February 2008 Archives
Last night the PAC Script Labs got under way for 2008, this informal get together that occurs every two months allows an unproduced feature script to be read by a cast of professional actors allowing the projects Writers and Producers to hear their work performed for the first time and get the honest and open reactions of a captive and informed audience.
The first script for 2008 was Mary Beth Caschetta's 'Nuclear Family', which is already well down the road to production with Producers Amy Hobby, Melissa Kelly and Ryan Hodginson attached and experienced feature Director Melanie Rodriga onboard.
Vivienne Garrat ablely guided the audience through the film in her role of narrator. Kirsty Hillhouse played Joan, Helen Doig was Fran, Richard Mellick was Charlie and Chelsea Jones and Angus Edwards were brilliant in their roles of Kennedy and Jamie. Greg McNeill and Holly Jones played a wide range of additional characters. The actors were all first class and showed their amazing skill by bring the characters to life without any of the aids of make up, costumes or props.
'Nuclear Family' is described as a poignant and humerous look at modern family life that tells the story of 13 year old Kennedy Murphy whose life is turned upside down when her Mum gets cancer and her Dad runs off with a sales assistant.
The script was short, sharp and incredibly funny. While successfully telling a moving and emotional story, a delicate balance that was successfully achieved. Personally, I didn't really feel it was specifically told from the perspective of the character of Kennedy Murphy, becasue all the characters were so strong and well rounded. It came off as a great esemble piece. There were many laughs and unlike other script readings I've been to where the laughs may have been more from the actor than the written script, all of Nuclear Family's comedic gold are from the page.
An impressive number of Perth's filmmaking and acting community were in attendance including ScreenWest's Director of Production Development Harry Bardwell, Director Grant Sputore, upcoming Producer Annabelle Fouchard and the projects creative team who have just jetted back from raising funds at the Berlin Film Festival.
If you've never been to a script reading, it is a great event to attend. Find out more from PAC Screen Workshops.
The first script for 2008 was Mary Beth Caschetta's 'Nuclear Family', which is already well down the road to production with Producers Amy Hobby, Melissa Kelly and Ryan Hodginson attached and experienced feature Director Melanie Rodriga onboard.
Vivienne Garrat ablely guided the audience through the film in her role of narrator. Kirsty Hillhouse played Joan, Helen Doig was Fran, Richard Mellick was Charlie and Chelsea Jones and Angus Edwards were brilliant in their roles of Kennedy and Jamie. Greg McNeill and Holly Jones played a wide range of additional characters. The actors were all first class and showed their amazing skill by bring the characters to life without any of the aids of make up, costumes or props.
'Nuclear Family' is described as a poignant and humerous look at modern family life that tells the story of 13 year old Kennedy Murphy whose life is turned upside down when her Mum gets cancer and her Dad runs off with a sales assistant.
The script was short, sharp and incredibly funny. While successfully telling a moving and emotional story, a delicate balance that was successfully achieved. Personally, I didn't really feel it was specifically told from the perspective of the character of Kennedy Murphy, becasue all the characters were so strong and well rounded. It came off as a great esemble piece. There were many laughs and unlike other script readings I've been to where the laughs may have been more from the actor than the written script, all of Nuclear Family's comedic gold are from the page.
An impressive number of Perth's filmmaking and acting community were in attendance including ScreenWest's Director of Production Development Harry Bardwell, Director Grant Sputore, upcoming Producer Annabelle Fouchard and the projects creative team who have just jetted back from raising funds at the Berlin Film Festival.
If you've never been to a script reading, it is a great event to attend. Find out more from PAC Screen Workshops.
There is a good interview with Neil Koop, Producer of the independent films 'Old Joy' and new new gus Van Sant film 'Paranoid Park' over at Willamette Week.com
This new online tool allows you to record what you do on your desktop and then upload it to the interent, perfect for making screencasts which are a really helpful teaching resource.
Take a look at Jing.
Take a look at Jing.
It's been incredibly manically busy at FTI this week, so we're alittle late taking a look at the TV guide. There are so many media related events on in Perth this week, we suspect that nobody will get a chance to see a television this week.
SUNDAY
Sunday Arts
5:00pm ABC Magazine Program
This week there is a look at the play 'Black Watch' that just showed at the Perth International Arts Festival, the work of Anthony Gormley, Andy Warhol and Rufus Wainwright.
