Category: Indie Film & Video

Bri Castellini: Be Professional – @brisownworld

Professor Castellini!

by Bri Castellini

Since college I’ve had a folder on my laptop called “Be Professional,” where I keep the various versions of my resume, my professional headshots (a thing I never thought I’d need), my business card InDesign file, and my cover letter templates.

Since childhood, I’ve had a pretty clear understanding of what my professional path would be. It was gonna be great- I’d go to a small liberal arts college somewhere in Oregon or Washington, graduate with a creative writing degree, write novels, and work as a barista until I was published.

It’s misleading to say that was always the plan, I guess. I had a brief flirtation with law school after my first year doing speech and debate in high school, and I dabbled with graphic design because I was an early (and young) adopter of Photoshop and rudimentary web design. In both cases the plan was still to be a published novelist (and maybe YouTuber- John Green I’m comin’ for ya), but I knew I needed a survival job that paid well in the meantime. read article

Indie Video: Trauma & Mental Health from a Female Perspective

Not only is the subject matter of this article fascinating, so is the perspective of the writer, Jenna Dorst. You don’t see this kind of thing on Old Media, or even Big Media, gang.

Exploring Trauma: VOD and Web Series Picks
by Jenna Dorsi

In media, women’s pain is usually used to motivate men. So there’s a real demand for nuanced portrayals of female trauma, which looks at what women are actually going through — as opposed to how their distress impacts some guy. read article

‘Mr. Jack’ and the Future of Entertainment/Art

by TVWriter™ Press Service

The French call it; Raison D’être which literally means ‘purpose.’ The phrase is infamous for the associated in philosophical circles with the trial of Socrates, where the question is asked; “Is the life lived sans Raison D’être worth redemption?”

Mr. Jack, a New Media series from writer turned director Mick Lexington takes this age-old question and asks it in the modern-day backdrop of The LES of Manhattan, the last bastion of Bohemianism in New York City, warts and all. read article

What is Audio Drama Anyway?

Frequent visitors to TVWriter™ and People’s Pilot entrants over the last few years have been reading a lot about “audio drama” and the boom that has started within the “audio series” genre. (Although the boom very often is referred to as “podcasting,” broadening the traditional definition of that last word.

In order to clarify what audio drama is, we’ve turned to writer, actor, director, and producer Pete Lutz of Narada Radio Company (“radio!” another term of course for, erm, podcast).  Here’s what Pete has to say.

Let Me Tell You About Audio Drama
by Pete Lutz

When you engage with an audio drama, here’s what happens: From the opening sequence, the dialogue, music and sounds combine to form a picture that only you can see. read article

Bob Tinsley on The Voice First Movement

LB’S NOTE: A few weeks ago, Fake Video, made possible by comparatively  easy to use software that can replace people’s faces and expressions with those of others without an overt sign of doctoring, was the latest Big Scary Thing.

Now, however, we’re talking about something even more fascinating – to me anyway – AI voice replacement so natural that, at the very least, an awful lot of actors may soon be out of jobs. TVWriter™ Bob Tinsley tells the tale (in his own voice).

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