Tag: People’s Pilot writing contest

Innovative Media Production for Fun and Profit

We may or may not be living in the future, but we sure as hell are closing in on Media Impossible. Or, as a certain Vulcan we all know and love might say, “Fascinating:”

by Mike Masnick

A few weeks ago, a couple of friends friends were tweeting about an incredible new YouTube video in which some people created a “real life first-person shooter” and hooked it up to Chatroulette, Skype and Omegle. Random people on the services were transported into this game, which they controlled with their voice. read article

John Ostrander: Going Out of My Head (Over You)

Elmer-Fuddby John Ostrander

I’m a child of pop culture.

Nowhere is that more obvious to me in the earworms that I get. Earworms are a song or piece of a song that gets stuck in your head and seems to be on an endless replay cycle. I don’t know about you but I get them a lot. A lot. I wish I could say they were songs that I like but often they’re songs I’m pretty “meh” about and sometimes even hate.

They’re almost always pop songs – nothing classical although I am a fan of classical music. Not of all classical music, but of some. The only opera I really like, for example, is Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten. The closest I get to classical earworms are the orchestral movie soundtracks – I like soundtracks quite a bit. For example, the Star Wars Theme is likely to pop up in rotation pretty often, but that’s okay by me. read article

If THE MUPPET MOVIE Got A Round Of Reality TV Network Notes

Jeez Jon strikes again! We can’t resist this stuff:

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by Jeez John

THE MUPPET MOVIE Network Rough Cut 2 Notes Pass read article

WGA, WEST ANNOUNCES 2016 CANDIDATES FOR BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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LB: The 1 Book Every New TV Writer Needs

More Troy Book Capture

by Larry Brody

Yes, it’s true. I’ve finally found the one book every TV writer needs in order to fully understand what the hell is going on in the television production trenches, and it isn’t even one of my own.

The book in question is Troy DeVolld’s And Another Thing…A Beginner’s Guide to the Television Notes Process. 

Because when you get right down to it, as a famous but still working TV showrunner told me half a zillion years ago, “They aren’t really paying us for our writing. They’re paying us for having to listen to their fucking notes.” And Troy’s book tells us how to understand and deal with those notes…and the notes-givers. read article