Here’s something dear to our hearts. A web series about a TV series, set in the future.
The we site for the show is, well, to call it “minimalist” would probably be maximizing it.
Category: Peer Production
Peer Production: TRIP
Whoa, there are still some creatives out there who know how to blow people’s minds. Who’d a thunk?
vjsuave is ygor marotta and ceci soloaga.
Pitchfests – Yea or Nay?
As everybody who comes to TVWriter™ knows, we’re heavily into peer produced videos. One of our favorite peer producers is the man of mystery who calls himself The Bitter Script Reader. Cuz not only is ole BSR entertaining, his videos are also informative as hell. For example:
EDITOR’S NOTE: For the record, we’re anti-pitchfest. LB has turned down dozens of appearances at them, dating from way back when. If you want practice pitching, talk to your mirror. It’s considerably cheaper and the result will be the same as what you’d get 999 times out of a 1000 from a pitchfest: no sale.
Peer Production: THE WOMEN OF LA
Wimmens in LA! Woo!
In an earlier post today we talked about Jamie Abrams and DJ Lubel, who parlayed their viral video, THE WOMEN OF LA, into a major gig.
But as we were writing that, we realized that out-of-tunes that we are we’d never seen the damn video, let alone showed it here on TVWriter™.
Leesa Dean: Adventures of a Web Series Newbie
I’m a Loser, Baby, So Why Don’t You Kill Me?
by Leesa Dean
Ok. A lot to write about so I’m holding off writing about Rollo till next week cause this is more important. I got a fairly big response to last week’s post about developing a thick skin. A few people actually wrote in saying how they were scared to move forward with projects for a lot of the reasons I addressed.
Coincidentally, a few days ago TVWriter, a great site that has TONS of resources/articles/competitions for people interested in writing for TV (and yes, they’ve been a huge supporter of Chilltown), had a link to an article in Inc. magazine that addressed another aspect of it: the very real fear of failure, especially when you’re starting out and things are rough and you are, in fact, failing. One of the things that really hit home for me was identifying so much with your work, any rejection or failure is a rejection of you personally.
I had to get over that. Quickly. I’ve been extremely fortunate to have had some minor success (so far) as a creative. But I’ve had WAY more rejection. Everybody goes through it. It’s tough to take. And it’s way worse when you look at rejection as a personal indictment. That all you are is your work and if your work is rejected, you’re nothing. With all the rejection you go through as a creative person, believe me, taking things that personally is a one way ticket to Bellevue where the only plus is you’ll be too depressed to complain about the lousy hospital food.