Crowdfunding: ON THE ROCKS is Off to a Big Start on Kickstarter

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For the past couple of months, Andrew Orillion has been posting about all the steps in the creation of ON THE ROCKS,  a web series he’s involved in. We at TVWriter™ have been rooting – and sometimes bleeding – for the show all the while, and we’re proud to be able to announce that last weekend ON THE ROCKS passed two big milestones.

Milestone #1:

The first episode of ON THE ROCKS, “Old Fasioned,” is now on the web and ready for your viewing pleasure. read article

Peer Production: MUTE is a Standout!

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The brilliant creators at the Dutch animation studio Job, Joris & Marieke, have made what is, to us, one of the most significant/beautiful/meaningful short animations in, um history. This is a major interweb highlight and, if we were running an interweb video competition for Best of 2014 would be the early favorite for the crown.

Leesa Dean: Adventures of a Web Series Newbie

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One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned during the process of teaching myself how to animate, getting Chilltown off the ground and promoting it has been: Fear is a Liar.

I was so worried, initially, that nothing would turn out right. That everything would be a fiasco, it literally kept me up at night, at times. But, ultimately, the believe that people would respond to what I did prevailed. And, people did. As they say in the Lottery, “Gotta be in it, to win it.”

I know a lot of people who are writers or, even, wannabe writers who are wracked with fear of failure. And it prevents them from ever completing anything. I used to be friendly with someone who ran around telling everyone he was a writer. The truth is, he never really wrote anything. He was too scared of being judged and failing. So he’s wasted years of his life in a type of limbo. Too scared to fail and too scared to try. read article

Peer Production: SHIT PEOPLE IN L.A. SAY Just Got Its Makers a Pilot Deal

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That’s right, kids. We wrote about Heidi Niedermeyer and Elena Crevello just a couple of posts ago. Check it and see.

Oh, and then see this: read article

Peer Production: BECOMING RICARDO Episode 2

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Our favorite web series about a Latina masquerading as a Latino is back with its second episode.

Fans – including us at TVWriter™ – have been waiting quite awhile for this one, and BECOMING RICARDO: I GOT THE PART finally made its debut last Monday. read article