Today I decided to set up a brand new YouTube Channel (page) for my upcoming web series, Resurrection of Serious Rogers. I’d been delaying it because my current channel, Hollywoodcity, is monetized. I didn’t want to move my precious videos to a channel that wasn’t monetized.
Well today I got a pleasant surprise. Shortly after I setup my new Youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/SeriousRogersSeries, lo and behold, I received a notification to monetize my channel!! Huzzah!
I’ve just finished watching the Giants whup the 49er’s asses and I’m excited, so I’m posting a little update on what’s going on Bellsville.
September 2011 I held a focus group for my film/web series Resurrection of Serious Rogers. Last week RSR screened in front of an audience gathered for the Show Us Your Shorts series hosted by KoldcastTV, First Glance Film and the Showbiz Cafe. The end result was, it’s time to release RSR as an action thriller, neo noir web series. Release date is to yet be determined but I hope to have a chat with YouTube, Koldcast, JTSTV and a few other web series portals before I jump into bed with one of them.
Interesting, but...
Interest is not an agreement. And without an agreement there is no money. But interest is better then indifference. I am happy to announce that a startup prodco with ties to major players in Hollywood is very interested in turning a sci-fi action idea I have into a full funded web series. There’ll be more meets and greetz over the next couple of weeks and I hope to have more info and definitive answers soon.
Speaking of definitive answers. In an earlier blog I talked about how I was submitting TV ideas to NBCUniversal through a relationship I have with IFTA (Independent Film and Television Alliance). Although they’ve passed on 80% of what I’ve sent, it looks like the newest submissions are still under consideration (sci-fi, spy and fantasy). Fingers crossed! As you know NBCUniversal represents NBC, G4, USA, Mun2, Oxygen, Bravo, Chiller and Cloo, Syfy.
This year we kick Legend of Black Lotus into high gear. And my old favorite romantic dramedy, Broken Hearts Club is moving on to mobile channels in the UK on Rok.tv soon. In the mean time, check isting on FetchTV and PunchTV, or just watch the whole thing online for free!
Oh, and we go back to Untitled Entertainment in a few weeks to lay it down!
Resurrection of Serious Rogers has been adapted into a webseries will be screening at the Show Us Ur Shorts: LA Web Series Playoffs on January 19th thanks to my friends at the First Glance Film Festival
Click the link to reserve tickets ASAP. Space is limited. is.gd/A9dUh3
Showbiz Store & Cafe – LA
500 S. Sepulveda Blvd.
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Los Angeles, CA 90049
Today the productivity meter stayed in the black despite my sitting down to watch a second hip hop documentary in two days. I thoroughly enjoyed the doc on rapper Missy Elliot, Supa-Dupa-Fly. Yesterday I watched the life and times of Death Row Records.
However, due to a late night last night, I had sufficient time to complete and tweak preliminary concepts for three TV series for Untitled Entertainment, as per my previous blog post here. Rather than play the mysterious card and omit 99% of the information I’ll drop some code names for the projects. One TV series concept is called “Miranda,” the other is called “Angel” and the last is called “Ariana.” The code names tie in with my preference for writing roles for women.
The big deal today for me was upgrading to Final Cut Pro 7 on my MacBook despite not having the requisite 128MB of VRAM. I ran a few Google searches and found a hack that allowed me to install the program and open a personal FCP project for “Resurrection of Serious Rogers,” my neo-noir thriller.
Install Final Cut Studio on Macs with less than 128MB VRAM. While it may not run too well, it is possible to get Final Cut Studio 3 to install with less than the ‘required’ 128MB VRAM.
Control-click on the installer package alias and choose Show Original from the pop-up menu. Control-click the original installer and choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. Navigate into the Contents » Resources folder. Control-click on the Requirements Checker and choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. Navigate into the Contents » Resources folder, and then open minsys.plist with Property List Editor, the default (requires Xcode).
Change the value of AELMinimumVRAM from 128 to 64 (or less if you have even less VRAM). The installer will now run normally. After installing, Control-click on the Final Cut Pro.app in /Applications and choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. Navigate into Contents » Resources folder. Open the mimsys.plist file found there, and make the same change as above. Repeat for all the Final Cut Studio apps you have installed.
I have to admit, being the control freak I am about my projects, it’s been tough not having ready access to the footage.
The rest of the day I spent mentally preparing for a morning meeting with NBCUniversal, as I mentioned earlier. I’m really excited about this meeting because it’s one thing to develop a good TV series pilot on spec. It’s another thing entirely to know what type of series a network needs and develop a good TV series pilot based on an existing need.
On one hand I have an AD-turned-filmmaker telling me how “inspiring it is to see my persistence” and on the other hand I have folks talking [redacted] about me because I haven’t released my last film, Resurrection of Serious Rogers.
When you’re trying to make a film, the pot shots keep coming. People are short-sighted, and more often than not they are gullible to the charms of other who use impatience to rile everyone up. Be careful who you befriend and to whom you start mouthing off. Understand their motives first, and then realize that this filmmaking world is a small, small, small world. Word gets around.
I’m not interested in walking the red carpet and schmoozing at an event where the filmmakers used a credit card to pay for the venue. I’ll save my red carpet-walking days for when I’m at a star-studded premiere of one of my films, NOT one of my $1000 web series.
Today I decided to set up a brand new YouTube Channel (page) for my upcoming web series, Resurrection of Serious Rogers. I’d been delaying it because my current channel, Hollywoodcity, is monetized. I didn’t want to move my precious videos to a channel that wasn’t monetized.
