Writing a feature film is easy. All you need is one gimmicky logline, as cheap and single-serving-disposable as a coffee pod from the complimentary hotel room K-Cup spinner. Once you stumble upon one of these so-called “high concept” ideas, the script practically writes, sells and produces itself. It’s creative work for stupid babies, as all filmmakers will surely agree–totally unlike, in other words, the act of conceptualizing an entire episodic series, a demonstration of storytelling virtuosity so complex and adult it straddles the border between ancient Euclidean geometry and New Age witchcraft.
Okay, so maybe that’s a little extreme. But for aspiring series creators and showrunners, structuring a workable, potentially long-running television concept requires imagination and problem-solving on both the micro- and macro- levels–a mastery of tone, plot and characterization across variable interlocking units of temporal storytelling: scenes, dramatic acts, full episodes, multi-episode arcs and complete seasons.
Okay, so maybe that’s a little extreme. But for aspiring series creators and showrunners, structuring a workable, potentially long-running television concept requires imagination and problem-solving on both the micro- and macro- levels–a mastery of tone, plot and characterization across variable interlocking units of temporal storytelling: scenes, dramatic acts, full episodes, multi-episode arcs and complete seasons.
- 2/15/2024
- by Film Independent
- Film Independent News & More
Exclusive: Film Independent has named the eight writers selected for the seventh edition of its Episodic Lab, designed to provide individualized story and career development for writers with original pilots for television. The participants and projects are Desdemona Chiang (Zhizha! (紙紮!)), Giovanni Maldonado Chinea & Myles Hawthorne (The Machetero), Robert Cohen & Ioana Uricaru (Overcast), Catherine Durickas (Beige Is Not Dead), Azza Malik and Robert ToTeras (Jourdain).
Cohen and Uricaru have been set to receive this year’s $20,000 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant, awarded to projects with science or technology themes and characters, to support the development of their pilot Overcast through the Lab. Dear Azza,‘s Malik, meanwhile, will receive a $10,000 grant from the Mpac Hollywood Bureau, an organization working to elevate stories by and about Muslims in entertainment.
This year’s two-week, in-person Lab will help to further the careers of Fellows by introducing them to industry veterans — including experienced showrunners,...
Cohen and Uricaru have been set to receive this year’s $20,000 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant, awarded to projects with science or technology themes and characters, to support the development of their pilot Overcast through the Lab. Dear Azza,‘s Malik, meanwhile, will receive a $10,000 grant from the Mpac Hollywood Bureau, an organization working to elevate stories by and about Muslims in entertainment.
This year’s two-week, in-person Lab will help to further the careers of Fellows by introducing them to industry veterans — including experienced showrunners,...
- 2/15/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Project inspired by 1974 Boston busing riots.
Heading into AFM Cinema Management Group (Cmg) has announced that Mooncusser Filmworks has hired African American composer Robert ToTeras and brought on Captain Marvel composer Pinar Toprak as co-producer for its racially charged drama The Walk starring Justin Chatwin, Terrence Howard and Jeremy Piven.
Daniel Adams directs the project inspired by the 1974 Boston busing riots that ensued after an attempt to desegregate use of public school buses. The story, believed to be the first US fim about the unrest, centres on a Boston Irish police officer Bill Coughlin (Chatwin), who causes a backlash led...
Heading into AFM Cinema Management Group (Cmg) has announced that Mooncusser Filmworks has hired African American composer Robert ToTeras and brought on Captain Marvel composer Pinar Toprak as co-producer for its racially charged drama The Walk starring Justin Chatwin, Terrence Howard and Jeremy Piven.
Daniel Adams directs the project inspired by the 1974 Boston busing riots that ensued after an attempt to desegregate use of public school buses. The story, believed to be the first US fim about the unrest, centres on a Boston Irish police officer Bill Coughlin (Chatwin), who causes a backlash led...
- 10/15/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Bmi announced the winners of the performing rights organization’s annual Film, TV and Visual Media Awards on Monday, with an online unveiling of the recipients substituting for the ceremony that would have been taking place in Beverly Hills under non-quarantine conditions.
The most awards, five, went to Icelandic composer Atli Örvarsson, who won for his contributions to “Chicago P.D.,” “Chicago Med,” “Chicago Fire,” “FBI” and “FBI Most Wanted.” Örvarsson’s overall Bmi awards tally is up to 23.
