{"id":2146,"date":"2012-05-07T13:47:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T17:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bsuenglish.wordpress.com\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2022-02-16T15:46:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T20:46:34","slug":"from-the-english-department-to-the-entertainment-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/2012\/05\/07\/from-the-english-department-to-the-entertainment-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Lydia Storie: From English to the Entertainment Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Lydia Storie graduated from Ball State in 2006 with a B.A. in English and History. She also holds an M.A. in Cinema Studies from New York University\u2019s Tisch School of the Arts.<\/em><\/p>\n

Back in 2012, we published this blog post by Storie. At the time, she was the Director of Development for Original Media at a New York City-based independent production company behind the films <\/em>The Squid and The Whale.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Since then, she’s moved up in the world! Now she’s the Vice President of Development for Muse Entertainment.\u00a0Based now in Los Angeles, she oversees the company\u2019s slate of television series and limited series projects targeted to the American market, and has most recently developed, packaged, and sold series pitches to Netflix, YouTube Premium, NBC and WGN America. <\/em><\/p>\n

Her favorite part of her job is identifying books to adapt for film and television. Sound like a great gig? Then read her post below and come to the Star Party on Oct. 29, 2018 at 6:30 PM in the Stu East Multipurpose Room. She’s the keynote speaker!\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Unless you\u2019ve been holed up in the stacks at the Ball State library for the past year, you\u2019ve probably heard something about The Hunger Games<\/em>: the movie, which is based on Suzanne Collins\u2019 young adult novel, recently opened to the third-largest weekend box office ever.\u00a0 What\u2019s interesting to me (and maybe you) is that the only two movies that, at the time, had done better also originated from literary source material: the final movie in the Harry Potter franchise and The Dark Knight <\/em>(yes, comics count). [UPDATE:\u00a0The Avengers<\/em> has now shattered the record.]<\/p>\n

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Last month also brought with it one of the most-hyped deals in entertainment-land so far this year: Universal and Focus Features just acquired of the film rights to E.L. James\u2019 popular erotica novel Fifty Shades of Grey<\/em>.\u00a0 News of this book deal is staring at me from the cover of the April 6 issue of Entertainment Weekly<\/em>, which just so happens to be sitting on the desk near me as I type.<\/p>\n

Given that EW<\/em> is a consumer magazine, not an industry trade paper, it\u2019s clear that most media lovers today are aware of the long-standing relationship Hollywood has had with books.\u00a0 I mean, there\u2019s a whole Oscar category dedicated to \u201cAdapted Screenplay.\u201d\u00a0 And many bookstores devote whole tables or shelves to \u201ctie-ins\u201d \u2013 those titles that bear the \u201cNow a Major Motion Picture\u201d banner across their covers.<\/p>\n

But what does all this have to do with me, you may ask?<\/p>\n

No, I\u2019m not going to tell you to write a bestseller and hope to sell the film & TV rights for six or seven figures (although that\u2019s certainly something to dream about).\u00a0 The point I want to make here is that books can be big business for the entertainment industry \u2013 as a result, there is a whole army of people working behind the scenes in film and television who read books and get paid for it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m one of them.<\/p>\n

More specifically, as Director of Development for the production company Original Media, my job is to find projects for my company to produce and figure out how best to sell them to television networks.\u00a0 Many of the projects we are developing started with underlying literary material: books, articles, and plays.\u00a0 Which means that a good portion of my work life is spent finding and reading books we might want to option.<\/p>\n

Ten years ago, when I was starting out as a newly declared English major at Ball State, I had no idea that this is where I would end up.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t really have a defined career plan, and I rarely entertained the notion that I would \u201cdo\u201d something with my degree.\u00a0 I decided to major in English for one simple reason: I love to read.\u00a0 And I figured that it would be my only chance to spend four solid years reading books.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not to say I didn\u2019t have ideas about what I wanted to do as a profession.\u00a0 In fact, I started out at Ball State in the Telecommunications department, because part of me has always wanted to work in television.\u00a0 I love TV almost as much as I love books.\u00a0 I retained TCOM as a minor, but by the end of my freshman year I realized that I wanted to take advantage of my time in college to pursue the liberal arts.\u00a0 I knew majoring in English (and eventually also in History) wouldn\u2019t \u201cprepare\u201d me for a specific career, per se, unless I wanted to go into academia.\u00a0 But I\u2019m a firm believer that there is incredible value in the skills you get from concentrated study centered on reading, writing, and debating.\u00a0 (Anyway, Oxford agrees with me.)<\/p>\n

As it turns out, these are skills I use on a daily basis: I read, I write about what I read, and I try to convince people (my bosses, agents, writers, or network executives) that what I\u2019m reading is worth investing time or money in.\u00a0 Additionally, I research the current entertainment landscape to see what\u2019s been done and what\u2019s being done, what\u2019s working and what\u2019s not.\u00a0 I think strategically about how to package and pitch our projects, and I analyze new ideas to assess how they might (or might not) fit into the marketplace.\u00a0 In short, I regularly rely on my critical thinking abilities.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s challenging work at times \u2013 you have to read a lot of bad to get to the good, for one thing \u2013 but I\u2019ve had a lot of practice thinking critically about content.\u00a0 From my internship to my work as an assistant and now a development executive, reading and evaluating material has been a significant aspect of my career thus far, and it all started back in the classrooms at Ball State.\u00a0 So while there might not be a direct link between majoring in English and working in television development, I feel that my education set the stage for me to succeed in this profession.<\/p>\n

Plus, it\u2019s nice to know that there are lots of ways to work with books, even if you don\u2019t want to write or publish them.\u00a0 Neither of those options ever appealed much to me, so I feel pretty fortunate to have found a niche in the professional world that blends my love of books with my love of TV.\u00a0 My particular job isn\u2019t the only one that does: the entertainment industry, for one, also relies on readers (for scripts and books), book scouts who track the publishing world for their clients, and book-to-film agents who negotiate deals like the one just made for Fifty Shades of Grey<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And if you\u2019re not all that concerned with whether your job description includes \u201creading novels,\u201d there\u2019s other work in entertainment for people with a liberal arts background.\u00a0 It\u2019s all about telling stories, and isn\u2019t that in some way the essence of what drew us to the major in the first place?\u00a0 Plenty of the producers and writers I know studied English.\u00a0 It provides a solid foundation in storytelling.<\/p>\n

So, like my fellow alumni who have posted here, I encourage you to think outside of the box.\u00a0 Your English degree can take you many places.\u00a0 The skills and knowledge you have now may not translate into a career as obviously as, say, a degree from the Teacher\u2019s College, but that\u2019s part of the fun. You get to decide what they do for you.<\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m off to find the next Hunger Games<\/em>.\u00a0 Just like the rest of Hollywood\u2026<\/p>\n

Connect with Lydia Storie on LinkedIn<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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