Posts in category Writing

Today for #WebSeriesWednesday I watched ‘Devine Intervention’ – a show created by a group with no real production experience or budget but a lot of desire to make something worth watching. This should help people just beginning to make their own web series to avoid a lot of very common pitfalls.

This blog originally appeared over on flixlist.com, a site aggregating some of the best in freely available video online. Here I take a look at …

Deep beneath this rugged, snobby exterior lives a gentile, emotional, nuggety core ripe with feelings. Feelings and other icky things like love, and empathy – …

Two weeks ago the Kony 2012 documentary shattered viral records despite being a half hour long. Short form is the environment viral videos and web series have grown up in, but before they can really mature they might first need to leave the nest.

Have you noticed that a lot of web series are simply feature films cut in ten pieces, or tv shows without a 42 minute running time? Bxx, created by Daniel Knauf of HBO’s Carnivale, is doing something completely different.

When you think of history’s most successful products and services the vast majority are centered around creating habits in their users – think television, facebook, …

Viewers may end up watching your web series on the same screen they use to watch their tv, or a screen that is similar to …

This is the third article in a series seeking to look at examples of great writing in modern media with the hope of learning a …

Start posing questions to your audience and stop answering them. Today we look at the power of the unseen, and the danger of letting your audience see too much.

I have recently talked a lot about great writing in modern media, using Mad Men and Battlestar Galactica as examples. Today I want to look …