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Leesa Dean: Adventures of a Web Series Newbie
Chapter 79 – YouTube News! I’m Excited!
by Leesa Dean
Wow. So YouTube finally is close to opening their brand new New York studios and I am officially excited.
The production facilities are supposed to be much bigger/better than the previous ones. Before, there were two small green screen studios and, truthfully, I took a few classes in those studios and they were big enough for my purposes. In fact, I thought they were great. I’m hearing the stages in the new place will be bigger, including three enclosed sound stages (!!) and state-of-the-art post facilities. Just. Wow.
Writing the Genre Show Script
The devil’s in the details when you’re trying to make it as a writer. And so’s the success. Which is why these details are here for you:
by Craig Engler
In the last installment of How to Make a Genre Show I took you up to the point in the show-creation process where you had detailed outlines (approved by the network!) for the episodes of your series. Now it’s time to take that outline and turn it into a script — which I did, when I wrote episode six of Z Nation, which airs tomorrow night.
Cargo 3120: The Making of a Sci-Fi Franchise
Entry 2 – From Ambition to Film School… to the U.S. Army?
by Daymond C. Roman
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The Story So Far starts HERE)
So, we finally realized that ambition can only go so far; we needed a film school. And after researching all the schools that were accessible to us we decided to go to The Academy of the Arts in San Francisco. I was sold when they said they had everything at their facility to make Jurassic Park! Only, there was no way that me or Aaron could afford it. And neither of us qualified for financial aid, each of our families made a little more than what would qualify. Again, like our last blog states, we just missed the cut.
But like I said, we really aspired to create our stories and had serious ambitions about making our dreams come true, which is why we made the decision to join the U.S. Army. They had a college fund that would more than pay for our tuition.
Another Reason Why Every Good TV Idea Turns to S**t
How many times as LB told his students, “No matter what your job title, you’re a salesman?” Thousands of times, that’s how many. Still, many talented and hard working writers refuse to accept that basic tenet. Okay, salesperson deniers, whaddaya say about this:
AMC Network Narrows Field Of Drama Pilot Contenders With Producer Meetings
by Nellie Andreeva
With a renewed focus on original dramas as AMC just exited the unscripted space, the network is ramping up development. It had been an AMC tradition to hold annual script showcases, called by the network producer meetings, where the writers/producers of scripts that had been identified by network brass as top pilot contenders, lay out their vision for the shows beyond the pilot. Those producer meetings, which continue to be referred to as “bakeoff” in agency jargon, have traditionally been taking place in the spring, followed by pilot pickups. Sometimes, there has been a second round of producer meetings in the fall, which is what happened this year.