{"id":547,"date":"2019-09-05T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T00:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/?p=547"},"modified":"2019-09-06T03:08:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T03:08:07","slug":"member-profile-karen-melvin-gets-to-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/member-profiles\/member-profile-karen-melvin-gets-to-the-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Member Profile: Karen Melvin Gets To the Point"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your name and your usual job title(s)?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karen Melvin\u2013&nbsp;Producer \/ Line Producer&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How did you get started working in factual TV?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was introduced to documentary theory and practice while studying Communications at SFU. My first gig was office reception at Paperny Films.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What do you consider to be your career highlight(s)?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winning the Audience Choice Award at SXSW for \u201cLove Shines\u201d. I was the Producer on this doc feature about Canadian singer\/songwriter Ron Sexsmith.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the strangest thing you\u2019ve had to do working in factual TV?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I haven\u2019t found anything particularly strange. Maybe that\u2019s why I\u2019ve lasted in the industry so long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What\u2019s something interesting\/unusual about you that most people don\u2019t know?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a pretty good basketball shot.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your ultimate career aspiration?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Working on more feature length documentaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s your name and your usual job title(s)? Karen Melvin\u2013&nbsp;Producer \/ Line Producer&nbsp; How did you get started working in factual TV? I was introduced to documentary theory and practice while studying Communications at SFU. My first gig was office reception at Paperny Films.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; What do you consider to be your career highlight(s)? Winning the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}