Inside Disney’s Animation Secrets: How Brandon Violette Crafts Stories That Come to Life
Ashley
Gotcha. So just for our audience, give a little just description of what a script coordinator does. And how do you not be the annoying script coordinator that is clearly there just to advance his own writing, you know, and this is just what does it take just as far as your intuition, sort of social graces in those rooms?
Brandon Violette
Yeah, that’s a great question. Script coordinator is basically a writer’s assistant. You’d hear that in live action. Script coordinator is basically there in the writer’s room with the writers’ taking notes. You’re responsible for distributing all the materials, the scripts, the outlines, premises for every episode to the network. And so, you’re the one with all the Excel spreadsheets of all the tracking the schedules, all the tables, where things are out with every episode. And you’re the one that spends a little more time with the writers. You do the notes, things like that. And so, you’re there, kind of assisting the writer’s room and how to get seen, if you will, as a script coordinator without being annoying. I was lucky that the head writer on that show early on knew, of course, I wanted to write. Everybody who wants to be script coordinator eventually wants to write. And he said, if you have any ideas, feel free to throw them out there. So, he opened that door a little bit for me. And that was a big deal because you don’t want to overstep. And you don’t want to say something “stupid”. And then everyone wonders, well, how did you even get this job? And you know, but the fact that he did that, I felt seen and kind of removed the pressure of like – oh, do they know, can I speak up and all that like internal dialogue. And so, you just kind of wait for the moment and you do it. But I was lucky. But if someone doesn’t do that, for you, I would pull that head writer aside and say – Hey, how do you feel if I spoke up every now and then if I have something that appropriate, and I think that’s a good way to do it. I’m just pulling that person aside and ask them.
