Podcast appearances and mentions of evan schmitt

Evan Schmitt is a father, voice actor, host of the #getcreative podcast—and he is selling thousands of audiobooks on Audible. (Yes, thousands!) Listen now and he and Vult Lab CEO Kelly Ann Collins informally chat about life, work, Gary Vee, marketing and more.

For Episode 97 of The CareerMetis Podcast, we will learn about: A Day in the Life of a VOICE ACTOR from our guest Evan Schmitt.Guest Introduction – Evan SchmittEvan Schmitt is a voice actor by profession. Evan got his first start in voice overs when he was young and making films. He narrated his own films at first, and then in College started showing an interest in audio and vocal performance.Episode Summary 1. Evan begins by telling the story of how he became a voice actor, which developed over time into his side business.2. Evan also goes into detail about what a voice actor is, what the job entails, and the surprising places that voice acting is used in our day to day lives.3. Evan describes his day to day, which is pretty full considering he works a full time job on top of the voice acting work he fulfills.4. Evan shares that audio books are a very enjoyable part of his job, because of their length and the nature of how they need to be approached. He loves working on fiction audio books because the actor has to become the characters within the book.5. Evan also breaks down the challenges of the career. He talks about the rejection that comes along with his career, and how selling himself at the beginning was difficult until he shifted his thinking and made it a consistent habit.6. He also explains the risk involved with perfectionism, and how it can be a real snag for some.7. Evan talks about how to get into voice acting and whether or not a formal education is required. He also shares some insights on how to continuously improve in order to create a fulfilling and successful career our of voice acting.Quotes“Create something”“Do something for 5 minutes a day and do it every day”.“You're essentially a full service audio production service”“there's a lot of ways that a voice can tell a story”“Voice Acting is the highest paid per-hour Freelance job in the world”“If you really want to do it, then you are the only one who can make it happen”.Links & ResourcesTo learn more about Evan Schmitt, you can connect with him on LinkedIn or through this website.Intro Music provided courtesy of Accelerated Ideas (www.accelerated-ideas.com). Soundtrack – Siren KickbackEnding Music provided courtesy of Accelerated Ideas (www.accelerated-ideas.com). Soundtrack – No Need to Rush See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Alex and Nick discuss the content and formats of successful TV pitch documents, from one-pagers to pitch bibles. How do you effectively communicate the vision of a TV show? What are the different formats of TV pitch documents? What should you include in your pitch? How do you structure a pitch document? What are the burning questions you need to answer? How do you write your pitch in a compelling and unique way? Plus, we talk dramedy script categories. The Paper Team gives their sales pitch... SHOWNOTES Content Paper Scraps: Spec Lists and Script Categories (00:31) 1 - Formats of TV pitch documents (03:41) 2 - Content of a TV pitch document (06:35) 3 - How to best express your pitch: format, structure, and prose (19:40) Takeaways and Resources (33:19) Links Leave a voicemail for Paper Team & TV Calling Sundance Episodic Program "Pitch Doc One" - TV Calling "Meetings 101: Generals and TV Staffing" (PT62) Terra Nova Resources "The Ultimate Sales Letter" - Dan S. Kennedy Special thanks to Evan Schmitt for helping us edit this episode. If you enjoyed this episode (and others), please consider leaving us an iTunes review at paperteam.co/itunes! :) You can find Paper Team on Twitter: Alex - @TVCalling Nick - @_njwatson If you have any questions, comments or feedback, you can e-mail us: ask@paperteam.co

Evan Schmitt is an author, voice actor, and the host of Get Creative with Evan Schmitt, a podcast in which producers, artists, actors, and entrepreneurs discuss the most important thing they've learned during their careers. In this episode, Logan Draper talks with Evan over the phone about how you can make your side hustle worth your time. You can listen to Evan's podcast here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/get-creative-with-evan-schmitt/id1164282349?mt=2 Find Evan online at one of the places below: Twitter: @evanschmitt Instagram: evanschmitt90

Evan is a millennial (born in 1990) and he loves telling a story, especially yours. In 2006, Evan narrated his first self-produced documentary, inspired by a chance meeting with ski filmmaking legend Warren Miller. Since then, he has lent his signature sound to hundreds of projects around the world. He also hosts a podcast where he explores the question, "What makes creative people creative?" It's called the Get Creative Podcastand it can be found wherever you get your podcasts.