Who Do You Think You Are?
Artemis International excellent series continues, this week the focus is on Ita Butrose.
Underbelly
10:30pm Nine Drama Series
Channel 9 repeats it's new drama series in an encore performance.
MONDAY
To Kill a Mockingbird
8:15 FOX Classics Feature Film
Tune in if you've never seen this Gregory Peck classic.
Four Corners
8:30pm ABC Current Affairs
The ABC's flagship current affairs program returns for 2008, the first episode is a report from the outstanding jourlaist Liz Kacjson on the defeat of the Howard Government at last years federal election.
Media Watch
9:20pm ABC Media Watchdog
There was speculation that Media Watch might not return in 2008, but it has survived, yet is has a new presenter and producers, tune in to see if it has the same, blunter or sharper teeth.
WEDNESDAY
Cashmere Mafia
9:30pm Nine Drama Series
Another new big budget series from America, interestingly this one starts two Australians among the four lead actresses, tune in to see if it's lives up to it's 'new Sez and the City' hype. Remember, 'Desperate Housewives' was hyped as 'Sex in the City' for suburbia.
SUNDAY
Sunday Arts
5:00pm ABC Magazine Program
This week there is a look at the play 'Black Watch' that just showed at the Perth International Arts Festival, the work of Anthony Gormley, Andy Warhol and Rufus Wainwright.
Who Do You Think You Are?
Artemis International excellent series continues, this week the focus is on Ita Butrose.
Underbelly
10:30pm Nine Drama Series
Channel 9 repeats it's new drama series in an encore performance.
MONDAY
To Kill a Mockingbird
8:15 FOX Classics Feature Film
Tune in if you've never seen this Gregory Peck classic.
Four Corners
8:30pm ABC Current Affairs
The ABC's flagship current affairs program returns for 2008, the first episode is a report from the outstanding jourlaist Liz Kacjson on the defeat of the Howard Government at last years federal election.
Media Watch
9:20pm ABC Media Watchdog
There was speculation that Media Watch might not return in 2008, but it has survived, yet is has a new presenter and producers, tune in to see if it has the same, blunter or sharper teeth.
WEDNESDAY
Cashmere Mafia
9:30pm Nine Drama Series
Another new big budget series from America, interestingly this one starts two Australians among the four lead actresses, tune in to see if it's lives up to it's 'new Sez and the City' hype. Remember, 'Desperate Housewives' was hyped as 'Sex in the City' for suburbia.
The second of the WASA Wednesday screening included the documentary, 'Hyperdeluctomania - Wrestling with Addiction' Directed by Cameron Frost, an episode of the SBS series 'Marx and Venus', Steve McCall's 'Silent Beauty', Jeremy Passmore's 'Melancholy Tales: Bunny Slippers', Kirsten Robb's 'Why the Long Face', The VJ Zoo team of Kat Black and Jasper Cook's 'Banana' and Patrick Herford's stylish black and while film noir 'Hollywood Sign Girls'.
Atttending the screening was Laura Bailey and her friend Jamie, WASA volunteers Steve and Liz, Graeme Watson and Alison James, Cameron Frost and friends, 'Bunny Slippers' actor Tony Gold, Director Kristen Robb and Producer Christina Viannakis and Jasper Cook, Kat Black and Sam Proctor.
Atttending the screening was Laura Bailey and her friend Jamie, WASA volunteers Steve and Liz, Graeme Watson and Alison James, Cameron Frost and friends, 'Bunny Slippers' actor Tony Gold, Director Kristen Robb and Producer Christina Viannakis and Jasper Cook, Kat Black and Sam Proctor.
Students in the Advanced Diploma in Screen (Video Production) are currently halfway through their filming of four new short dramatic films. The pace is hectic with just four weeks to create four seperate 8min films. This week they have been shooting 'Homecoming'.
Session Three: Distribution
The Encore Directory is an invaluable resource for finding contact details.
Without a Box is a central place for entering and staying up to date with festivals and competitions.
