A couple of weeks ago I posted a newspaper story about a couple of people I don’t know who live in Port Townsend, WA because I wanted those who come to this site to understand a bit more about a town I consider one of the World’s Top 3.
Here’s another story about how things are done here, in case you want another thing to feel kinda good about during this not-so-good time.
Why should you as a visitor to TVWriter™ be interested in making audio fiction? Why should you be interested in making podcasts? Discoverability, that’s why.
The meaning of the word podcast is evolving to include any episodic, audio-only production whether nonfiction or fiction. Agents and major studios have started trawling through podcasts and their creators for new content and talent.
Actually, this is the future everybody has feared, whether we’re talking showbiz or not. Time now to escape our personal life-or-death situations and turn our attention to the film biz. Who knows? It might even lighten our load.
The movie industry was already on a precipice. Did the pandemic just give it a push?
With theaters shuttered all over the world and hundreds of millions of people ordered to stay at home, it’s unclear when the movie industry can resume business as normal, or even whether that “normal” will look anything like Hollywood wants it to. Pivotal pieces of the film calendar — including the summer-blockbuster season and the year-end awards gantlet — have been thrown into disarray, and in their absence the gulf between streaming media and the theatrical experience may only widen further.
NOTE FROM LB: Found this on Facebook and immediately fell in love with the Swarthmore College Theater Department. Wonder if they have any faculty openings….
THAT WHICH WILL REMAIN UNSEEN
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE DEPARTMENT OF THEATER PRESENTS:
SOPHOCLES
THE WOMEN OF TRACHIS
Directed by Michal Zadara
LB’S NOTE: Back in the mid-1990s, Jeri Taylor, the show runner of Star Trek: Voyager, asked me to write an episode of the show.
I’d just returned to L.A. after having spent a couple of years living on the Santa Clara Pueblo just north of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and filled with love and respect for the Indian People (which is what my friends in Santa Clara, as well as those on the Navajo, Hopi, and Lakota reservations where I’d also spent so much time called themselves instead of Native Americans) I agreed, provided I could write about the character, Chakotay, in a script that would portray Indian People the way I knew them.