April 2011
1 post
That show I make I rarely post about (Vampire Mob) is audience-funded and our budget is staring down the barrel of zero as of Sunday. If you’d like to help us tell this story, please drop by our site and grab a shirt, coffee mug, script or other rewards that help us fund production. Thank you! http://www.VampireMob.com/
March 2011
3 posts
“I think that writers are made, not born or created out of dreams or childhood trauma — that becoming a writer is a direct result of conscious will. Of course there has to be some talent involved, but talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study; a constant process of...
December 2010
3 posts
Vampire Mob: Confessions of a Lucky #Webseries... →
vampiremob:
On this #webtvwed / #webserieswed I’d like to remind you, and myself, have FUN!
Isn’t that why you started in the first place, because it’s fun?
Yes, it’s hard work and yes, most people making a web series aren’t getting paid a dime, including myself. So, under those conditions, fun’s…
Marcia Wallace donated a signed script to the...
Treehouse of Horror XX to auction on eBay and help pay for season two! Marcia Rocketh!
Confessions of a Lucky #Webseries Creator (How do...
WRITING IS ORCHESTRATED DAYDREAMING. Writing is not work, it’s daydreaming on paper. The work is actually sitting down and doing it. I’ve never been asked how to write a web series, until last week. The questions included how to structure a series, both an episode and an entire season. There’s rules in screenwriting, both for TV and...
November 2010
5 posts
his day reminds me of family and of Thanksgiving...
Carl Carlton’s “She’s a Bad Mama Jamma”
I will not be traveling or seeing family for Thanksgiving because I’m on line outside Wal-Mart waiting for sales to start Friday. Believe the hype! Camping out to buy stuff IS all the fun you’ve seen on the news!
If you are currently on line outside of a store, awaiting Black Friday sales, you are an unpaid extra for retailers and the news organizations that sell advertising to those same retailers. Also, you are a jackass.
Vampire Mob: Confessions of a Lucky #Webseries... →
Vampire Mob: Confessions of a Lucky #Webseries Creator (Fundraising)
vampiremob:
Losing the $6,212 pledged by 140 people on Kickstarter to make season two last Friday, sucked. Plain & simple.
The cool things that happened, like hundreds of people tweeting about the show, including @Nerdist and @JoeMantegna and the rush of support and RT’s in the last 24 hours was amazing! I…
A Vampire Mob Halloween!
vampiremob:
Consulting producer, Kathryn Zaloga, @ReamyHall, @JohnColella and Shyla last night, all apparently possessed!
Kathryn getting some sword fighting lessons from John Colella, who will be on stage as Cyrano in December!
Fire!
Kathyrn and Reamy giving out candy, Shyla was inside the door behind them watching.
...
October 2010
13 posts
A #webseries translated into Klingon!
vampiremob:
Thanks to @CriMiBird & @Qurgh episode one is now available with Klingon subtitles. Please let all of your Klingon-fluent friends know!
The little #webseries that could in French &...
vampiremob:
Vampire Mob in French!
Vampire Mob in German!
Thanks to @wordofwyrd for our French translation and @amon_gwareth for our German translation.
If you make a #webseries, don't get scammed! →
vampiremob:
The #webseries gold rush is here and the scammers are coming out of the woodwork to find ways to take your money and make your showbiz dreams come “true”!
Don’t throw money at scammers, throw money at your show and do it smartly!
The new scam is the “producers rep” out there finding people…
Vampire Mob: My Free #webseries Tip on... →
vampiremob:
I am still amazed I got to work with this group of actors in season one:
John Colella, Reamy Hall, Marcia Wallace, Kirsten Vangsness, Chris Mulkey, Jim Roof, Andrea Cansler, Cris DAnnunzio and Elizabeth Beckwith.
One of the hard things to do when you’re making a web series, especially your own…
Vampire Mob: Are you closed-captioning your... →
vampiremob:
Can your show be enjoyed by someone who is hearing-impaired?
I’ve done closed-captioning for Vampire Mob and currently there’s one free way to do it, YouTube. There was a blog from Jamie Berke who contacted me asking why my show didn’t have closed-captioning for the hearing impaired….
WatchThe first four episodes of Vampire Mob are now closed-captioned for the hearing impaired!
Dear @IAWTV,
Thanks for inviting the #webseries community to be a part of the International Academy of Web Television with the new membership policy. Use of the word ‘community’ is a lot more appropriate with the new policy. Congrats.
I’m being told to join now if I want to be part of the solution, to build the web series industry, the community and some have seen my recent questioning of...
Dear TV Comedy Writers, Showrunners & Network... →
vampiremob:
Making fun of product placement while you’re doing product placement on your shows has been done enough times to come to this conclusion: It is no longer funny.
You may think it’s funny, but as you guys scramble to find new revenue sources to pay for your expensive shows, you apparently forgot…
Vampire Mob: My Free #webseries Tip on... →
vampiremob:
I always look at writing as orchestrated daydreaming, which is why I like to write - I like to daydream.
