A short French video with an interesting twist. Made by a team that knows how to manipulate the viewer’s emotions. So well done!
Leo Robot Hi- Tech company , wanders alone in Paris after the mysterious disappearance of all living species. He spends his days trying to entertain but to no avail. Until the day he meets a new living being …
Film made by students:
Are you a total newbie? Somebody with that burning need or desire to write who hasn’t a clue about how to get started? Great, that means you won’t be any competition for us TVWriter™ minions. Not to worry, this article’s got all the info you need to get started:
by Rita KarnoppPeople often talk about the all-important first draft. After writing the past hundred or so years (a bit of an exaggeration there) I realized early on several important facts about writing.
- Set a daily writing routine.
- Set goals.
- Period.
Daily writing routine – Let’s give this some thought. We are by nature creatures of habit. We generally get up around the same time every day (most times it’s because we have a JOB) and we get home around the same time. We also eat and go to sleep about the same time every day. So why not start and stop writing around the same time – unless you’re in a ‘writer’s surge’ and nothing – but nothing should stop or interfere with that wonderful experience.
Writers, at least fiction writers, pretty much live in a world of make-believe. We live in worlds of our own creation and in that living attempt to make those worlds real to everyone else; readers, listeners, watchers.
But it’s not as simple as sitting around spinning tales. Don’t we wish. There’s a whole lot that goes into writing a story and one aspect of that is research. No you can’t skip it.
Getting facts straight brings believability. If your setting is in the 1920’s Chicago you better know what you’re talking about to get the mood set and not flush readers and watchers right out of their ‘suspension of disbelief’ mode. Yes that goes for Sci Fi and Fantasy as well – get some facts in there that will make your ‘way out of our experience’ world more real. If you trim unreality with reality you bring belief and immersion.
…And it’s by Alisa Stern, the very talented creator of The Doctor Puppet, so it’s not only a great primer, it’s entertaining as, well, hell:
As we all know, since 2010 two shows (CBS’ Elementary, and the BBC’s Sherlock, which has also been picked up by PBS Masterpiece) have reimagined Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective Sherlock Holmes within a modern setting. As a writer trying to modernize a Victorian piece myself, I have been wondering why, exactly, one of these modernizations has set the world on fire… while the other is just on?
It all starts with the fact that the BBC’s version came first. In 2012, when CBS (as has been reported here and here) approached creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss about remaking Sherlock in America, Moffat & Gatiss politely declined. Smartly, CBS chose not to embroil themselves in a legal battle by ripping off Sherlock whole-hog… and instead did everything they could to make their take on a “modern Sherlock Holmes” really, really different from Sherlock.
I get it, I do. CBS wanted to move forward; Sherlock Holmes was sexy, all of a sudden. Who wouldn’t want to capitalize on that? But, as all Moffat and Gatiss really did was move the characters and stories they loved into our century, creator Robert Doherty would have to change more than just the ol’ anno domini. (By the way, his show Medium? Genius. So, I know he’s likely not the problem…)