NEW Sounds from the Cold — interviews with supervising sound editor David Lewis Yewdall and special sound effects designer Alan Howarth NEW Between the Lines — an interview with novelization
author Alan Dean Foster Audio Commentary by director John Carpenter and actor Kurt Russell John Carpenter's The Thing: Terror Takes Shape — a documentary on the making of THE THING featuring interviews with John Carpenter, Kurt Russell, special effects make - up designer Rob Bottin, legendary matte artist Albert Whitlock plus members of the cast and crew (80 minutes — SD) Outtakes (5 minutes — SD) Vintage featurettes from the electronic press kit featuring interviews with John Carpenter, Kurt Russell and Rob Bottin (12 minutes — SD) Vintage featurettes — The Making of a Chilling Tale and The Making of THE THING (1982 — 14 minutes — SD) Vintage Product Reel — contains a promotional condensed version of the film with additional footage not in the film (19 minutes — SD) Vintage Behind - the - Scenes footage (2 minutes — SD) Annotated Production Archive — Production Art and Storyboards, Location
Scouting, Special Make - up Effects,
Post Production (48 minutes — SD) Network TV Broadcast version of THE THING (92 minutes — SD) Teaser Trailer Theatrical Trailers (U.S. and German Trailer) TV spots Radio Spots Still Gallery (behind - the - scenes photos, posters and lobby cards)
-- Formatting HTML newsletters — Formatting books for Smashwords — Research about the business side of being an
author (e.g., how Street Teams work, how to market a book in a foreign language, podcasts that might be a good fit to have you as a guest, etc.)--
Scouting for bloggers to send book review requests to — Pitching to those bloggers and tracking responses — Formatting (and perhaps light editing) of blog
posts, or organizing content — Managing your Street Team Facebook group (posing questions to keep the group engaged, answering questions, sharing upcoming news, etc.)-- Creating box sets in Scrivener from individual novels — Moving works translated into a foreign language from Word into Scrivener — Scheduling tweets and Facebook
posts (ones that don't require your direct input or engagement with your audience)-- Transcribing audio interviews or notes — For non-fiction
authors, VAs can do an enormous number of tasks around webinars or other training you offer (e.g., planning and booking the event, scheduling guests, managing registration lists, dealing with the back - end technology, creating and proofing slide decks, sending out advance information packages to the trainees, and then sending out follow - up information to the trainees, etc..)