Big Festivals
Festival de Cannes
Berlinale
Sundance
Annecy
Ottowa Animation Festival
Tribecca
Shefield Documentary
IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
Australian Festivals
Flickerfest
Tropfest
Melbourne International Film Festival
Sydney Film Festival
Adelaide Film Festival
Revelation Perth International Film Festival
Underground and Specialised
Melbourne Underground Film Festival
SPLIF Screening Perth Local Indepedent Film
Slamdance
Imaginenative
Local Festivals
In the Can
Mandurah Short Film Festival
Bridgetown Film Festival
Flake
Wave Rock Weekender
Online distribution
Good Copy Bad Copy
Four Eyed Monsters More about his film
Shadow of the Seraph
Markets
MIPCOM
Sessions Four: Promotion
Hollywood Sign Girls
Suicidal Balloon Ransis and Alee
Dean Francis
The team at VJ Zoo use Flickr to distribut etheir promotional pictures.
Blogging Peter Templeman
T-shirts
Session Five: Developing a Career
The Encore Directory is an invaluable resource for finding contact details.
Without a Box is a central place for entering and staying up to date with festivals and competitions.
Big Festivals
Festival de Cannes
Berlinale
Sundance
Annecy
Ottowa Animation Festival
Tribecca
Shefield Documentary
IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
Australian Festivals
Flickerfest
Tropfest
Melbourne International Film Festival
Sydney Film Festival
Adelaide Film Festival
Revelation Perth International Film Festival
Underground and Specialised
Melbourne Underground Film Festival
SPLIF Screening Perth Local Indepedent Film
Slamdance
Imaginenative
Local Festivals
In the Can
Mandurah Short Film Festival
Bridgetown Film Festival
Flake
Wave Rock Weekender
Online distribution
Good Copy Bad Copy
Four Eyed Monsters More about his film
Shadow of the Seraph
Markets
MIPCOM
Sessions Four: Promotion
Hollywood Sign Girls
Suicidal Balloon Ransis and Alee
Dean Francis
The team at VJ Zoo use Flickr to distribut etheir promotional pictures.
Blogging Peter Templeman
T-shirts
Session Five: Developing a Career
Today was the first day of the Producer's Bootcamp, our intensive two day introduction the role and essential skills of being a producer in the world of film and television.
We started off with an informative talk from Sue Taylor of Taylor Media. Sue's career has spanned 30 yeard and her recent work includes television programs like 'Marx and Venus' on SBS and the aclaimed mini series 'The Shark Net' for ABC TV as well as feature films like 'Last Train to Freo'.
The very experienced, Carmelo Musca from CM Film Productions shared his Knowledge of developing projects, using shows like 'The Slow Food Revolution' and 'Just a Game' to demonstrate his points. Carmelo showed how to build on ideas and gave honest and practical advice for long term survivial in the screen industry. ScreenWest's Shannon Jenkins and Phil Jeng Kane from FTI discussed how projects are selected for funding, common mistakes that are seen and shared practical advice on how to best prepare an application.
In the afternoon Robyn Marias showed us the detailed world of the AFC's A-Z budget and used the short film 'Mobile' as an example is scheduling and budgeting.
There were lots of acronyms thrown about today, and lots of different schemes and initatives mentioned. I've added some links to some of the commonly discussed items below.
Screen Producers Association Australia (SPAA)
Australian Film Comision, (AFC) this is where you can download blank A-Z budgets.
Film Australia
Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) Big Documentary get together in Fremantle this month.
AIDCfringe early carrer spin off event at FTI
Fast Furious Four Pitching Competition at AIDCfringe
ScreenWest State Government Funding Agency in WA, In NSW it is FTO, in QLD PFTC, in VIC it's Film Victoria.
The Business This is a great overview of the filmmaking process.
We started off with an informative talk from Sue Taylor of Taylor Media. Sue's career has spanned 30 yeard and her recent work includes television programs like 'Marx and Venus' on SBS and the aclaimed mini series 'The Shark Net' for ABC TV as well as feature films like 'Last Train to Freo'.
The very experienced, Carmelo Musca from CM Film Productions shared his Knowledge of developing projects, using shows like 'The Slow Food Revolution' and 'Just a Game' to demonstrate his points. Carmelo showed how to build on ideas and gave honest and practical advice for long term survivial in the screen industry. ScreenWest's Shannon Jenkins and Phil Jeng Kane from FTI discussed how projects are selected for funding, common mistakes that are seen and shared practical advice on how to best prepare an application.
