Good morning! Welcome to another new week at TVWriter™. Here’s a look at the most popular blog posts and resource pages during the last 7 days.
They are, in order:
Tag: screenwriting
Patrice Robotnick’s ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY NEWS TV EDITION – 04/24/2020
Our robot reporter brings us the recent articles from other websites that she believes should have been posted on TVWriter™ first…and we agree.
First, the sound:
Diana Black: Happiness amid Sorrow, Gloom and Mass Hysteria
by Diana Black
Death, oppression and panic invariably lead to gloom and depression – economic and personal.
Over the last 100 years or so, we’ve had WWI (1914), Spanish Influenza (1918), The Great Depression (1929), WWII (1939), Round One of the Corona viruses – SARS – CoV (2003), the GFC (2008) then Round Two – MERS – CoV (2012), and now Round Three – COVID -19…
ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY NEWS AUDIO EDITION – 04/23/2020
by Bob Tinsley
Why should you as a visitor to TVWriter™ be interested in making audio fiction? Why should you be interested in making podcasts? Discoverability, that’s why.
The meaning of the word podcast is evolving to include any episodic, audio-only production whether nonfiction or fiction. Agents and major studios have started trawling through podcasts and their creators for new content and talent.
The Basics of Writing Audio Scripts/Radio Drama
TVWriter™ is right this very minute preparing a TVWriter™ University class on writing podcast fiction/audio fiction/radio-type drama. It will be taught by the esteemed Bob Tinsley, our go-to podcast fiction/audio fiction/radio-type drama/yada yada guy, and there will be more news about it as soon as all the details are worked out.
Until that glorious day arrives, however, here’s a very solid intro to, you know, the basics.
A comedy sketch presenting the basic concepts of writing for audio theater/ radio drama. By the award-winning audio dramatist, Roger Gregg of Crazy Dog Audio Theatre. In a special edition profiling his work,BBC Radio 4’s A World In Your Ear hailed Gregg as ‘one of a handful of truly great radio dramatists.’