{"id":133,"date":"2018-05-24T02:41:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T02:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/?p=133"},"modified":"2018-05-24T03:07:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T03:07:12","slug":"deborah-wilton-the-candy-bowl-is-always-full","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/member-profiles\/deborah-wilton-the-candy-bowl-is-always-full\/","title":{"rendered":"Deborah Wilton – ‘The Candy Bowl is Always Full’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What\u2019s your name and your usual job title(s)?<\/strong><\/h4>\n
My name’s Deborah Wilton.\u00a0 I don’t have a ‘usual’ job title – it’s a roll-with-the-punches industry, so I’ve filled a variety of creative roles.\u00a0 I’ve been credited as a writer, story editor, story producer, senior story producer, creative producer, and series producer, and I’m happy to work in any of those positions.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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How did you get started working in factual TV?<\/b><\/h4>\n
A friend and colleague of mine from the scripted world was working on a reality series and knew I was looking for a job, and was kind enough to put my name forward. I loved reality TV as a viewer – I’m not kidding, I watched A LOT of it and still do – but my experience was all in scripted.\u00a0 To say that I bluffed in the interview wouldn’t be fair; I umm perhaps hyper-confidently asserted my ability to switch genres.\u00a0 The producers took a gamble on me, and I came on as a junior, even though I’d been senior in my scripted roles – but that was a-okay because I was keen to grow my skill set and aware that I had an enormous amount to learn.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What do you consider to be your career highlight(s)?<\/b><\/h4>\n
I feel I should be able to answer this with the triumphant equivalent of ‘the birth of my children’ but gosh, I’m going to give a really wimpy answer – it’s every time someone cries in a screening.\u00a0 For all the public eye-rolling about reality TV, I’ve been lucky enough to work on a number of shows that really tugged at the heart strings.\u00a0 And when you look across at a colleague – or an executive! – and they’re wiping away tears, and you know that you really made someone\u00a0feel<\/i>\u00a0something… it’s powerful.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What\u2019s the strangest thing you\u2019ve had to do working in factual TV?\u00a0<\/b><\/h4>\n
This isn’t strange, per se, but as a job it was memorable.\u00a0 Usually story editors aren’t in the field – we hide away with the editors in edit suites and mutually indulge our introvert tendencies and love of quality chocolate.\u00a0 But when I worked on\u00a0Shannon & Sophie\u00a0<\/i>we followed the story from shoot to suite, and that meant several trips to LA to Shannon Tweed’s home.\u00a0 There was a point when I was crouched by Gene Simmons’ fridge to stay out of shot, and I thought of all the KISS dolls my friends had as kids and how if you’d told me I’d end up making story notes hiding behind a cupboard in The Demon’s kitchen I’d never have believed you.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What\u2019s something interesting\/unusual about you that most people don\u2019t know?<\/b><\/h4>\n
When I was a teen, I taught Sunday School. I don’t think I was fired exactly, but there was a mutual decision that it wasn’t really my strength.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What\u2019s your ultimate career aspiration?\u00a0<\/b><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
I think all writers dream of creating an incredible, paradigm-shifting show from scratch and bringing it to life, scripted or unscripted.\u00a0 But in terms of the factual production ladder, if a job takes me too far away from story, I’m not really interested.\u00a0 Rummaging around in footage and getting my hands dirty – or facilitating that for other story editors and editors – that’s where the fun is for me.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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