Winning three trophies apiece were Tyler Bates, Brian Tyler and Mac Quayle.
Quayle won for “American Horror Story,” “9-1-1 ” and the spinoff “9-1-1: Lone Star.” Brian Tyler got his honors for “Hawaii Five-0,” “Magnum P.I.” and “Yellowstone.” With these three, he now has 33 awards from Bmi. Tyler Bates’ trophies came for the theatrical films “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw” and “John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum” along with Netflix’s “The Punisher.
The most awards, five, went to Icelandic composer Atli Örvarsson, who won for his contributions to “Chicago P.D.,” “Chicago Med,” “Chicago Fire,” “FBI” and “FBI Most Wanted.” Örvarsson’s overall Bmi awards tally is up to 23.
Winning three trophies apiece were Tyler Bates, Brian Tyler and Mac Quayle.
Quayle won for “American Horror Story,” “9-1-1 ” and the spinoff “9-1-1: Lone Star.” Brian Tyler got his honors for “Hawaii Five-0,” “Magnum P.I.” and “Yellowstone.” With these three, he now has 33 awards from Bmi. Tyler Bates’ trophies came for the theatrical films “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw” and “John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum” along with Netflix’s “The Punisher.
- 6/15/2020
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
If HBO's "Girls" wasn't already considered the most hipster-centric show on television, this first teaser video for Season 3 ought to clinch the title.
For the first look at the season, returning in early 2014, Lena Dunham's decided to give us a video comprised entirely of Instagram photos. It plays like a summer vacation slide show like your great aunt used to show, only it's totally hip and cool because it's set to the beat of Robert ToTeras' "Break Out The Boom Boom."
While it's absent of any actual plot details, at least we know that the gang will hit the beach this season, Jemima Kirke's Jessa is back after abandoning Hannah near the end of Season 2, and Elijah's back in the picture now that Andrew Rannells doesn't have an NBC comedy anymore.
Check out the teaser above and let us know if you're ready to return to Brooklyn...
For the first look at the season, returning in early 2014, Lena Dunham's decided to give us a video comprised entirely of Instagram photos. It plays like a summer vacation slide show like your great aunt used to show, only it's totally hip and cool because it's set to the beat of Robert ToTeras' "Break Out The Boom Boom."
While it's absent of any actual plot details, at least we know that the gang will hit the beach this season, Jemima Kirke's Jessa is back after abandoning Hannah near the end of Season 2, and Elijah's back in the picture now that Andrew Rannells doesn't have an NBC comedy anymore.
Check out the teaser above and let us know if you're ready to return to Brooklyn...
- 8/19/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Who needs high-priced television production when you’ve got Instagram? To promote the new season of its hit series “Girls,” HBO released a promo consisting solely of effects-altered photos taken during filming of season three.
The Instagram-esque shots gave viewers quick glimpses of what’s to come when the hit returns early next year. The girls head to the beach, Hannah talks on the phone in a tire swing, and Adam Driver smiles in a kind of cute-creepy way.
The 31-second video is edited to a song by Robert ToTeras, called “Break Out The Boom Boom.”
Girls, Lena Dunham and Driver have all been nominated for Emmy awards for their work on the show's second season.
Watch the clip below!
The Instagram-esque shots gave viewers quick glimpses of what’s to come when the hit returns early next year. The girls head to the beach, Hannah talks on the phone in a tire swing, and Adam Driver smiles in a kind of cute-creepy way.
The 31-second video is edited to a song by Robert ToTeras, called “Break Out The Boom Boom.”
Girls, Lena Dunham and Driver have all been nominated for Emmy awards for their work on the show's second season.
Watch the clip below!
- 8/19/2013
- GossipCenter
While there aren't a lot of plot reveals in HBO’s just-released video for the upcoming season of Girls — the gang goes to the beach, there’s a lot of Adam — it is made up entirely of uber-filtered production shots strung together to Robert ToTeras’s “Break Out The Boom Boom.” We’ll have to wait until 2014 to find out whether that song means anything to the overall storyline (probably yes). Until then, think of the teaser below as a nice little break from your personal Instagram obsession.
- 8/19/2013
- by Delia Paunescu
- Vulture
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