Inside the L.A. Macabre Kickstarter Campaign
Staff writer Kacy Tiller gives a personal look inside her work crowdfunding with LA Macabre, half way towards a $60,000 goal.
Staff writer Kacy Tiller gives a personal look inside her work crowdfunding with LA Macabre, half way towards a $60,000 goal.
“I didn’t come out here to write pilots. I came out here to produce shows, and to write shows, and the only way we could do that was if we did it ourselves, basically.”
Described by its co-producers and co-stars Rick Copp, Joe Dietl and Ben Zook as “THE GOLDEN GIRLS meets MURDER, SHE WROTE, but with big, hairy gay men,” Where The Bears Are is seeking funding for it’s fourth and final season on Kickstarter.
Valuable insights on web production from creators and distributors alike, this week in New Orleans.
“Can I make new characters that aren’t just Superior Man’, ‘Night Vigilante’ and ‘Wondrous Amazon’?”
Recently acquired for distribution by Participant Media and by the new cable network Pivot. The first season’s 15 webisodes were combined into 5 half hour episodes for its TV debut.
“Marion gave me the script for Season Two, which I couldn’t help but notice had double the pages of Season One. People had asked for more, and by god, we were going to give it to them.”
Not taking place in any particular point in time, DELTA BLUE is heavily rooted in the deep South, the early beginnings of blues music and the often turbulent heritage it grew out of. In fact, DELTA BLUE is based heavily in “bluespunk”, a storytelling genre that combines sci-fi with tales of the dark, dangerous world of the depression-era South.
“We’ve crowd funded for each episode … We raised somewhere in the neighborhood of $9,000 for episode eight, $15,000 for episode six, and $8,000 for episode five, so it just kind of varies.” Obviously they’re doing something right.
Season 2 of one of our favorite shows has returned; bigger, better and twice as mature!