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Leesa Dean: Digital is Where It’s At!
Adventures in Digital Series Land #115
by Leesa Dean
An intense couple of weeks. Am in the final stretch of post for my series and hoping I’ll be done in a few months. This part is a bear. Each episode has many pods that are strung together to make a narrative–approximately 35 per episode. To say it’s been challenging to manipulate them all is an understatement. Plus, I’m reanimating certain bits just to make them tighter and brighter.
Meanwhile, also, about a month or so away from completing a pilot script. There’s a lot going on in this particular show–and the character development is raking me over the coals because I want them to be idiosyncratic and compelling. Plus, I have limited time to write because of production so my days been nuts so it’s been a challenge.
But a few things happened recently that further legitimatized the digital series realm and it’s the wind that keeping this operation afloat!
Meanwhile, on the Copyright War Battle Front
Did you know that the best possible way to increase your creative productivity is to get a copyright lawyer? Yeah, we didn’t either. But lookee here, fellow ignoramii:
Are lawyers the driving force behind artistic freedom?
by Zach Graves
Are lawyers the driving force behind artistic freedom? Astonishingly, that’s the impression you get when you read the Copyright Alliance’s account of a recent panel on music copyright hosted at George Mason University. To be clear, they note the importance of creators, in the sense that:
Intellectual property drives economic and artistic freedom, thereby supporting a professional class of musicians and innovations that continue to fuel the creation of music.
Dennis O’Neil: Our Superhero Posses
by Dennis O’Neil
Time was when superheroes operated pretty much alone, or with a sidekick, who could be anyone from the original Green Lantern’s cab driving Doiby Dickles to Batman’s intrepid though preadolescent Robin. Oh, there were other continuing characters in your basic superhero saga – think Jimmy Olsen and Commissioner Gordon – but when it came to doing the daring deeds the folk in the costumes usually flew solo.
Then things evolved and –
Almost certainly, a lot more people will see Supergirl on television this week than ever read one of the Maid of Might’s comic books. She’s plenty super – give her that – and as bonuses, attractive and charmiing, but she doesn’t fight evil by herself. No, she’s allied with a brainy group of colleagues who hang their doctorates in a secret lab. And if we scan the videoscape, we see that Supergirl has peers. The other two television title characters most like their comic book inspirations, Arrow and the Flash, also have lab-dwelling cohorts who can always be depended on to have the information the good guy/girl needs.
Indie Video: WELCOME TO KICKSTARTER
Regular TVWriter™ visitors know how highly we value Kickstarter and other crowdfunding sites. (Honest, we do!) But in the interest of fairness here’s another point of view, which we would’ve Kickstarted in a minute given the chance:
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