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 […]
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Friend of the blog Sébastien writes:
I watched “The Sopranos” pilot five times and it’s driving me crazy : I can’t distinguish the act breaks!
Well, I don’t know. Do you? I haven’t watched that episode in a very long time and don’t have it on hand to break down right this second, so I thought I’d […]
Over the holidays I spent quite a bit of time watching videos from MIT’s Futures of Entertainment conference. I was particularly taken by the case study of Purefold, a project which seems to defy description.
It’s a transmedia project in its early stages that has no elevator pitch and is the antithesis of high concept. […]
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
A couple of days ago here at CrossoverMontreal 0′9, Richard Adams shared a collection of sites with the group. He emphasized the simplicity of each them; they are each built on a very clear and simple concept. That was one of Richard’s big messages: avoid unnecessary complexity.
These are the sites Richard shared:
The […]
When we first see the milk sloshing into the pan on the stove and Don all bleary-eyed, we think the baby has been born. But no, Don is caring for his other baby, Betty.
The scene he sees as he stands there is in his imagination. It isn’t a flashback or a memory. This is a […]
Are you excited? Only 9 days left to the launch of season 3 and judging by the number of writers who’ve Mad Men-ized their profile pictures on Facebook and Twitter I’m guessing lots of people are looking forward to August 9. And so in anticipation, I decided to do a little comparison between the pilot […]
The Fourth Independent Television Festival takes play in LA July 31 to August 6. It is billed as the only festival for independently produced pilots in LA:
ITVFest prides itself on being for and about the pilotmakers.
I was lucky enough to get a pre-screening of one of the entries, an energetic comedy with a great little […]
Making pilots is a pretty new craft in Canada. How long have we been making pilots? Three years, maybe. Four? Between the handful each made by CBC, CTV and Global we still don’t have a very big body of work. And the chances to see these pilots are few and far between.
A very few of […]
In November, AMC will air a “reimagined” miniseries called The Prisoner. It is based on the 60s Brit series which starred Patrick MacGoohan and was apparentally created by him as well.
The Premise : A man, known as “Six,” finds himself inexplicably trapped in “The Village” with no memory of how he arrived. As he […]
NEW WEB SERIES TEACHES KIDS COMPUTER SAVVY THEY DON’T LEARN IN SCHOOL
Thirteen-year-old web wizard, Hailey, makes technology cool
TORONTO, March 25, 2009 — Story2.OH and giraffesoft introduce Hailey Hacks, a series of web videos starring Toronto grade 6 student, Marlee Maslove. Hailey (Maslove) is the Hermione Grainger of web wizardry showing 8-13 year olds all kinds […]
