This might be wrong, but a few key sentences leapt out.
"Most people don't realise that, even for successful writers, the good-v-great ratio is low: Guy Chambers (songwriter behind Robbie Williams's best-loved anthems) has written more than 1,000 songs in the last 15 years..."
So that's 1000 songs in 15 years.
= 66 songs per year.
= 5.5 songs per month.
= about 4-6 minutes of polished material per week.
The music writing process is different, but not light years away from writing screenplay.
So maybe we should go a little easier on ourselves about the quantities we generate each week?
"...most writers would agree it's necessary to write non-hits to get to the nuggets. As with athletes, it's important to exercise the writing muscle."
Meet the characters in this, the first instalment of what Gandhi called "The Greatest Show on Earth." Find out how through sheer tenacity, Charlie and Geoff (Sabian) both find their way into Beth and Ollie's flat. Meet the people you are about to spend the rest of your life watching.
The Pro Show Episode 2
In the second Episode, Geoff (Sabian) takes Ollie and Beth's date night as an opportunity to seduce a Christian woman by whining and dining her. In the meantime Charlie struggles to talk sense into his annoying friend Eugiene. Together they try to salvage Eugiene's failing Master League.
The Pro Show Episode 3
The penultimate episode sees things get darker, nuttier, bigger, better and uncutter. Things take a turn for the worse in the house. Be prepared to take the good with the evil.
Here are some useful links that came up at the Sheffield Children's Media Conference 2011 #tcmc...
CHILDREN'S APPS - INNOVATION SHOWCASE: A Tale of Three Apps
3 examples of small companies doing it for themselves, and getting their apps/content out there directly rather than via broadcaster. Or being commissioned by the broadcaster to build the app.
Charles Kriel on Twitter
A Bear Ate All The Brussels Sprouts, Handmade Mother Goose, Pigment's Play Pen
Came across this great piece of radio - a documentary that covers pretty much the complete history of social media by Rory Cellan Jones - and it's available for download as a podcast here:
"It’s about two guys who regularly meet in the pub to break up the monotony of their working day but when they realise life is passing them by, they decide to do something about it."
New eps every Friday
I'm posting this again -- partly because its one of the most useful articles I've watched on the issue of making money from eyeballs vs. scarcity, and mostly because it is one of the articles that has disappeared from the 'search this blog' box at the top of this blog...
(My original post is here...)
Came across this awesome article by Michael Masnick on techdirt:-
"Earlier this year, we wrote about the ridiculous situation that Nina Paley faced in trying to release an amazing film, Sita Sings the Blues.
Basically, some copyright holders of the music used in the film put positively insane terms on the use of their music. This made no sense, considering that the music (from the 1920s) was mostly unlistened to these days -- and the only thing the movie would likely do is increase demand for people to get legitimate versions of the music.
Eventually, Paley worked out a plan to release the film under a Creative Commons license and put in place a business model like the ones we've talked about for years: give away the infinite, sell the scarce.
And apparently, it's working. Pistol points us to a talk that Nina Paley just gave revealing some of the results. You can see the video here (it's a bit over 20 minutes):"
"SITA SINGS THE BLUES Distribution Project Report
If it's free, how do you make money?? 5 months after the Creative Commons Share Alike release of her animated musical feature Sita Sings the Blues, Nina Paley presents the first round of hard data from the project.
Contrary to MPAA propaganda, the more the audience freely shares the film, the more they purchase DVDs, theater admissions, and merchandise; witness the $$ numbers that prove it. Nina Paley is the creator of the animated musical feature film Sita Sings the Blues, which has screened in over 150 film festivals and won over 30 international awards including the Annecy Grand Crystal, The IFFLA Grand Jury Prize, and a Gotham Award.
Her adventures in our broken copyright system led her to Copyleft her film, and join QuestionCopyright.org as Artist-in-Residence."
...web drama, online comedy, online narrative, interactive drama, internet television series, multi-platform storytelling, webseries, web series, web tv, webisodes, transmedia, multiplatform or interactive narrative... whatever you call it, we're watching.
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