In the afternoon Robyn Marias showed us the detailed world of the AFC's A-Z budget and used the short film 'Mobile' as an example is scheduling and budgeting.
There were lots of acronyms thrown about today, and lots of different schemes and initatives mentioned. I've added some links to some of the commonly discussed items below.
Screen Producers Association Australia (SPAA)
Australian Film Comision, (AFC) this is where you can download blank A-Z budgets.
Film Australia
Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) Big Documentary get together in Fremantle this month.
AIDCfringe early carrer spin off event at FTI
Fast Furious Four Pitching Competition at AIDCfringe
ScreenWest State Government Funding Agency in WA, In NSW it is FTO, in QLD PFTC, in VIC it's Film Victoria.
The Business This is a great overview of the filmmaking process.
This weeks Super Bowl in the USA saw Pixar reveal a new advertisement for their upcomming animation WALL*E. The more I see of this film the more excited I get.
Television summer hybernation period is offically over as the official ratings period begins a bundle of new shows are set to hit our screens.
THURSDAY
In the Company of Actors
8:30pm ABC Documentary
A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the New York production of Andrew Upton's Hedda Gabler starring Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Aden Young, and Justine Clark. Within the world of theatre, the rehearsal room is a sacred space, the private domain where boundaries are pushed, risks are taken, mistakes made, and vulnerabilities exposed. It is not a place into which the public is often, if ever, invited...until now.
Out of the Question
8:30pm Seven Variety
The first week of Glen Robbins new show did well in the ratings but badly in the reviews and water cooler discussions. Will it get it's act together or is time already ticking towards a great big axe?
Lost
9:30pm Seven Drama
Season 4 of this complicated series gets underway tonight, straight from it's US screenings. Due to the writers strike there is only going to be a few episodes this year. The final episode of Season Three found a novel way to breathe life into the series - along with the usual flashbacks there are now also flash forwards.
FRIDAY
Cassablanca
6:30pm Fox Classics
A true classic.
Samantha Who
10:45pm Seven Sitcom
Christina Applegate returns to TV in this sitcom about a girl who is starting life again after suffering retrograde amnesia. Barry Watson, Jean Smart, Jennifer Esposito and Tim Russ also star. Usually screening time is Sunday evenings.
SATURDAY
State of Play
6:30pm UKTV Drama Mini Series
This excellent mini series is currently being remade in the USA. Stars Bill Nighy, James MCAvoy, Kelly McDonald, John Simm, Philip Glenister and Marc Warren. Written by Paul Abbot ('Linda Green', 'Shameless')
Shorts on Screen
10:15pm SBS Short Films
Mare Capoeira - Sport, dance or martial art? This graceful Brazilian film tells the history of Capoeira through the eyes of 10-year-old Joao, last in a long line of Capoeira masters. Golden Gate Palace 2 - Golden Gate Palace 2 is the multi award winning short film by the same directors who made City of God. Two young boys living in the favelas of Rio scheme to get some money for concert tickets. Winner of Best Film - Flickerfest 2003. Bit of Black Business: Bloodlines - Bloodlines is about finding your heritage in urban Australia. Finding out where your blood runs. Josh has a phone call to make, but he finds plenty of delaying tactics to put off the inevitable. Street Rats - Animation of a day in the life of a street kid who tries to survive in a large Brazilian city. Frauline Gertie - An animated tale of what could happen on a first date with Miss Gertie. Grand Prize winner at Castelli Animati - Italy 2006.
SUNDAY
Sunday Arts
5:00pm ABC Magazine Program
Unfortunatly the ABC has not updated the Sunday Arts website this year, so who knows what may be included in this episode.
Vanished
8:00pm Fox8 Drama
This new drama from the 2007 US season didn't survive past the first season, it begins off staring Gale Harold from 'Queer as Folk' but he is written out after just a few episodes.
Creative Disorders
8:30pm SBS Documentary
Award-winning pianist Nick Van Bloss had his career destroyed mid-performance by his Tourette's Syndrome. Struck by the illness as a child, music became his salvation as focussing on the piano keys held his tics at bay. Nick now needs to know why this has happened to him. Tourette's ruined his career, but did it also create it? The spectre of the "mad-genius" has gripped the imagination for years, but is it real? This program looks at the latest evidence that links creativity and disorder. It also unveils the extraordinary world of Tourette's Syndrome and compares it with the symptoms of autism, schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder.
Dogville Confessions
11:45pm SBS Documentary
Behind the scenes on Lar Von Tiers intriguing 'Dogville' feature.
MONDAY
BAFTA
6:30pm ARENA Awards Show
Just like the Oscars only British.
Desperate Housewives
8:30pm Seven Drama
Season 4 begins and Dana Delaney joins the cast.
Good News Week
9:00pm Ten Comedy
Following the failure axing of 'The Glass House' and the failure of 'The Side Show' the GNW team return to 'Good News Week'. Paul's back, Mikey's back, Julia McCrossin isn't. Claire Hooper from The Sideshow takes her seat.
Dirty Sexy Money
9:30pm Seven Drama
Channel 7 has been promoting this show everywhere. Stars Donald Sutherland.
TUESDAY
Monster House
7:30pm Nine Comedy
Here's something a little different, from the director of Kath and Kim, Monster House is a comedy with a twist. Meet the Webbs, Australia's newest freakiest family who delight in luring unsuspecting and ordinary Australians into their crazy world. In fact, the real stars of Monster House are unscripted and unrehearsed. Each week join John, Karen, Natalie, Penny, Jack and Nanna Doris for the side-splitting antics they get up to in their Monster House.
Terminator; The Sarah Connor Chronicles
8:30pm Nine Drama
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles picks up on the popular Terminator movie series and reveals what happens when Sarah stops running to face the enemy hell bent on destroying her life, and perhaps the world. Her son, 15 year old John Connor knows that he may be the future of mankind but is not ready to take on the leadership that he's told is his destiny. The first episode got huge ratings in the US but has since begun to struggle.
Women's Murder Club
8:30pm TEN Drama
Homicide Inspector Lindsay Boxer and her colleagues Medical Examiner Claire Washburn, and District Attorney Jill Bernhardt use their expertise, their close friendship and their instincts to solve the most grisly murder cases in San Francisco.
WEDNESDAY
Rules of Engagement
7:30pm Ten Sitcom
The first episode of this David Spade sitcom is actually OK, I usually hate US sitcoms.
Back to You
8:00pm Ten Sitcom
Kesley Grammer (Frasier) and Patricia Heaton (Everyone Loves Raymond) star as newsreaders. It has some funny moments, especially from Grammer.
Lewis
8:30pm Seven Drama
Five years after Morse's death, Lewis - now promoted to Inspector - returns to his old stomping ground of the university city of Oxford after an attachment on the British Virgin Islands. Even before Lewis can get home from the airport, he and his new, much younger colleague, Hathaway, are diverted by the flashing blue lights and police activity of a murder scene, centred on the death by a single bullet of an American college student. Another student is suspected of being involved - and he coincidentally had a brush with the law some years previously, investigated by a certain Inspector Morse.
If this spin off takes off it will be worth a fortune.
Underbelly
8:30pm Nine Drama
THURSDAY
In the Company of Actors
8:30pm ABC Documentary
A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the New York production of Andrew Upton's Hedda Gabler starring Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Aden Young, and Justine Clark. Within the world of theatre, the rehearsal room is a sacred space, the private domain where boundaries are pushed, risks are taken, mistakes made, and vulnerabilities exposed. It is not a place into which the public is often, if ever, invited...until now.
Out of the Question
8:30pm Seven Variety
The first week of Glen Robbins new show did well in the ratings but badly in the reviews and water cooler discussions. Will it get it's act together or is time already ticking towards a great big axe?
Lost
9:30pm Seven Drama
Season 4 of this complicated series gets underway tonight, straight from it's US screenings. Due to the writers strike there is only going to be a few episodes this year. The final episode of Season Three found a novel way to breathe life into the series - along with the usual flashbacks there are now also flash forwards.
FRIDAY
Cassablanca
6:30pm Fox Classics
A true classic.
Samantha Who
10:45pm Seven Sitcom
Christina Applegate returns to TV in this sitcom about a girl who is starting life again after suffering retrograde amnesia. Barry Watson, Jean Smart, Jennifer Esposito and Tim Russ also star. Usually screening time is Sunday evenings.
