How to sit back, relax, and enjoy the Apocalypse.
THE GOOD: This is the best web series about the end of the world evah.
THE GOODER: Funny as hell.
Category: Peer Production
Peer Productions: BRISBANE NUCLEAR OLYMPICS
And the winner for the absolutely best medium for presenting well-grounded but outrageous and biting satire is:
The interweb!
Check out this brilliantly painful short short by Duncan Elms and you’ll see what we mean.
Leesa Dean: Having a Hard Time Finishing a Script? This Might Be Why
Adventures of a Web Series Newbie – Chapter 69
by Leesa Dean
I am a perfectionist. You might not know it from my work, but it’s a trait that I and a lot of other writers/creatives share. Being a perfectionist can drive you crazy and can set up situations where you never ever finish anything. Which will also drive you crazy cause never finishing is like failing. Argh.
It is not atypical for me to write over 20 drafts of a script and continue to pick at it, even after I’ve submitted it or started production. Some people never finish. They’re like Sisyphus. Pushing that script up a hill and never getting there.
Luckily, when you’re writing for the web, because everything is short form and sorta disposable with insane deadlines and an unquenchable thirst for content, it forces you to just finish and not look back. Which, trust me, is the healthiest thing to do.
Leesa Dean: Adventures of a Web Series Newbie
Chapter 68 – The Directing Workshop
by Leeza Dean
Last Sunday I attended an intense twelve hour workshop on directing motion here in NYC. It was a part of a nationwide tour featuring a well-known commercial director, Vincent Laforet, and since I’m gearing up to finally buy a camera in by the end of the year and start shooting I thought it would be be really worthwhile and fun.
It was and, in part, wasn’t. It was a looooonnnggg day. I was up at 5:30 am because the people who ran the workshop suggested everyone arrive at 8:15 am to get situated, get a seat, etc.
I got there and it was packed, about 200 people. Some even flew in from Europe to attend. It appeared to be a mix of producers, crew people and directors. And given the recent publicity about how few women directors there were, it was kind of depressing to be one of, probably, 20 women there.
Peer Production: BROBOT
Maybe we’re just evil (We are minions, after all), but this made us laugh out loud:
This is just one of several episodes in the series. Peer production on a shoestring still tastes delish.