Take Your Daughter To Work Day, on the RDA...

Came across this fragment of The RDA with John Gordillo, from April 2000...



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created by John Gordillo & Neil Mossey


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TV Writers Day - Leicester Comedy Festival 2010

Appearing this Saturday on the panel at the TV Writers Day at DMU.

Eminent TV writers are to share their expertise and career advice at a public event at De Montfort University later this month during Leicester Comedy Festival.

The event consists of keynote speeches along with question and answer panels hosted by DMU’s MA Television Scriptwriting team.

More details here:-
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/news_events/news/current/100215_2_TV_Scriptwriting_day.jsp


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sock sucker

New swears for pre-watershed comedy scripts come from odd places.
Like ESPN Argentina.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jan/21/carlos-tevez-gary-neville-boot-licker


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Writing for standup for radio

Writing for/ at/ with/ stand-up comedian John Gordillo and his appearance last week on the Radio 4 behemoth, the News Quiz.

The process still looks pretty much like this, but without the pictures.

What we came up with sounds a bit like this.






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This year, in development

The upside with working on development projects is the variety of the blank page, and the chance to mould material from scratch.

The downside? Can't even mention who I'm working for, let alone on what.

Proud to plug, though, currently in the presence of like-minded souls in the Talkback Thames comedy department, and the only way I can pretty up this post is with this 2010 updated version of the old Thames TV logo.
(from roll the dice on the Londonist blog)

Freefonix - Prepsie Idol - one more time

Just seen the episode of Freefonix which I wrote with Rob Venes, PREPSIE IDOL, gets another airing tomorrow on CBBC.

from www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b009gcz1

Children's animation about a teenage band that discover a magic note, much to the chagrin of the record companies.

While Mya tries to figure out a way to sell Fizzy Blast, an overly carbonated ComaCo soft drink, Vox announces he's detected a 13th note prodigy in Los Bosmos. Seeing a way to kill two birds with one stone, Mya holds a viddycast prepsie music contest designed to draw out the prodigy.

Freez alone gets picked to perform, while BB and Mo track down Coda, the prodigy. BB empathizes with Coda's desire to win the contest, but she convinces him not to play 13th note. As Coda and Freefonix get away, the Mantis goes after them. A sound clash ensues in which Coda helps our heroes defeat Kurtz, Lady Lux and Hitt.

All my Freefonix links here
http://neilmossey.blogspot.com/search/label/Freefonix

Working on a sketch show...

Follow up to "what writing with a standup actually looks like".

Hedz wins TWO BAFTAs

HEDZ - ('live action' sketch series - wrote over 2 hours of material with Ed Dyson)
- won 2 BAFTA awards...

Best Entertainment, Children's and Best Children's Programme, Scotland.

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My site for following Online Drama and Webseries ...

Started this blog:- http://storygas.blogspot.com/

Here's more from the ABOUT ME page on the site:-


In 2008, I was a writer on Season 2 of the Online Drama KateModern: storylining 157 and scripting 74 webisodes in six months. The series gained 66 million video hits - and a community response so seemingly disproportionate to the short daily episodes we were delivering.

Something else was going on, and I was getting first hand experience (guided by the path blazed by Miles Greg and Amanda - The lonelygirl15 Creators) - a transaction with the audience which is vastly different from the one we're used to in TV, Radio and Film production.

The series was being produced while the audience was able to comment, contact, contribute to and discuss - and feedback from that community was incorporated back into the series. Which, in turn, strengthened and grew the community around it.

Since the show came to an end in June this year, I have given talks on what it was like working on KateModern, and "Writing Online Narrative" more generally - and found myself referencing the same shows, links and sites. It seemed crazy not to have a place where I could 'bank' those, and update them with more news and links as I stumble upon them myself.

Welcome to StoryGas!

The posts are biased towards...

- Online narrative

(rather than factual or entertainment series,
such as "Black Cab Sessions"
StSanders' surreal genius Shreds,
or BBC News' "The Box")

- Live action

(rather than animations like Salad Fingers
or Charlie The Unicorn)

- 'Open' shows

(produced and uploaded while the audience are (or were) able to contribute, rather than 'closed' series which are completely produced, done and dusted, before uploading).

This is probably the biggest difference between "Online Narrative" and say, a TV show on, say, BBC iplayer. The definitions of 'ongoing' are still bedding down - a 'closed' one-off show such as Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog could be seen as part of the ongoing community around Joss Whedon's content, or the completed series of The Guild as part of a larger building of a community around that show...


So this is the blog. In the meantime I'm working on 3 commissioned online shows, and hope to share gossip from them with you here as they progress.

Feel free to say HI by clicking on anywhere marked "Comments" -- there are already others out there writing and producing online shows... with exactly the same questions as you -- we can help each other out with the answers!

Or email direct - storygas at gmail dot com

http://storygas.blogspot.com/

Hedz Nominated for 3 BAFTA Awards

HEDZ - the CBBC/BBC Scotland sketch show has been nominated for three BAFTA Awards
- Best Entertainment, Childrens',
- Best TV Show, Kids Vote,
- and best Childrens' Programme, Scotland (a Scottish BAFTA!).

Simon Cowell says: 
"AND I SHALL BE THE JUDGE!"

http://www.bafta.org/awards/childrens/nominations-childrens-awards-in-2008,593,BA.html

http://www.baftascotland.co.uk/Awards-2008/nominations