In our data-conscious society, we do hella evaluation. Maybe it’s time for some inspiration instead?
(Hey, we kept a straight face through those two sentences. Awesome, huh? Oh, wait…)
by Scott Barry Kaufman, Pd.D.We live in a culture saturated with evaluation.
Chapter 42 – That Stonehenge MomentIntense week! In a good way. Been on a roll writing Season Two of the Lele Show. Tweaking, making changes and I hope people like it. Not putting deadlines in the mix–I have too much on my plate. But, hopefully, will be done writing all the episodes in about a month or month and a half (there are 36 new eps and an ADDITIONAL 36 pieces of supplemental stuff that have to be written/shaped.)
Also working on a two brand new shows I’m really excited about. And one is live action. They’re still in the development stages so it’s quite a juggling act: finding the time each day to work on The Lele Show, each of the two new shows, production on the TOP SECRET PROJECT and the few freelance gigs I have (just got a call for a very very cool one but it’s too soon to talk fully about it.)
Speaking of production on the TOP SECRET PROJECT: gearing up for two shoots. And one is this Sunday. So busy tweaking the script, speaking with my producing partner and finalizing tech stuff and speaking with the guy who’s doing Camera 2.
Either it’s just another way to play the censorship game…or it’s an awesome new paradigm:
Streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime owe a good deal of their success to parents of young children, who love that they can dial up one of their kids’ favorite shows or movies instantly and without commercials. The folks at Viacom and Verizon are hoping to replicate some of that experience with a new customizable cable TV channel aimed at youngsters.
Rather than putting viewers at the mercy of TV programmers or forcing parents to find desired content online or via on-demand TV, “My Nick Jr.” will take a different approach by giving viewers a selection of seven different themes — like “get creative,” “word play,” or “supersonic science” — that will then determine the initial programming. Viewers can then vote yay or nay (via smile and frown icons) for individual shows. This feedback will then help customize the experience further.
Hulu has spared, well, it’s spared a great deal of expense, as a matter of fact, in bringing its new series, STATE OF SYN to the interweb/our TVs. But the show isn’t your garden variety cheapo. It’s a kind of fumetti, a live-action comic strip with real actors, including FIREFLY’s Jewel Staite supplying the voices over their limited animation photo-images.
STATE OF SYN debuted on Hulu.Com last Saturday, with all its episodes in place, ready to stream. And while TVWriter™ wasn’t all that thrilled with the sound and the acting – very Saturday morning animation, kids, sorry – we love the potential, especially as it applies to indie film and video makers/peer producers.
Actually, in the words of Beloved Leader LB: “‘No longer a necessity?’ Goddamn it, it never was!”
Here’s the BigMedia perspective, however, from FX and Fox, courtesy of Indiewire:
While the film industry continues to see seismic shifts in the way movies are made, released and monetized, the television industry is experiencing its own major changes. Viewers have been drifting away from live TV in favor of recording things on their DVRs and zipping through the commercials, or cutting the cord entirely and consuming series online.
