I’m doing most of my blogging these days over on the Ruby Skye P.I. temporary site where I have gone so far as to start a video blog. That is a bit of a horrifying experience. First, you have to stare at your own image on your computer screen while you’re recording the blog and […]
Although I plan to blog a great deal about Ruby Skye and share the process with you, I will not be providing a lot of detail about story. I won’t be posting outlines or scripts. We want that to be a surprise. Hopefully though, the process will be of interest.
On Saturday the 26th, Julie Cohn […]
Here are the Independent Production Fund Web Drama Series Pre-Selection results. 166 applied, 26 have been asked to submit complete production applications by May 1, 2010.
These are the 26 projects:
11 Règles
Whimz Studio
Producer: Steve Kerr
Writer: André Gulluni
Director: Yan Lanouette-Turgeon
The Agent C
Ravenhead Productions
Steve Cochrane, Phyllis Ellis, Adriana Maggs
Beer Goggles
Decode Entertainment Inc.
Greydon Laing, Beth Stevenson
The Brothers McElroy
Zeros […]
Just for Laughs Comedy Conference announced a pitch competition for comedy web series. I’ve read the guidelines which are sort of on the confusing side. Even the title of the thing is confusing:
“PITCH ‘TIL YOUR SIDES SPLIT” JUST FOR LAUGHS COMEDY CONFERENCE PITCH PROGRAM and the COMEDY BOOTCAMP FOR FILM
This is how […]
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Andra Sheffer’s office has walls in two shades of blue and looks west out at College where the blue roof of the police headquarters matches her decor nicely. I was visiting to find out more about the Independent Production Fund and what I could put into my application that would help it stand out from […]
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Everything’s coming up digital, how about you?
It’s in the air. The producer’s association just devoted their conference to the “new media”. The Independent Production Fund is financing linear web video. The Canada Media Fund will be calling for a second platform for all the television series it finances and offering a second “experimental” stream for […]
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Tomorrow I head to Ottawa to take part in the Canadian Film and Television Producers Association’s Prime Time Conference. I will be part of the panel scheduled for Friday morning 11am – 12:15 pm in the Confederation III room on the Future of Storytelling.
Now I have to think of something to say on the […]
Our tale is about to begin, but there’s still time for me to introduce you to our players. Meet Barbara (@barbology) and Laurence (@about2bhitched), a lovely couple. If you make friends with them, perhaps they’ll invite you to there nuptials. Yes, they’re engaged and the wedding is this Friday at 6 p.m.
Standing up with […]
What was that just moments ago on Twitter? Did one of the characters in Crushing It just respond to an @?
@youngneal’s feed has has a little activity over the last couple of days. Tonight, Ink Canada tweeted at him:
It wasn’t long before Neal responded.
If you want to follow Crushing It, then follow the Crushing It […]
Thursday, January 28, 2010
We shot the posts for Barbara’s video log this evening. And the first is already up. The amazing fluidity of working in the digital space.
Last Sunday, at the Crushing It story meeting, we realized how hard it was proving to get to Barbara’s story — Barbara being the character I’m writing and who is known […]
