Cartoon: MAKING THE LEAP

We’re thinking that this cartoon applies to just about everything worth doing…but especially to taking the leap into TV:

Grant Snider's "Incidental Comics" does it again!
Grant Snider’s “Incidental Comics” does it again!

Relax, Peer Producers, the Robots will Finish Your Film for You

There are two ways to look at the news in the following article.

Either it’s a case of, “Wow, all our video-creating prayers have been answered!”

Or… read article

Dawn McElligott: Getting My 5-Minute Program On the Air

by Dawn McElligott

Fear of failure is often the biggest obstacle for a wannabe filmmaker. But MiND TV, a non-profit company, was asking its viewers to make their own 5-minute video for broadcast to millions of people in greater Philadelphia. How could I lose? By not even trying.

Last June I purchased a Canon Vixia HD camcorder for about $ 300. I saved money on lawyers by downloading standard photography and location release templates free of charge.

In my newly adopted hometown of Oxford, Pa, I started videotaping interviews with community leaders regarding their efforts to revitalize its downtown and surrounding area. read article

Herbie J Pilato: A lovely little film called “The Clock”

by Herbie J Pilato

A couple of movies after she went off to see The Wizard of Oz, and a few films before he became one of the Strangers on A Train, Judy Garland and Robert Walker (father to Robert Walker, Jr. Charlie X of original Star Trek fame) co-starred in a beautiful little motion picture titled, The Clock (released in 1945).

Garland played the sweet Alice Mayberry of New York City, and Walker played a soldier named Corporal Joe Allen, who visited (by train) the Big Apple on furlough.

They met when she broke her high heel by the escalator he was standing next to. read article

TVWriter™ Top Posts for the Week Ending 7/4/14

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Here they are, the most viewed TVWriter™ posts during the past week:

Meet The 2014 PEOPLE’S PILOT Semi-Finalists! read article