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@Stareable – “I’ve got to have contracts for my web series?! Oh nooo!”

So You Want To Make a Web Series – Step 6
by Bri Castellini

Filmmaking, especially at the indie level, is a largely unglamorous process. There are glamorous aspects, of course: hearing your words read aloud and performed by talented actors, the thrill of a well-composed shot that raises the value of the entire project, and your first film festival acceptance email. But this step in the process, focusing on cast and crew contracts, is not one of those. It is, however, one of the most important and vital things you will hate to do.

Stareable recently published a great article from an actual lawyer about all the legal considerations you should keep in mind when writing up contracts. For this column, I, a non-lawyer whose mother really wanted her to be a lawyer, will give you a pragmatic perspective based in experience, not legal expertise.

The first thing you need to know is that, regardless of whether you are paying people, you need a contract signed (and backed up in two places) from every member of your team, even if they only work a single day. read article

Indie Video: ‘Alike’

8 minutes with enough emotion for a lifetime. This is why we need indie arts of all kinds:

No dialog, but remember, young noobies of all ages – This was written.

SYNOPSIS:
In a busy life, Copi is a father who tries to teach the right way to his son, Paste. But… what is the correct path?
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En una vida ajetreada, Copi es un padre que intenta enseñar el camino correcto a su hijo Paste. Pero… ¿Qué es lo correcto? read article

Writing Memes to Make You Laugh and Cry

They’re everywhere, right? All those encouraging words about what it is to be a writer? TVWriter™ frequent visitor Gloria E recently found three that struck her, and us, as presenting the entire range of the writing game –  hope and pragmatism and (to this TVWriter™ minion) a very disappointing type of despair:

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Oh, almost forgot. For this minion, the first meme is what I want to believe, the second is the crafty lesson I know I need, and the third…well, it expresses my greatest fear – that I’ll make it as a writer and discover that I’m still stuck in the most mundane of ordinary lives. read article

John Ostrander: No Trespassing

by John Ostrander

My Mary will sometimes pop into the office to chat a bit. If I’m just goofing off (a lot of my work day consists of goofing off), that’s fine but if I’m actually working she has to leave. She understands and doesn’t take offense; she can get the same way when she’s creating.

I don’t want anyone looking over my shoulder when I’m working, especially with the initial draft. I get self-conscious and everything freezes up and goes away. Oddly enough, Kim didn’t always understand that. It bothered her that there was a private place inside me to which she was not invited. She felt a couple should share everything and, for the most part, I agree – except when I’m writing.

I suppose that, with most couples that’s also true to some degree. Perhaps it’s even desirable that the person with whom you’ve spent a good long time can still surprise you, hopefully in positive ways. I once wrote a Wasteland story in which the husband challenges his wife when she claims she knows him completely. He suggests that he could, in fact, be the serial killer they’ve heard about. The claim that he could be eats away at his wife and, by the end of the story, she’s ready to leave him because she realized that the doubt she is feeling indicates she doesn’t really know her husband at all. read article

The WGA 2017 Contract Negotiations Need YOU

Especially if you’re a member. (And even if  you aren’t, because we here at TVWriter™ are absolutely certain you will want to be…especially if your intention is to earn your living by writing TV and films.

Anyway, here’s the latest:

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