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Below, find some observations on web series content, a continuation of my last post, “Web Series Trends.” Content: Several trends became apparent as I watched through more webisodes. For lack of better words, I’ll name them comedy, sex and self-reflexivity. Comedy. Comedy, like horror, seems to lend itself to low-budget production. Watching through a batch of the better-reviewed web series, […]

Deeming it an appropriate activity for my internship, I decided to take a half a day and survey the landscape of online-only series available for free viewing on the Internet. After all, once I do write/produce something, I need some way to get it noticed, and researching what’s already out there could serve to inform […]

I’m taking a break from “Conversations with a Pro” today to talk something that’s becoming an important and increasingly marketable medium as well as a source of opportunities for beginning writers: web series. My mentor followed a more traditional route to break into screenwriting. He wrote a Law and Order spec script that got produced, and he […]

In one sense it’s encouraging that my mentor is extremely busy. I often hear of the anxious time spent searching for employment or the desperate jobless waiting that even professional writers must regularly undergo. Jon doesn’t appear to be one of those writers. Soon after leaving Law and Order: SVU he got a new staff job writing […]

My internship is technically a “writing mentorship” that comprises six meetings with a professional screenwriter. My mentor, Jon Greene, is a Syracuse alum who wrote forLaw and Order: SVU for eleven years and is now working for a CBS drama premiering this fall, A Gifted Man: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/a_gifted_man/video/ Under Jon’s guidance I’m attempting to develop a pilot for […]

During my internship, I gathered a few pieces of advice and thoughts from coworkers, meetings and first hand experience. Thus, I thought I’d share. ♥  Learn SPANISH, especially if you move to LA. Any little bit you know can most helpful. If you’ve ever worked in a restaurant you know it to be true. Any […]

As anyone who took a production class learned, production is waiting.  That has not changed in this real world setting. As an intern at Allied Pixel in Media, PA, I’ve done a lot of waiting. On days I’m in the office, I come in, brew the morning coffee, and then wait for the rest of […]

The day of graduation, having skipped the ceremony, I drove down I-81 to I-476 to I-95 which allowed me to sleep in my own bed, to begin my internship two days after our Newhouse ceremony.  So, I get up at 6:30 AM, eat breakfast, pack lunch, and get on I-95, sit in traffic, and go […]

Now it is my last week at the MLB FanCave. I’ve had quite the experience here at the Cave and definitely a few memories that I will cherish forever. I got to meet one of my childhood heroes in Bernie Williams. I also got to meet all of the members of one of my favorite […]

Jessica Garfinkel made it clear that networking is the key essentials to landing a job and I myself cannot express enough that Ms. Garfinkel is so right! The entire process of finding a job can be a bit much. I say this because the online applications only show what you can do on paper versus […]