Alex and Nick discuss the differences between inspiration and stealing in screenwriting and television. What constitutes an original idea? Where is the line between inspiration and stealing? Where can you get inspiration from? What is considered an homage? How many different stories are there to tell? Plus, an answer to how many episodes of a TV show you should watch before speccing it. The Paper Team pays homage... SHOWNOTES Content Paper Scraps: Episodes to watch before writing a TV spec (00:52) 1 - What is an original idea? (03:34) 2 - Why everybody "steals" (06:36) 3 - Paying homage and the different stories being told (09:23) 4 - Inspiration in TV and spec scripts (22:58) Takeaways and Next Week On (34:13) Links Armageddon Deep Impact "Protecting and Over-Protecting Your TV Script: Copyright, Ownership and Idea Theft" (PT23) Parallel thinking Rough Night Girls Trip Akira Kurosawa Stranger Things Aesop's Fables Jean de La Fontaine Hero's Journey Christopher Vogler "The Art of Fiction" - John Gardner "Save the Cat" - Blake Snyder "The Seven Basic Plots" - Christopher Booker "The Six Main Arcs in Storytelling, as Identified by an A.I." - The Atlantic The Shield The Simpsons movie references This episode brought to you by Tracking Board's Launch Pad Writing Competitions Use code PAPERTEAM to get $15 OFF when you enter a Launch Pad Competition Special thanks to Evan Schmitt for helping us edit this episode. If you enjoyed this episode (and others), please consider leaving us an iTunes review at paperteam.co/itunes! :) You can find Paper Team on Twitter: Alex - @TVCalling Nick - @_njwatson If you have any questions, comments or feedback, you can e-mail us: ask@paperteam.co

NEW: Get the episode cheat sheet on our Patreon! Update: PT51 transcript now available Alex and Nick look at the importance of dialogue in TV writing, and give an overview of what makes it stand out. What can you use dialogue for? What makes good or bad dialogue? How do you introduce character quirks in the dialogue? What are some common pitfalls in dialogue writing? How do you fix bad dialogue? Plus, we respond to a review and talk over-used pitches. The Paper Team trades words... SHOWNOTES Content Odds-and-ends: Review & Pitches (00:48) 1 - Purpose of dialogue (09:06) 2 - Specificities of dialogue: style and character (13:08) 3 - Finding your dialogue (16:38) 4 - What makes bad dialogue and how to fix it (22:41) Takeaways and Resources (34:42) Links Mumblecore Mark Duplass Big Brother Live Feeds The Newsroom Littlefinger's "Chaos is a Ladder" speech from Game of Thrones (Video) "Oh, hi Mark" scene from The Room (Video) Code-switching Draft Zero Podcast Resources "Dialogue Secrets" - William C. Martell This episode brought to you by Tracking Board's Launch Pad Writing Competitions Use code PAPERTEAM to get $15 OFF when you enter a Launch Pad Competition Special thanks to Evan Schmitt for helping us edit this episode. If you enjoyed this episode (and others), please consider leaving us an iTunes review at paperteam.co/itunes! :) You can find Paper Team on Twitter: Alex - @TVCalling Nick - @_njwatson If you have any questions, comments or feedback, you can e-mail us: ask@paperteam.co

