ShortScope Review is a YouTube Channel that reviews short films and videos. Host Daymond Roman is a longtime TVWriter™ friend, and he’s affable, intelligent, and knows his stuff.
Daymond isn’t reviewing TV shows or web series yet, but we’re working on him to do so. Meanwhile, here are a couple of samples of the D-Man and Shortscope in action:
Indie web series star, writer, director, producer, and and all around super-creator Travis Richie does it again:
BLIP is being shuttered on August 15th. I knew it was gonna happen ultimately, but still, am sad to see it go.BLIP was one of the early platforms that showed and monetized web series.Chilltown, my series, was on there and I received nearly 50,000 views on just one episode when they featured it on their front page for just one day. And that amounted to cash. Which was great. It wasn’t a huge amount, but way more than YouTube’s payout.
The people there also were actively very supportive of the series on their platform. They promoted my show on Google + and Twitter. Which was really helpful and cool.
When Maker Studios purchased it in 2013, right in the middle of Chilltown’s run it didn’t affect things for me but I knew something was going to shift. At the time, they publicly stated (and sent letters to creators on BLIP) that they’d be dropping a lot of web series. I wasn’t dropped but a about seven months later, Disney bought Maker for $500 million and I was certain I’d be dropped. Mostly cause I thought the cursing in my series just didn’t fit the Disney brand. Surprisingly, I wasn’t. And even though I stopped adding content, I continued to receive some views.
Adventures in Digital Series Land – Chapter 106I am a tennis fanatic. Love to watch matches, love to play. Did I mention I kinda suck at it? Ok, maybe not suck, but…I’m inexperienced. Been playing for about five or six years (just working on my strokes) but only started playing games last year. And found out the hard way that playing games is dramatically different than just hitting a ball around. Aside from strategy and learning different shots that are game-specific, there’s the pressure. And it is insane. You’re dealing with ego (mostly your own: OMG, am I gonna fail?), stage-fright (OMG, everyone’s gonna see me fail!!!) and fear of failure (OMG everyone just saw me fail!!!) But I really really really wanna get better and feel I have the potential to, ultimately, be a good player. So I’m sticking with it.
A week ago I found myself prepping for a pitch meeting. And the same fears I have with tennis were cropping up (yeah, the fear of failure thing). The worst thing you can do in a pitch meeting is have them see you sweat. I mean, who wants to buy something from someone who’s nervous about their project?
I’ve taken a ton of pitch meetings and normally don’t get nervous about them anymore because I’ve been told I’m “good in a room” but since I’ve been holed up a while writing/animating a bunch of new stuff, it somehow felt new. And I had a butterflies.
The best unofficial, unauthorized, totally fan-made “teaser” ever made. This one is for Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events as a series.
Guaranteed to make its creator, who goes by the monicker of Eleanora Poe, a star. (You heard it here, kids. And, yes, please do try this at home.)