When I’m writing something someone else will shoot, like a feature, I never write any camera moves, both because I think it’s bad form and it kills a lot of white space. And people love white…
September 2010
6 posts
Vampire Mob: My Free #webseries Tip on... →
vampiremob:
When you have your script done - as in written, re-written, re-written based on notes, re-written based on a table read or two - DONE! Number your days.
Look at each episode in your season, let’s say you have six of them, and figure how many days in the story are in your script. Example, in our…
Vampire Mob: Camera + Boston Cop + Baton = Dented... →
vampiremob:
It was a student protest against apartheid in South Africa, circa 1985 and there was a march from Boston University over the Mass Ave bridge to MIT - maybe 100 students or so. I shot a lot of protests and political rallies but after shooting punk shows, like Black Flag performing live, they…
vampiremob:
In case you missed it, @JohnColella...
Vampire Mob: Vampire Mob - Season Two - Support... →
vampiremob:
“The writing is sharp and the jokes are not predictable. …. this well-done Web series will leave viewers wanting more.” - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“Don is played by John Colella, and could have stepped off the set of The Sopranos he’s that good. … this is one of the classiest web…
Watchvampiremob:
Jenny Holzer, one of my all-time favorite artists…
Vampire Mob: Confessions of a Lucky #Webseries... →
“There’s a lot to be said for making people laugh. Did you know that that’s all some people have? It isn’t much, but it’s better than nothing in this cockeyed caravan.” - John L. Sullivan in “Sullivan’s Travels”
Season one of Vampire Mob is almost over and even when all of the episodes…
August 2010
5 posts
For some reason I’m thinking about creative people I knew who are no longer around and that sucks: Marnie Cardozo, Dave Feinman, Charlie Shannon & Arthur Montmorency
An open letter to Jeff Zucker, CEO of NBC...
Dear Jeff Zucker:
I make TV and I hear you do, too, well not actually make it, but I guess you decide what gets made? That sounds like a fun job.
In an interview I readyou were asked about NBC shows remaining online for free and said, “I do not think that it is a foregone conclusion that content should be free on the Internet.”
I think that’s a great decision for NBC Universal and the products it...
Vampire Mob: Confessions of a Lucky #Webseries... →
What if all of this #webseries brouhaha was about creative freedom?
I know, but still, just for a minute, plug in your suspension of disbelief card and think: What if making a webseries was only about the freedom to create something within the constraints of a budget?
That doesn’t sound as much…
July 2010
1 post
Vampire Mob: Confessions of a Lucky #Webseries... →
When I read @Mathieas McNaughton’s article on @TheWebFiles covering the Vampire Mob Premiere, he referenced Marcia Wallace as a “comedy legend,” and he was right, she is. And I am damn lucky to have worked with her!
Like millions of other people, “The Bob Newhart Show” (below) was…
June 2010
6 posts
I miss you, stand up comedy
I’ve been a little busy with a web series, but I look forward to spending time with you in the future.
Vampire Mob: Confessions of a Lucky #Webseries... →
“Like a small town that got dropped on the entertainment industry,” is how I described the webseries community to someone remarking to me on the level of activity and the number of shows.
“Small town” because people don’t say hi to each other on the street in the big city. I am quickly learning,…
Vampire Mob: Confessions of a #Webseries Creator... →
You don’t know you’re handing a drink to a member of the mob until someone tells you.
I based a few things in “Vampire Mob” on the mafia in Boston in the eighties, when the leader of the Patriarca family got busted in a sting run by the FBI, leaving a scramble for power and feuds between…
Confessions of a #Webseries Creator
I was working as a private investigator when I came up with the idea for “Vampire Mob” during an investigation. Honest.
The day started with my “Guild of Calamitous Intent” shirt, then, due to cat hair, I changed into my Dr. Henry Killinger shirt, which I’m about to run the dog in, next on deck - the Monarch shirt.
WatchI posted the new trailer announcing the season one launch & LA premiere dates.
We’re also having an online preview premiere via password.
Check http://www.VampireMob.com for mo’ dope.
May 2010
13 posts
We are all famous to a few people.
Vampire Mob: Confessions of a Lucky #Webseries... →
I didn’t create a web series in hopes of getting an award, a TV deal or for a web site with money to discover my show. When it comes to web series, I’m familiar with the excitement of “What if?” and the disappointment of “Here’s why not.” The first time I worked on one was in 1999.
I’m staring…
Do you like Star Wars? Meet "Jedi Junkies." →
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Do you like Star Wars? Meet “Jedi Junkies.
A four hour deadline with an audience waiting,...
At 9AM this Sunday, I will show up at the Back on Broadway cafe in Santa Monica, along with four other writers, and each of us will write a play in four hours. Seems like a crazy idea? Yes, it is and it’s been happening monthly for over five years. The plays we write will be performed Sunday night, twice, at 7:30 and 9:00 at the Ruskin Group Theatre (http://www.RuskinGroupTheatre.com),...
Tomorrow night I’m seeing my pal @MindiAbair performing live at the Greek. I got a sneak preview of her CD, which comes out next week. This song is one of my favorites: http://www.ilike.com/artist/Mindi%20Abair/track/Be%20Beautiful