Alex and Nick invite Billy Domineau, writer of the popular Seinfeld 9/11 spec script and staff writer on Family Guy, to talk about the pros and cons of writing a TV stunt spec. When should you write a stunt script? What is the process of making and distributing one? How can a TV spec get shared around town? How do you use that popularity to get represented and staffed on a TV show? The Paper Team goes viral... SHOWNOTES Content 1 - Brainstorming, writing, distributing and having the stunt spec script go viral (00:54) 2 - Getting representation, being staffed on Family Guy, lessons from the writers' room, and using social media as a TV writer (31:01) Resources and Next Week On (53:23) Links Billy Domineau on Twitter Seinfeld Billy Domineau's Seinfeld 9/11 stunt spec ("The Twin Towers") (PDF) Family Guy Upright Citizens Brigade Nicole Conlan's The People v. O.J. Simpson stunt spec ("The Briefcase Switcheroo") (PDF) The Bechdel test Jerry Seinfeld (character) Elaine Benes Cosmo Kramer George Costonza Julia Louis-Dreyfus "The Conversion" (5x11 - Seinfeld) "The Secret Code" (7x07 - Seinfeld) Rachel Bloom "The 9/11 Seinfeld spec script you absolutely have to read today" - The Comic's Comic "What Happens When Your 9/11 'Seinfeld' Spec Script Blows Up the Internet" - Splitsider "This Seinfeld Episode about 9/11 Is a Model of Comedy Writing and Monumentally Bad Taste" - Slate Jon Lovett James Adomian Chris Kelly Brandon McCarthy "Billy Domineau talks September 11 spec script" - Entertainment Weekly Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee Rachel Bloom's "Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury" (Video) 3 Arts Entertainment United Talent Agency Alec Sulkin BET (Black Entertainment Television) "The Wedding Squanchers" (2x10 - Rick & Morty) Bowen Yang on Twitter Resources Writers' Guild Foundation Library This episode brought to you by Tracking Board's Launch Pad Writing Competitions Use code PAPERTEAM to get $15 OFF when you enter a Launch Pad Competition Special thanks to Evan Schmitt for helping us edit this episode. If you enjoyed this episode (and others), please consider leaving us an iTunes review at paperteam.co/itunes! :) You can find Paper Team on Twitter: Alex - @TVCalling Nick - @_njwatson If you have any questions, comments or feedback, you can e-mail us: ask@paperteam.co

Butterflies of Wisdom is a podcast where we want to share your story. We want to share your knowledge if you have a small business if you are an author or a Doctor, or whatever you are. With a disability or not, we want to share your story to inspire others. To learn more about Butterflies of Wisdom visit http://butterfliesofwisdom.weebly.com/ Be sure to FOLLOW this program https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wins-women-of-wisdom/id1060801905. To find out more about Challenge Aspen go to https://challengeaspen.org. To see how Win walk and about Ekso go to http://www.bridgingbionics.org/, or email Amanda Boxtel atamanda@bridgingbionics.org.  I forgot to say I also vlog in the style of Get Creative on youtube in short videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXGt2yaPsCGE0wRvMDIuOnQ On Butterflies of Wisdom today, Best-Selling Author, Win C welcomes Evan Schmitt. Raised in Washington State, living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Evan is a voice actor and a podcaster. Evan's day job is at a food co-op, where he is the perishable food buyer. Her passion is building businesses and acting for the microphone. To learn more about Evan visit http://evanschmitt.com/. To learn more about Win Kelly Charles visithttps://wincharles.wix.com/win-charles. To follow Win on Twitter go to @winkellycharles. To follow Win on Instagram go to winkcharles. To follow Win on Snapchat go to Wcharles422. Please send feedback to Win by email her at winwwow@gmail.com, or go tohttp://survey.libsyn.com/winwisdom and http://survey.libsyn.com/thebutterfly. To be on the show please fill out the intake at http://bit.ly/bow2017. Butterflies of Wisdom sponsored by Brought to you by Dr. Kelly, aka The FitShrink, who offers 1-on-1 and group wellness coaching for people of all abilities. She makes the psychology of wellness easy! You can learn more about her at fitshrink.com. Butterflies of Wisdom is also sponsored by Kittr a new social media tool that is bringing about new ways of posting on Twitter. It's fun, full of free content you can use, helps you schedule at the best times, is easy to use, and it will help you get more followers. Visit Kittr at gokittr.com. This is a 20% off code forwww.gracedbygrit.com. The code will be XOBUTTERFLIES. To learn about the magic of Siri go to https://www.udemy.com/writing-a-book-using-siri/?utm_campaign=email&utm_source=sendgrid.com&utm_medium=email. If you want to donate Butterflies of Wisdom, please send a PayPal donation to aspenrosearts@gmail.com or aspenwin@gmail.com. Please donate to Challenge Aspen or the Bridging Bionics Foundation. Please send a check in the mail so 100% goes to Bridging Bionics Foundation.    In the Memo section have people write: In honor of Win Charles. Please donate to the charity of your choice thank you in advance, Win.   Send to:   Challenge Aspen PO Box 6639 Snowmass Village, CO 81615 Or donate online at https://challengeaspen.org.   Bridging Bionics Foundation  PO Box 3767 Basalt, CO 81621   Thank you Win

