Category: Indie Film & Video

New Series STATE OF SYN is as Innovative as You Get

Not a PR montage - this is an actual scene from the 1st episode
Not a PR montage – this is an actual scene from the 1st episode

Hulu has spared, well, it’s spared a great deal of expense, as a matter of fact, in bringing its new series, STATE OF SYN to the interweb/our TVs. But the show isn’t your garden variety cheapo. It’s a kind of fumetti, a live-action comic strip with real actors, including FIREFLY’s Jewel Staite supplying the voices over their limited animation photo-images.

STATE OF SYN debuted on Hulu.Com last Saturday, with all its episodes in place, ready to stream. And while TVWriter™ wasn’t all that thrilled with the sound and the acting – very Saturday morning animation, kids, sorry – we love the potential, especially as it applies to indie film and video makers/peer producers.

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Peer Production: HELLA is Better than Its Title

…Which ain’t bad at all, really.

Know how we keep telling you to move to L.A. if you want to write for TV? Well, here’s a show about people who’ve done just that. Yeppers, gang, the lid is off, the truth is out: It’s hell.

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Peer Production: DANGER: HUMANS

Ah, the wonders of peer production!

Why the universe fears us…and all 0f this is true:

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Leesa Dean: Adventures of a Web Series Newbie

yearofyesChapter 41 – The Year of Yes?
by Leesa Dean

Hope everybody had a great New Years! I did, went to two great parties. Great food, great mix of people, just what I needed to start the year off right.

And in the middle of it all, guess what? We got a celeb to work on the show! Wow.

After about a month of trying, it worked so easily. Contacted his manager, he had seenChilltown, loved it and wanted to be involved. No, he’s not a huge household name, but he has enough of one to add some more credibility to the project (the BIG TOP SECRET PROJECT I’ve been mentioning here). read article

The International Academy of Web Television 2013 Awards

IAWTV Awards Finalby Team TVWRITER™ Press Service

For the, you know, best, brightest, funnest shows made especially for, and appearing on, our beloved interwebs:

Best Writing (Comedy) – Squaresville – Matt Enlow
Best Writing (Drama) – The Booth at the End, Season 2 – Christopher Kubasik
Best Writing (Non-Fiction) – The Flog – Felicia Day

Best Animated Series – Red vs. Blue
Best Cinematography – H+ The Digital Series – Brett Pawlak
Best Comedy Series – Squaresville
Best Costume Design – The League of S.T.E.A.M. – The League of S.T.E.A.M.
Best Design (Art Direction/Production) – Continuum – Eric Whitney
Best Directing (Comedy) – My Gimpy Life – Sean Becker
Best Directing (Drama) – Anyone But Me – Tina Cesa Ward
Best Directing (Non-Fiction) – The Flog – Sean Becker
Best Documentary Series – PRODIGIES
Best Drama Series – Leap Year
Best Editing – Continuum – Blake Calhoun
Best Educational Series – Engineer Your Space
Best Ensemble Performance – Squaresville
Best Female Performance (Comedy) – My Gimpy Life – Teal Sherer Teal
Best Female Performance (Drama) – Blue – Julia Stiles – Blue
Best Host (Live) – What’s Trending – Shira Lazar
Best Host (Taped) – Daily Grace – Grace Helbig
Best Hosted (Live) Series – What’s Trending
Best Hosted (Taped) Series – Daily Grace
Best Interactive/Social Media Experience – The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
Best Live Event – Bill Maher: CrazyStupidPolitics
Best Makeup/Special Effects – The League of S.T.E.A.M. – The League of S.T.E.A.M.
Best Male Performance (Comedy) – The Jeff Lewis 5-Minute Comedy Hour – Jeff Lewis
Best Male Performance (Drama) – The Booth at the End, Season 2 – Xander Berkeley – Leed
Best News Series – The Philip DeFranco Show
Best Online Channel – Nerdist Channel
Best Original Music – Cost of Capital – Rob Gokee
Best Supplemental Content – Red vs. Blue
Best Variety Series – Rhett & Link
Best Visual Effects (Digital) – H+ The Digital Series – Faction Creative and The Sequence Group: VFX Supervisor Ian Kirby; Digital Effects Supervisor Chris van Dyck; VFX Producer Caleb Bouchard read article