Not something you’ll be seeing on TV. Which is a damn shame. But once again the genius of the individual “fan” content creator comes flying across our computer screens:
Tag: Spec Scriptacular Contest
Cargo 3120: The Making of a Sci-Fi Franchise
Entry 3 – Picking up as Adults where we left off as Kids
by Aaron Walker Sr.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The Story So Far starts HERE)
Eight years after Daymond and I went into the Army, I wanted to resurrect our idea to write a science fiction movie, yet I never forced myself to sit down and do the work. So I decided to go back to school for Game software Development. During one of my courses we were tasked with developing a Game Design Document (GDD). The assignment called for a fully developed storyline for the game. I figured this would be the perfect opportunity to finish what we started so many years earlier. So I chose our previously untitled SciFy story to be the subject of a roleplaying game which I called: Cargo.
The problem that I immediately faced was that we never got very far with the story when we were teenagers. All we really had was a couple of character names and partial back stories for them. Needless to say, I had my work cut out for me. During the course I fleshed out a lot of the details for both the universe of Cargo and its major players. But despite the momentum and positive instructor feedback, I never worked on the actual script until three years after I graduated.
Is Leslye Headland the Next Big TV Writer?
We at TVWriter™ honestly aren’t familiar with her work, so we need your feedback. Has this article nailed it, or are we falling for more of Huffpo’s manipulative fluff?
Let us know what you think. For reals.
by Lily Karlin
Television has never been an amazing source of three-dimensional female characters. For decades, the medium has relied on one-note stereotypes: the good girl, the temptress, the rebel, the know-it-all. But in the past few years, a new crop of shows — “The Good Wife,” “Orange Is the New Black,” “Transparent” — has emerged, showing that realistic women actually blur these lines.
Leesa Dean: Adventures of a Web Series Newbie
Chapter 80 Disruption
by Leesa Dean
The conception of disruption with regards to the internet is relatively new. What it means is, something, let’s say broadcast television exists and something else, let’s say, streaming digital media, comes in and replaces it as a preferred mode of viewing.
There’s been a lot of talk about disruption lately, mainly because of the huge game-changing news that both HBO and CBS will have independent streaming models in 2015. Meaning, if you’re a huge Game of Thrones fanatic and subscribe to HBO in a cable tv package from a provider, you no longer will need the cable tv package. It’s a cord-cutters delight.
Michael Wolff has a different take on it. Wolff is a long-time writer about tech and media and even had one of the first start-ups years ago and wrote about it in a pretty juicy book. Wolff says that versus the internet disrupting TV, TV is really disrupting the internet.
Diana Vaccarelli Sees CHEF
by Diana Vaccarelli
I’m a foodie and love to eat. In spite of that, or maybe because, I had no expectations when I sat down to watch the film CHEF, written and directed by IRON MAN’s Jon Favreau.
Jon Favreau not only wrote and directed this film but also stars as Carl Casper, a highly regarded chef at a prestigious L.A. Restaurant, who quits his job to escape his controlling employer,. Finding himself in Miami, Carl teams up with his ex-wife, an old friend, and his son to open a food truck. As the truck takes to the road, Carl finds himself back at his roots.
As much as this film is about food it is more about family, with food the link between family members. Carl and the others have long been estranged, and toiling on the truck not only returns Carl to his roots, reminding him of why he loved being a chef in the first place, it also brings father and son back together.