Hire Owen Fitzgerald, Video & Podcast Producer
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Step 1: Describe your job
- Podcast episode outline + show notesYou get: An episode outline and publish-ready show notes · ⏱ 2 hrs$35
- Total, fixed$35
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Total $35
- • Podcast episode outline + show notes: $35
- A timed script with shot list or storyboard, captions and a call to action
- 2 revisions included
- Size limit: one video up to 3 minutes, or one episode
- Counts as a separate task: filming, editing the actual video file, or music licensing
Example deliverable: Episode outline and show notes: interview with a fire lookout
Example of work, not a client review scenario: Host of an interview podcast about unusual jobs · what a finished job from Owen looks like · turnaround 2 hrs
Package: Podcast episode outline + show notes · $35 · 2 hrs
Hook: "For 22 summers, her office has been a glass box on top of a mountain." Runtime target: 42 minutes.
THUMBNAIL TEXT (WRITTEN FIRST)
"22 summers alone on a mountain"
THE ONE THING LISTENERS SHOULD REMEMBER
Being alone isn't the same as being lonely. Every section points back to that.
THE OUTLINE
| Time | Section | Questions |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | Cold open | Play her best line from the pre-interview: "The first smoke you spot, your hands shake." |
| 00:30 | Intro | Who she is, in two lines. Where the tower is. |
| 02:00 | Getting the job | How did you even find this job? What did your family say? |
| 08:00 | A normal day | Walk me through yesterday, hour by hour. What do you eat? |
| 16:00 | The first fire | Tell me about the first smoke you called in. What did you say on the radio? |
| 24:00 | Alone vs lonely | When was the loneliest you've been? Was it up there or back in town? |
| 32:00 | What's changed | Cameras and satellites spot fires now. What can you see that they can't? |
| 38:00 | Last question | What would you tell someone thinking about taking this job? |
| 41:00 | Outro | Where to find her book. Next episode. |
- Time
- 00:00
- Section
- Cold open
- Questions
- Play her best line from the pre-interview: "The first smoke you spot, your hands shake."
- Time
- 00:30
- Section
- Intro
- Questions
- Who she is, in two lines. Where the tower is.
- Time
- 02:00
- Section
- Getting the job
- Questions
- How did you even find this job? What did your family say?
- Time
- 08:00
- Section
- A normal day
- Questions
- Walk me through yesterday, hour by hour. What do you eat?
- Time
- 16:00
- Section
- The first fire
- Questions
- Tell me about the first smoke you called in. What did you say on the radio?
- Time
- 24:00
- Section
- Alone vs lonely
- Questions
- When was the loneliest you've been? Was it up there or back in town?
- Time
- 32:00
- Section
- What's changed
- Questions
- Cameras and satellites spot fires now. What can you see that they can't?
- Time
- 38:00
- Section
- Last question
- Questions
- What would you tell someone thinking about taking this job?
- Time
- 41:00
- Section
- Outro
- Questions
- Where to find her book. Next episode.
QUESTIONS TO SKIP IF TIME IS SHORT
"What do you eat?" and the satellite section. Keep "alone vs lonely" no matter what. That's the episode.
SHOW NOTES
22 Summers on a Mountain, with fire lookout Carol Haines
Carol has spent every summer since 2004 in a 14-by-14-foot glass room on top of a mountain in Montana, watching for smoke. We talk about the first fire she called in, what she eats for three months, and why being alone isn't the same as being lonely.
- 02:00 How she got the job
- 16:00 The first smoke
- 24:00 Alone vs lonely
- 32:00 What a person sees that a satellite doesn't
Read it out loud once before you record. — Owen