SATURDAY
State of Play
6:30pm UKTV Drama Mini Series
This excellent mini series is currently being remade in the USA. Stars Bill Nighy, James MCAvoy, Kelly McDonald, John Simm, Philip Glenister and Marc Warren. Written by Paul Abbot ('Linda Green', 'Shameless')
Shorts on Screen
10:15pm SBS Short Films
Mare Capoeira - Sport, dance or martial art? This graceful Brazilian film tells the history of Capoeira through the eyes of 10-year-old Joao, last in a long line of Capoeira masters. Golden Gate Palace 2 - Golden Gate Palace 2 is the multi award winning short film by the same directors who made City of God. Two young boys living in the favelas of Rio scheme to get some money for concert tickets. Winner of Best Film - Flickerfest 2003. Bit of Black Business: Bloodlines - Bloodlines is about finding your heritage in urban Australia. Finding out where your blood runs. Josh has a phone call to make, but he finds plenty of delaying tactics to put off the inevitable. Street Rats - Animation of a day in the life of a street kid who tries to survive in a large Brazilian city. Frauline Gertie - An animated tale of what could happen on a first date with Miss Gertie. Grand Prize winner at Castelli Animati - Italy 2006.
SUNDAY
Sunday Arts
5:00pm ABC Magazine Program
Unfortunatly the ABC has not updated the Sunday Arts website this year, so who knows what may be included in this episode.
Vanished
8:00pm Fox8 Drama
This new drama from the 2007 US season didn't survive past the first season, it begins off staring Gale Harold from 'Queer as Folk' but he is written out after just a few episodes.
Creative Disorders
8:30pm SBS Documentary
Award-winning pianist Nick Van Bloss had his career destroyed mid-performance by his Tourette's Syndrome. Struck by the illness as a child, music became his salvation as focussing on the piano keys held his tics at bay. Nick now needs to know why this has happened to him. Tourette's ruined his career, but did it also create it? The spectre of the "mad-genius" has gripped the imagination for years, but is it real? This program looks at the latest evidence that links creativity and disorder. It also unveils the extraordinary world of Tourette's Syndrome and compares it with the symptoms of autism, schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder.
Dogville Confessions
11:45pm SBS Documentary
Behind the scenes on Lar Von Tiers intriguing 'Dogville' feature.
MONDAY
BAFTA
6:30pm ARENA Awards Show
Just like the Oscars only British.
Desperate Housewives
8:30pm Seven Drama
Season 4 begins and Dana Delaney joins the cast.
Good News Week
9:00pm Ten Comedy
Following the failure axing of 'The Glass House' and the failure of 'The Side Show' the GNW team return to 'Good News Week'. Paul's back, Mikey's back, Julia McCrossin isn't. Claire Hooper from The Sideshow takes her seat.
Dirty Sexy Money
9:30pm Seven Drama
Channel 7 has been promoting this show everywhere. Stars Donald Sutherland.
TUESDAY
Monster House
7:30pm Nine Comedy
Here's something a little different, from the director of Kath and Kim, Monster House is a comedy with a twist. Meet the Webbs, Australia's newest freakiest family who delight in luring unsuspecting and ordinary Australians into their crazy world. In fact, the real stars of Monster House are unscripted and unrehearsed. Each week join John, Karen, Natalie, Penny, Jack and Nanna Doris for the side-splitting antics they get up to in their Monster House.
Terminator; The Sarah Connor Chronicles
8:30pm Nine Drama
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles picks up on the popular Terminator movie series and reveals what happens when Sarah stops running to face the enemy hell bent on destroying her life, and perhaps the world. Her son, 15 year old John Connor knows that he may be the future of mankind but is not ready to take on the leadership that he's told is his destiny. The first episode got huge ratings in the US but has since begun to struggle.
Women's Murder Club
8:30pm TEN Drama
Homicide Inspector Lindsay Boxer and her colleagues Medical Examiner Claire Washburn, and District Attorney Jill Bernhardt use their expertise, their close friendship and their instincts to solve the most grisly murder cases in San Francisco.
WEDNESDAY
Rules of Engagement
7:30pm Ten Sitcom
The first episode of this David Spade sitcom is actually OK, I usually hate US sitcoms.
