From February of 2010 until December of
2013 I worked in reality television. I started off as a transcriber
which is a job that I had no idea even existed until I got it. The
job consisted of watching interviews that ranged from minutes to
hours and writing down every single um, err..., and stammer that is
used in shows. I eventually went on to logging, assistant editing,
and even some story producing that I'll never be credited with. Hell,
on one show I did something that I'm not even sure what the title
could be called!
Reality television employs thousands of
people yet you will always hear people talk about how it ruined
television and is bad for the world. Oh, shut up. Its not all that
bad. I've worked on six seasons of Hell's Kitchen, Marcel's Quantum
Kitchen, Face Off, The Ultimate Gamer, Little People Big World, a
show that never got picked up starring Jenny McCarthy, and The Glass
House. Don't bother checking for me on IMDB because I filled out one
part and said “Fuck it” because it takes too long. Between all of
these shows I learned a shit ton of things but I'll only talk about a
few in the Five Things I Learned Working In Reality Television.
