Time to get all googly over this excellently written and show female superhero series which starts off with a neat little ep about a female superhero trying to sell a series about…well, you get the idea. And, in case you don’t:
Directed by: Jeff Kornberg
Written by: Jordan Zakarin
Created by: Jordan Zakarin & Ali Vingiano
Time now for one of the most interesting web series openers we’ve seen in a long time, written and directed by Andrew Wright:
The YouTube description of BELUSHI’S TOILET calls it as a web series about stoners dedicated to creating the perfect party drug in a future where there are no anti-drug laws. But we gotta level with you. We have trouble thinking about this as a mere “show.” We see BELUSHI’S TOILET as an installation, by which we mean it’s the kind of thing we would expect to find in a museum. Or Andy Warhol’s bathroom.
This week has been nuts. Insanely busy writing, planning, setting stuff up. Had three meetings scheduled. Two were cancelled/postponed. And the third was a bust. This summer has been interesting…and challenging.
The third meeting wasn’t for the TOP SECRET big project I’ve been working on this past year. It was with a small level agent who reached out through a friend. We chatted via email and I agreed to meet for drinks. Full disclosure: While I am hoping to connect with an agent, in general, I’ve found that small level ones–meaning ones not connected with a large agency, or formerly from a large agency and starting their own–are normally a waste of time. So why’d I take the meeting? Two reasons: 1) My friend asked me to (this agent is trying to build a cool client roster) and 2) bigger agents aren’t exactly banging down my door right now.
The signs that the meeting was gonna be a bust were all over the place. Here are Four Bad Things that were tip-offs that this was not meant to be:
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All of us at BECOMING RICARDO want to share the latest news: Episode 4 of Season One is premiering today, Thursday, August 7 at 10 am on our website.The title of our latest masterwork is “And Then There Was Steven”. In this episode Jesenia finds herself featured in a major tabloid because Ricardo is quickly becoming the hot new Latino lead on “Crime, Law, and Justice.” All this fame seems to be getting to Jesenia’s head, but she is quickly distracted by a possible new love interest, when she meets Steven Castillo. Thing don’t go as smoothly as they should, though, because someone seems to be stalking Jesenia’s every move – which makes living her double life even harder than it’s been!
For those unfamiliar with BECOMING RICARDO, it’s a web series that gives Latino actors the opportunity to showcase their talent in a way we don’t typically see on TV or film these days. With the release of this NY Daily News article, it becomes overwhelmingly important for Latinos to create their own content complete with the highest quality, solid writing, and the kind of candor that seems hard to find in entertainment outlets that feature us.
This has been a crazy week. My cat Lamont suddenly got very sick so I stopped working for a few days–running back and forth to the vet, buying medicine, etc. Meanwhile, on Friday afternoon when he seemed be better, I went out to play tennis and blow off some steam and BAM, the guy I was hitting with accidentally (I’m hoping accidentally anyway) bashed in my finger when he mistakenly hit a ball towards me at about 70 mph. Luckily, the finger didn’t break, wasn’t on my right hand or a thumb (which would’ve really freaked me out for drawing) but was swollen, bruised and I was NOT a happy camper. I also was forced to take a few extra days off while my finger and the cat healed.
Meanwhile, a friend who has an idea for a web series but hasn’t written anything yet asked me about the best way to proceed. I told her to outline everything. She’d never done it before (she’s written one movie script using the “I’m just winging it” method) and was a little intimidating by getting right in a short format. She also wants to ultimately break into tv writing.
Since I was laid up, I had the time to help break down what’s involved for her and realized, ok, these tips might also be useful for other web creators/aspiring web creators…if (high drama), I can ever type again. I’ll cut to the chase: I can type again. And since outlining is an important part of being a tv writer, it’s also a crucial skill to develop if you’re attempting to go that route. Creating/writing/outlining a web series is a great place to start. So, hobbled finger and all, here are four tips to get started: