THE NAKED MAN COMEDY SERIES has been around for 4 years now, and it’s been a secret pleasure of this TVWriter™ minion all that time. I mean, what’s not to like? C’mon – it’s a naked man!
Here’s Episode 2:
Category: Web Series
Leesa Dean: Sometimes Entering the Fast Lane Means Slowing Down
Adventures in Digital Series Land #116
by Leesa Dean
Things are getting intense. In a good way! My radio segment *just* went live on AM radio to a pretty big audience! The show, Lele’s Week in Review, is a 90 second parody of entertainment news done by my character Lele. I write, produce and voice it. It’s A LOT of fun. And a lot to do. I bang out/record a new episode every single week.
Two radio stations have it: Rhythm 105.9 in Yuma, CA and now WWRN 1620 AM Urban Classics (as part of the Just Wake Up Morning Show every Friday at noon EST) which is in Lehigh, PA. They’re both syndicated out to smaller stations. Total listeners so far: about 250,000. Not too shabby.
WWRN started as a digital channel, I met them when they interviewed me aboutChilltown, I had just started the segment with Rhythm 105.9 and they were interested. WWRN kept growing and growing and now, it’s finally made them jump to AM. Cool factoid: WWRN is co-owned by former 1990’s phenom Damion “Crazy Legs” Hall from the R&B group Guy. I feel it’s a real opportunity for me to increase brand awareness.
10 Things I Learned Producing a Web Series
The following ultra informative article about producing, prepping, and just plain being in showbiz is cleverly disguised as hype for its writer’s web series, CONFESSIONS OF…. Don’t be fooled: This is good stuff.
And, so, actually, is CONFESSIONS OF A BARTENDER. Whadaya know?
by Cheryl Texiera
Anyone who has ever produced anything knows the title ‘producer’ can also mean: writer, director, actor, wardrobe, casting director, prop master – you get the picture. Amongst all those titles, I got the lucky experience of adding ‘editor’ to my list.
Leesa Dean: Digital is Where It’s At!
Adventures in Digital Series Land #115
by Leesa Dean
An intense couple of weeks. Am in the final stretch of post for my series and hoping I’ll be done in a few months. This part is a bear. Each episode has many pods that are strung together to make a narrative–approximately 35 per episode. To say it’s been challenging to manipulate them all is an understatement. Plus, I’m reanimating certain bits just to make them tighter and brighter.
Meanwhile, also, about a month or so away from completing a pilot script. There’s a lot going on in this particular show–and the character development is raking me over the coals because I want them to be idiosyncratic and compelling. Plus, I have limited time to write because of production so my days been nuts so it’s been a challenge.
But a few things happened recently that further legitimatized the digital series realm and it’s the wind that keeping this operation afloat!
CARGO 3120: How in the World(s) Did We Get Here?
The Making of a SciFi Franchise #24
by Aaron Walker, Sr.
Whenever I’m asked “How did this book come about?” my number one response is: “By the grace of God”, a simple fact for which I make no apologies. To say that this book was released amid great personal and professional setbacks and frustrations, would be a huge understatement. And like other writers no doubt experienced at one time or another during their careers, I seriously flirted with the idea of quitting, mainly because I had too much going on in my life. Everything from the challenges that come along with family life, to the constant delays of the project (a fact that we blogged about numerous times), all played a part in my feeling that it was perhaps time to hang it up.
But I am a firm believer that every good gift and every perfect gift is from above. And I certainly didn’t believe we were blessed with the God given ability to create, to just sit on it and do nothing. So we pressed forward anyway. And I am glad we did. To finally see a tangible form of something on which you have toiled for years, makes all of the pain and disappointments vanish in an instant. Regardless of where this goes in the future, I am glad to have gone through this process, and I couldn’t be more proud of the work we produced.
I say “we”, because I cannot take all of the credit for myself. While I may have been the one that penned the actual book and screenplay upon which this particular book is based, Cargo 3120 was not just my idea, but also the ideas of the incredibly talented co-creators: Daymond C. Roman and Lloyd Walker Jr. I also must acknowledge the gifted writer/poetess: Brenda Mitchell-Walker (my mother and editor), and our Artist: Lemelle Wherry, who was responsible for the cover art, as well as all of the concept art on our website (www.cargo3120.com) And while we have conquered one book, believe me, there is a lot more to come.