The Precinct: Characters pt 1 – Ackersley & Rochman
Now that I’m putting together a new version of The Precinct pitch/bible/thing I thought I’d do something I meant to do years ago on this blog: introduce the characters properly. I’ll try to add them regularly. Here’s today’s!
Ackersley is the most dangerous officer at The Precinct: a loose cannon, a renegade.
As an undercover “narc”, he [...]
SPAA Fringe: What I learned from nice ABC ladies
I attended SPAA Fringe a few weeks back. SPAA Fringe is a conference run by SPAA (Screen Producers Association of Australia) which doesn’t cost too much to attend and features interesting talks by various knowledgeable people in the entertainment industry. There is also the chance for shlubs like myself and my co-writer, Adam, to [...]
Precinct planning resumes
I went to COMICS CAMP a couple weekends ago, and since then I’ve been hard into (my day job, my freelance work, and also) my two current projects: a short film called John Howard’s Knees and the animated cop show currently known as The Precinct.
While I was on comics camp (which I blogged more extensively [...]
Summaries of pitches of strategies
Going to get a video of my MEGA pitch up as soon as I get hold of the (undoubtedly embarrassing) clip, but this is a summary of where The Precinct is now (also a summary of my pitch), as written for the MEGA guys:
THE PRECINCT
Australia doesn’t have its own animated series for adults; a [...]
Animation time again!
The MEGA pitch went really well! Unfortunately, none of the broadcasters or entertainment types Justin invited actually showed! True, the pitches were happening right in the middle of the work day, but still… not good enough, ABC and SBS. You really had something better to do?…
TEN THINGS THE REPS FROM THE ABC MIGHT HAVE BEEN [...]
Tear it up
On Wednesday night our MEGA session was about “Financial Feasibility”.
In other words, we’d spent a couple months chucking ideas around in a friendly playpen, and our fearless leader Justin felt the need to dampen our enthusiasm by dropping some people with market experience on us.
One was the afore-pictured (is that a word?) Brendan Lewis, and [...]