Alex and Nick are joined by Buffy the Vampire Slayer expert Evan Schmitt to discuss visual storytelling in television writing through the prism of two episodes, "Hush" and "Restless". How do you convey information visually? How can you use imagery to illustrate story and character? What does exposition look like without dialogue? How creepy are the Gentlemen? What was the Cheese Man all about? The Paper Team invokes the First Slayer... SHOWNOTES Content 1 - About "Hush" and "Restless" (01:39) 2 - Narrative structures of "Hush" and "Restless" (11:08) 3 - Visual storytelling in "Hush" (18:33) 4 - Visual storytelling in "Restless" (40:53) Takeaways and Resources (56:37) Announcement Paper Team is going to WonderCon 2017! Join our panel "Writer Versus Fandom: TV Writer's Rooms and Fan Interaction" on Sunday, April 2 at 4:00PM in Room 209. Links Evan Schmitt on Instagram Paper Team panel at WonderCon 2017 Buffy the Vampire Slayer on DVD "Hush" (4x10 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer) "Restless" (4x22 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer) Shooting script for "Hush" (dated November 3, 1999) Shooting script for "Restless" (dated April 8, 2000) The Ascension "Primeval" (4x21 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer) "How Joss Whedon and the Buffy writers’ room broke episodes" - TV Calling The Gentlemen Cheese Man "Beer Bad" (4x05 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer) "Ozymandias" (5x14 - Breaking Bad) Christophe Beck Saint-Saëns' "Danse macabre" "The Zeppo" (3x13 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer) Ethan Rayne "Band Candy" (3x06 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer) Ripper Maggie Walsh "Graduation Day" (3x21-22 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer) "This Year's Girl" (4x15 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer) Dawn Summers Joyce Summers Mr. Pointy "The Gift" (5x22 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer) Resources Buffy World's episode index with shooting scripts "Tough Enough: Female Friendship and Heroism in Xena and Buffy" - Dr. Sharon Ross Dr. Sharon Ross (Columbia College Chicago) Special thanks to Alex Switzky for helping us edit this episode. If you enjoyed this episode (and others), please consider leaving us an iTunes review at paperteam.co/itunes! :) You can find Paper Team on Twitter: Alex - @TVCalling Nick - @_njwatson If you have any questions, comments or feedback, you can e-mail us: ask@paperteam.co

Gent Six Day Update, Women's Team Name Change and Optum Additions, this is Pro Cycling News with Evan Schmitt for November 20, 2014.

Six Day Racing, Vos Victorious and Upcoming World Cup, this is Pro Cycling News for November 18, 2014 with Evan Schmitt.

Track World Cup, Kentucky Cyclocross And Omega Pharma Merger. Pro Cycling News for November 10, 2014 with Evan Schmitt.

Historic World Tour Signing, World's Toughest Mountain Bike Race & 2017-18 US 'Cross Nationals. Pro Cycling News for Thursday November 6th, 2014 with Evan Schmitt.