perfectly and exactly to time. Amazing!

I was also Art Director for the Plaza Hotel ad campaign in NYC, which was a celebrity campaign at that time. I worked with Jack Lemmon, Gene Schallet, and Andrea McArdle & Reed Shelton (the original Annie and Daddy Warbucks on Broadway).

When I first got into the business out of college, I worked at Young & Rubicam in NYC. You couldn't help but run into celebrities there. One morning I was getting off the elevator and literally bumped into a rather large gentleman with an incredibly deep wonderful voice. He said, "Excuse me young man," and proceeded onto the elevator. I turned around as the doors closed and caught a glimpse of who almost flattened me. And thought, "Holy Sh*t, Orson Wells." (The voice of Eastern Airlines)

Ace

mops

07-19-2006, 08:06 AM

oh my god ! how lucky are you lot ? how lucky? Bob Hope ? dear god i'd have been speechless !.........and bill cosby.......orson wells?...................i cant help it, regular people or not i'm impressed - theyre legends !

i have always dreamed of meeting doris day (you lot keep your wise comments to yourself ok.........i'm a girl, of course i want to meet doris day ! :p ) i think she's wonderful - i'm trying to get my bf to agree to book into her hotel in carmel just to say i've been there.....................dont tell me, one of you passes it each day on your way to work and it's just an everyday thing ! :rolleyes: ;)

good to hear from you Ace, how's the weather with you? are you melting like the rest of us?

Hey Paul,

Congrats on the music. Really cool! And best of luck on the album!

And you definitely got it right on the celebrities. Having worked on a lot of TV commercials over the years, I've worked with a few. All were definitely regular people, but I've been lucky enough to just work with the nice ones.

I was one of the Art Directors on the Bill Cosby campaign for Jell-O Pudding when it first started back in the mid '70's. Cool guy, very funny, and had lunch with the whole crew. Great fun!

I worked with Bob Hope on a public service commercial. He was by far the most professional actor I ever worked with. He delivered the script just twice, both times perfectly and exactly to time. Amazing!

I was also Art Director for the Plaza Hotel ad campaign in NYC, which was a celebrity campaign at that time. I worked with Jack Lemmon, Gene Schallet, and Andrea McArdle & Reed Shelton (the original Annie and Daddy Warbucks on Broadway).

When I first got into the business out of college, I worked at Young & Rubicam in NYC. You couldn't help but run into celebrities there. One morning I was getting off the elevator and literally bumped into a rather large gentleman with an incredibly deep wonderful voice. He said, "Excuse me young man," and proceeded onto the elevator. I turned around as the doors closed and caught a glimpse of who almost flattened me. And thought, "Holy Sh*t, Orson Wells." (The voice of Eastern Airlines)

Ace

Paul C

07-19-2006, 10:18 AM

Repro - This link has a snippet of the song if you click Preview of the track. Then it goes on and plays some other stuff:

http://www.goodchoicemusic.com/fl_redhotchilipeppers_97789

It was the first song I wrote for 45 Grave, my old band, in 1979. Cashing in all these years later is - cool. Hold on to your rights guys, you never know what's going to happen.

Adobe Ace - Orson Welles? Now that is impressive! Always nice to hear from you.

peace

The Repro Kid

07-19-2006, 12:16 PM

Thanks Paluc, I haven't heard it, but "45 Grave" sounds familiar.

Mops, Carmel is about 361 miles from Los Angles, so I won't be driving by there any time soon. I suppose you could make it half way across Germany before reaching 361 miles from England. ;)

Ace, the voice of american airlines? I'd need a hypnotist to be able to remember back that far!

mops

07-19-2006, 01:22 PM

........ :eek:and this is exactly what i mean when i say i dont understand what 'big' is :).....................my head will never get around this, this size thing ............... that's a h8ll of a distance, your country is massive - i can drive to the end of mine in 3 hours.......i wonder if i kept going straight and drove quite fast would i actually jump into another country ;)

Is LA really flat?

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Paul C

07-19-2006, 02:58 PM

LA has all kinds of hills. Nothing mountainous, but lots of hills. I live in the foothills near Dodger Stadium.

peace

mops

07-19-2006, 06:27 PM

paul - youre really laid back arent you? are you always like that?

AdobeAce

07-19-2006, 09:34 PM

Ace, the voice of american airlines? I'd need a hypnotist to be able to remember back that far!

Hey Repro,

Actually it's Eastern Airlines. "The Wings of Man." I can still hear Orson's voice.

I started working on Eastern in June 1973. It's a very long time ago, in a galaxy far away.

Ace

:D

The Repro Kid

07-20-2006, 03:02 AM

Mops, the local mountain ranges reach at least 9,000 ft I believe, I'm not a skier. The last time I went up there I think it took about 2 hrs. on the freeway before we started really climbing. I don't go up too often.

The Repro Kid

07-20-2006, 03:05 AM

Ace, don't change the subject. I can remember watching those commercials in theatre!!! That's how old they are ;)

Paul C

07-20-2006, 09:04 AM

mops - Yeah in general I'm pretty darn laid back, but if you push me at work I will bite your head off. Hate to do it, but sometimes you have to.

We just had a marketer come in from Capitol Records. She's new hire. She had been there all of a week when I was doing an ad mat for her. I got it done and took it over there. In front of 3 other people she said "I hate white text, where I come from we don't use white text". I finished the conversation and then took her aside.

In a very angry voice I said "Don't ever tell me you hate anything I do, I'm not going to do it to you so don't do it to me. Not to mention that the statement I hate white text is ludicrous. And I don't care where you come from, you're not there any longer".

I've been with my company for 15 years and am the AD. So I don't put up with pure stupidity like that and my philosophy is to set someone straight immediately. I don't let things fester.

