Month: July 2018

Web Series: ‘You’re The Pest’

Remember a couple of years back when we were lovin’ on a quaint little series called You’re the Worst? Well, since then You’re the Worst has, in our opinion, kind of spun off in the worst direction possible…as in continued doing what it was doing until becoming just another same old, same old TV series.

But happy days for discerning video nerds who believe in truth, justice, and new weirdness whenever possible are now here, in another little show (as in teeny budget) with big smarts (as in terrific writing, acting, even premising.) read article

Bri Castellini: How to Write a Script That Makes People Want to Work with You – @brisownworld

We love it when we find articles by Bri Castellini that we didn’t know existed. Like this great one on how to gather a great crew for your latest indie effort:

by Bri Castellini

Not being able to pay your cast and crew is an issue shared by many web series creators, and here at Stareable we’ve written about that extensively. We’ve covered what you can offer instead of payment, how to fundraise so you could pay, and even how to make your second season/second project better than the first so it still seems worth pouring passion into for people other than you. read article

Cartoon: ‘Common Traits of all Great Writers’

If this doesn’t make you a fan of daily comic strip Pearls Before Swine,HERE a trip certainly should do the trick. Even when it isn’t talking about writing (i.e., most of the time) it’s damn clever.

Indie Film & Video: Best Puppet Film Ever

A day in the life of a Husband and a Wife, living in a world of giant monsters

Inspired by Bri Castellini’s post last week about being a weird filmmaker and our more recent awareness of the upcoming and sure-to-be-very-very-weird The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot, which is – of course – in line to become the favorite film of all time for TVWriter™’s #1 Troublesome Sun Munchman, we’ve just watched the short film above and are wriggling with excitement.

This puppet show – yeppers, it really is a puppet show, but it takes awhile for that to sink in due to the brilliant cinemagraphy – should have you moaning happily, or at least purring, for hours.

So don’t just sit there trying to figure out our grammar, click the link below and enjoy! read article

What You Need to Know About the TV Biz in China

Time for an interesting and informative article (if you can get past the all-too-trendy references to TV production as “television content creation”) in the most populous market for, well, everything, in the world today.

Hmm, after reading this we’re wondering when the call will go out for tariffs on Chinese TV…

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