Category: Peer Production

10 Things I Learned Producing a Web Series

The following ultra informative article about producing, prepping, and just plain being in showbiz is cleverly disguised as hype for its writer’s web series, CONFESSIONS OF….  Don’t be fooled: This is good stuff.

And, so, actually, is  CONFESSIONS OF A BARTENDER. Whadaya know?

by Cheryl Texiera

Anyone who has ever produced anything knows the title ‘producer’ can also mean: writer, director, actor, wardrobe, casting director, prop master – you get the picture. Amongst all those titles, I got the lucky experience of adding ‘editor’ to my list. read article

Indie Video: ALTERNATIVE VIEWPOINT-CANCELLING HEADPHONES

Satire is alive and well on the interwebs, especially when it comes to peer production/indie video. Here’s a thought-provoking case in point:

From We The Internet read article

Indie Video: ARE YOU FIT FOR COMMAND?

This is fucking funny. Indie video scores again!

More cool stuff by the creators of this little masterwork!

Leesa Dean: Digital is Where It’s At!

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Adventures in Digital Series Land #115
by Leesa Dean

An intense couple of weeks.  Am in the final stretch of post for my series and hoping I’ll be done in a few months. This part is a bear.  Each episode has many pods that are strung together to make a narrative–approximately 35 per episode. To say it’s been challenging to manipulate them all is an understatement. Plus, I’m reanimating certain bits just to make them tighter and brighter.

Meanwhile, also, about a month or so away from completing a pilot script. There’s a lot going on in this particular show–and the character development is raking me over the coals because I want them to be idiosyncratic and compelling.  Plus, I have limited time to write because of production so my days been nuts so it’s been a challenge.

But a few things happened recently that further legitimatized the digital series realm and it’s the wind that keeping this operation afloat! read article

Indie Video: WELCOME TO KICKSTARTER

Regular TVWriter™ visitors know how highly we value Kickstarter and other crowdfunding sites. (Honest, we do!) But in the interest of fairness here’s another point of view, which we would’ve Kickstarted in a minute given the chance:

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