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#10 – Alexander Mirecki & Morgan Krantz (creators of Neurotica) at Atwater Village

October 25, 2016 by tombenedek@gmail.com


Alexander Mirecki (All Together Now) & Morgan Krantz (Babysitter) talk about making indie features and creating a webseries, Neurotica, currently in its second season

We talk about:

  • The fundamentals of making a webseries
  • The importance of episode length
  • Deriving stories from real life
  • Translating ninety seconds into half an hour
  • Shifting storytelling from season to season

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Quotes from the show: 

“We’re building out a world where we want threads, but they can’t be relationships. It’s about lonliness, ultimately, the show.”

“We like to say (Neurotica) is like Seinfeld on acid.”

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Filed Under: Podcasts Tagged With: All Together Now, Babysitter, Being There, Bruce Springsteen, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Don Quixote, Endemol, FX, Girls, High Maintenance, Inside Out, Israel, Louis CK, Mr. Bean, Neurotica, New Girl, Peter Sellers, Reckless Tortuga, Seinfeld, The Office, WME

#13 – Ben Jacobson (literary TV agent) at United Talent Agency

November 15, 2016 by tombenedek@gmail.com

Ben Jacobson (United Talent Agency) discusses representing drama and comedy television writers, directors and producers and the nature of today’s industry

We Talk About:

  • Staffing season and the selling cycle
  • Developing and branding for a network vs. cable
  • Different kinds of working writers today
  • Breaking in with a new voice
  • What a pitch meeting is really like
  • Current trends in comedy and drama
  • Navigating and structuring deals
  • Curating digital content and its future

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Quotes from the Show:

“It really comes from an idea, a book or a format or an original idea, and it’s about where can it live in the purest form for that idea instead of trying to jam everything into one box or the other.”

“Young people grow up and they want to create something… those creative juices are now naturally gravitating towards television.”

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Filed Under: Podcasts Tagged With: ABC, Amy Schumer, Awesomeness TV, Bo Burnham, Breaking Bad, Burn Notice, CAA, cable, Casual, Catastrophe, CBS, CBS studios, Comedy Central, CW, E1, Empire, FX, Game of Thrones, HBO, Jason Blumenthal, Johnny Depp, Louie, Mark Gordon, Martin Scorsese, Master of None, Mick Jagger, Mr. Robot, My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Netflix, network, Outsiders, Sam Esmail, Sci-Fi, Scott Free, Shonda Rhimes, Stranger Things, The Sopranos, The Walking Dead, Todd Black, Togetherness, UCB, Vinyl, Workaholics, YouTube Red

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