Back to You
8:00pm Ten Sitcom
Kesley Grammer (Frasier) and Patricia Heaton (Everyone Loves Raymond) star as newsreaders. It has some funny moments, especially from Grammer.
Lewis
8:30pm Seven Drama
Five years after Morse's death, Lewis - now promoted to Inspector - returns to his old stomping ground of the university city of Oxford after an attachment on the British Virgin Islands. Even before Lewis can get home from the airport, he and his new, much younger colleague, Hathaway, are diverted by the flashing blue lights and police activity of a murder scene, centred on the death by a single bullet of an American college student. Another student is suspected of being involved - and he coincidentally had a brush with the law some years previously, investigated by a certain Inspector Morse.
If this spin off takes off it will be worth a fortune.
Underbelly
8:30pm Nine Drama
New Australian drama series about the true story of the 10 year
gangland war that shocked Australia. Charming gangster Alphonse
Gangitano, also known as The Black Prince, gets away with murder but
finds himself in a deadly feud with the ruthless Moran Brothers. Starts off with a double episode.
That Mitchell and Webb Look
9:35pm ABC Sketch Comedy
A new sketch comedy series from the UK from the Team behin ;The Peep Show'.
That Mitchell and Webb Look
9:35pm ABC Sketch Comedy
A new sketch comedy series from the UK from the Team behin ;The Peep Show'.
The first in a series of WASA Wednesday's allowed Perth's filmmakers and film lovers to get a look at the recently announced nominees for the upcomming 21st WA Screen Awards. Screened in the Bohemia Outdoor Cinema at FTI the crowd enjoyed a range of short films encompassing animation, drama and documentary including 'Dox', 'No Ropes, No Rules: The SAW A-e', '20/20', 'Reflections', 'Erix ERA Prix', 'Edgar and Elizabeth', 'Colour', 'Wrong Way', 'The Music Box', and 'La Serena'. The WASA Wednesday run for the next two weeks and entry is by donation.
Spotted in the crowd were Aim Kanokgan Chokchaiaphiwat, Andrew Gavin Taylor, Dave Ronnert, Daniel Walsh and Luke Hardman, Henry Inglis and Arron McCann, Annabelle Fouchard, Zebedee Parkes, Ross MCCallum and Sam Freeman,Phil Jeng Kane, Mathew Voysey, Louise Brady and Brett Cullen, Justin Morissey, Alison James and Liz Sideris
It's a few years since I fist stumbled over this little piece of flash animation online. I just love the character and his emotive enthusiasm. It's a great link to have at your finger tips for when you mess something up as well - drop it in an email to offer a heartfelt appology.
This Australian Writers' Guild (AWG) seminar on February 23 with Jim Shomos will focus on the creative and commercial aspects of producing original digital media content.
This is an interactive presentation highlighting a number of local and international case-studies including: animation, games and live action comedy/drama.
Course presenter Jim Shomos, creator and producer of the ground-breaking cross media comedy series ‘Forget The Rules', will show participants how to embrace the opportunities presented by the digital revolution, and tap into the world of viewing video online and on mobiles.
Forget The Rules was the first comedy/drama series in the world to broadcast all episodes on TV, broadband and mobiles, and was nominated for two MIPCOM Internet and Mobile TV Awards in 2006: best original content, and best interactive format (winner). The second series of Forget The Rules was broadcast in 2007.
The presentation is aimed at writers, producers and other content creators and emerging practitioners are welcome. In this seminar you will gain valuable insight into how you can extend the success of your traditional project, or create original content specifically for the digital world.
The course will include:
- An overview on what digital media, and other terms such as cross-media and interactivity, really mean to content makers.
- Examples of digital content - both successful and unsuccessful.
- Effective creative process and techniques for this media.
- Case studies on local and international projects.
- Distribution opportunities.
- Revenue models and sources of production funding.
- Case studies on funding production and business success.
When: 10.00am - 4.30pm, Saturday February 23
Where: TBC
Cost: AWG members $15, others $20 to be paid at the door
Bookings: Email Alan Payne at the Writer's Guild. Your email booking should include a brief outline of your background and experience, and a contact phone number. In the subject heading of the email, please write ‘SURNAME Digital Media'.
For further inquiries contact Alan Payne by phone (08) 9201 1172.The closing date for bookings is 5.00pm, Thursday February 21.
