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!
Confession #1: Sometimes (ok, a lot of the time) I wake up in the morning and feel like a failure. Why? Duh. Cause my career isn’t where I feel it should be. And, partly, cause I had a Quick! Easy! Fast! kinda-sorta success when I started out. And since then? Well, let’s just say I’m trying to catch up. This is not about depression, btw. I’m not depressed. In fact, I’m a happy person and actually pretty optimistic about how things will turn out .