Matt Smith’s car, actually, and it’s for charity. Definitely worth checking out if you’re a DOCTOR WHO fan (and these days who dares say they aren’t?):
Extra! The 11th Doctor’s Car is Being Auctioned on eBay
Tag: Larry Brody
LB: What Does a TV Animation Director Do?
Glad You Asked Department 7/12/13
Back in the late ’90s I did a little work in animation, creating projects like Fox’s THE SILVER SURFER, which I also ran – as much as a writer can run what is probably the only TV genre where writer-producers don’t get to call all the shots because the animator-directors are the official Big Cheeses – and supervising the writing on SURFER, SPIDER-MAN UNLIMITED, DIABOLIK (a French series for all practical purposes although everyone wanted it to be more), and HBO’s SPAWN (a terrific series bujt the less said about it as an experience in my life the better).
As a result of that work (which you can get a quick overview of here), I’m often asked a lot of questions about the television animation process. One of the days, time permitting, I’ll write a nice long article on the subject. But until then I’m happy to use this space to answer the following question from Delia, who wants to writes:
I’ve been a secret fan of Saturday Morning animation for years and have always been amazed at the variation in quality. I’ve seen shows that obviously were intended for 8 year olds, like POKEMON, and shows that scaled upward in age past pre-teens and teens to the viewing group I’d call Young Adults, which clearly was the demo you aimed THE SILVER SURFER at.
We Have Seen the Future – and It’s “Social TV”
…For everyone, including TV writers. We know cuz it says so right here:
Social TV – Does it Draw New Viewers? New Research Sheds Important Light
by Ed Keller
In a recent blog post I discussed new, in depth research for the CRE (Council for Research Excellence) on the topic of social media and television. The headline finding from that piece was that consumer interaction with social media in relation to television viewing is relatively modest compared to other forms of communication and lags behind other online media, TV promotions and, especially, offline communication. Only 12% of respondents use social media one or more times per day when it comes to primetime TV – posting, reading posts, or hearing about posts; and only 1.5% of people say they are influenced to watch a particular prime time show because of social media.
A second phase of analysis from that research was recently released, and reveals another important insight for TV marketers: Social media plays a significantly different role depending on whether people are repeat viewers of a program (i.e., those who watch regularly or occasionally) vs. those who watch infrequently (including non-viewers).
Technobabble is Bad Drama
We’re really digging The Bitter Script Reader’s YouTube videos. They’re the perfect teaching tools for the SESAME STREET generation.
Here’s the Bitter Script Reader latest writing wisdom digested into three minutes, which is only about a minute and a half longer than our ADHD-addled brain can concentrate. But although we may be having a little trouble grasping all of BSR’s advice, we’re certain you won’t:
Another Writing Meme
Found on Tumblr by somebody named Sydnee:
So how come when we use LibreOffice we only get 250 words to a page double-spaced?