I didn’t really know the ins and outs of how the Emmy nomination process worked until I got to be a tiny part of it.
I’d heard that actors (or studios/agents/etc.) (and others) had to submit themselves. You can’t just trust people will see your work. You have to say, “Look at it!”
And this year, I got to do the submitting process for editing.
Basically, when the window opens up to apply, I had to submit a bunch of stuff – the video of the credits from the episode so they can see I’m actually credited, the video itself I’m submitting… And there’s some paperwork involved stating what you’re submitting, date it aired, time, channel, all that jazz.
And you even have to pay a couple hundred dollars just to be considered. Or, if you’re a member of the television academy you get one entry for free… So, I joined this year. I was only eligible for junior membership for the time being – which is still enough to get a free entry. Ba-bam!
I don’t know if people are always part of this, but for me, there was a whole back-and-forth process of them checking things. They may reached out to me with various questions.
For instance, first, you get the confirmation that everything is received and that it’s time to double check it. So, I did. And everything looked fine. The deadline passed. But then apparently there’s this second secret deadline… Because as long as I was in by the first deadline (which I was), then when they go through with a fine tooth comb, if they find something that’s not right, you have a whole ‘nother deadline to finish.
They deemed the first thing I submitted not eligible… I mainly edited the clips/montages that played in during the first act.. Or everyone once in a while I edited act 3 to time…. Even if we had an exceptionally montage/clip heavy first act, or if we had a tough act 3 with a lot of cuts in it – didn’t matter. Those were deemed not eligible. Field pieces only was what they decided.
And this is where I’ll pick up tomorrow!