Now we're getting along famously, she just needed some guidance - and a good spanking…

So I'm not always laid back but it is my preferred state of being…

peace

mops

07-20-2006, 01:31 PM

well good on you - h8ll i'd have been ranting at that - possibly wouldnt have had the sense to take her aside - good on you paul - how really rude is that? i hate people being so rude - good on you, she wont do it again

and what is wrong with white text?........................best bin all my business cards and tear up my magazine cover then ;o)

i'm in a tricky situation, i'm taking someone on, on a 3 month trial basis - nice girl, can imagine it would work out well - i happen to know her bf through my parents, but not to talk to you know, enough just to say hello in passing - anyway - the other afternoon i needed to speak with her on the telephone, he answers and i hear voices in the background - i ask to speak to her but he carried on conversation with me - but said something naughty, not flirty, but i did take offence on top of that she's a potential employee - the comment was in front of her - i can see that she'd be a great asset to my business but i now have a big issue about this - i'm really not narrow minded at all - however, what he said was very disrespectful and in appropriate, usually i'd have wiped the floor with him, but instead i just bluntly repeated that i wanted to speak to her

am i being too picky over this? it honestly was rude and really inappropriate - and i dont even know him well enough to joke over stuff like that, it was also very disrespectful in front of her too

should i just let it go and if it happens again just tell him straight?

mops

07-20-2006, 01:38 PM

Now we're getting along famously, she just needed some guidance - and a good spanking…

peace

:) :) ...............i just picked up on that :)

Paul C

07-20-2006, 05:26 PM

I don't think that you're being weird. It was stupid of him and it put you in an uncomfortable situation.

You're just going to have to feel it out. Maybe nothing else needs to be said, maybe it does. If you're the type of person that is going to hold onto this I would deal with it ASAP. Grudges are worthless. Better to just set it straight.

If he does it again you're going to have to slam him back to reality, which he obviously has no concept of. The unfortunate truth is that people like this have no boundaries and are likely to cross yours again until they're set straight.

That's why I did it right then and there with the genius marketer. I have boundaries and if you cross them you are going to hear about it right away.

But I'd much rather not have to do this and just do my work, go home and perhaps sip on a beer…

Best of Luck mops

peace

The Repro Kid

07-20-2006, 09:10 PM

I can't help thinking that if I was in your potential employee's position I would have been fuming mad at anyone, friend, family of stranger, that tried to say anything witty and clever at all, to one of my potential employers. If I were she I would have ripped the phone out his hand before even three whole words were uttered. And after I finished my conversation and got off the phone a small fireworks display would have immediately followed.

Paul C

07-20-2006, 09:38 PM

It is a supremely compromising position for everyone except the idiot who uttered the tasteless remark. My girlfriend would flay me and have me for dinner if I did something like that.

peace

The Repro Kid

07-21-2006, 03:04 AM

Hear you loud and clear on that paulc. Every GF I've ever had has pretty much flayed me, dinner or not.

Hmm... topic for a different thread perhaps...

:o

mops

07-21-2006, 05:36 AM

thanks Paul thanks Repro

this is exactly my point - i dont know how she reacted but if it was me - i'd have swiped the phone from my bf and wiped the floor with him 1. for being so disrespectful to me (her as a gf) and 2. speaking like that to a potential employer

it's not like he's a stupid man either, he's professional he should have known better. I can let it go for now but your both right, it will happen again and i know i have to deal with it.

my bf is furious but as it's my company he wont interfere unless i need him too

i dont understand, i dont even know the chap, and i dont give out flirty vibes to bring on that sort of reaction, i'm very careful where work is concerned of how i'm portraying myself - so i am annoyed at it, if not quite sickened by what he said

i'll deal with it if it comes up again, which i have a feeling it will - thanks again guys

and Paul.........you definetly done the right thing, i wouldnt like to cross you ;)

It is a supremely compromising position for everyone except the idiot who uttered the tasteless remark. My girlfriend would flay me and have me for dinner if I did something like that.

peace

mops

07-21-2006, 05:40 AM

Hear you loud and clear on that paulc. Every GF I've ever had has pretty much flayed me, dinner or not.

Hmm... topic for a different thread perhaps...

:o

youre so funny

:D with a frying pan or 'the clothes out of the bedroom window' flaying? :D :D

Paul C

07-21-2006, 09:57 AM

In my case it would be flaying by tongue-lashing (a painful medieval procedure known to be as effective as any they dreamed up during the Inquisition).

peace

mops

07-21-2006, 01:47 PM

:D :D :D now that is one good woman ! ;o)))))))))))))))))............................... .i'd add a bit of public humiliation too just to put the icing on the cake ;o)))))))))))))))

In my case it would be flaying by tongue-lashing (a painful medieval procedure known to be as effective as any they dreamed up during the Inquisition).

peace

The Repro Kid

07-21-2006, 10:06 PM

youre so funny

:D with a frying pan or 'the clothes out of the bedroom window' flaying? :D :D

Sure it starts with 'the clothes out of the bedroom window' flaying.

But in the end it always ends up like, well, have you ever seen that short animation classic from the '70s titled Bambi Meets Godzilla?

If you have, then picture me as Bambi and any and all of my previous GFs as Godzilla.

You'd have to see it. It's a great analogy.

mops

07-22-2006, 01:44 PM

i wish they had better 'smilies' on here because right now a 'laughing until i pee' smilie is needed..............repro youre so funny !!!! :D :D :D

Sure it starts with 'the clothes out of the bedroom window' flaying.

But in the end it always ends up like, well, have you ever seen that short animation classic from the '70s titled Bambi Meets Godzilla?

If you have, then picture me as Bambi and any and all of my previous GFs as Godzilla.

You'd have to see it. It's an excellent correlation.