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Happy Holidays!! Wishing all of you a great holiday and even better New Year!!

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Adventures In Digital Series Land - Chapter 116: Change in Plans

Adventures In Digital Series Land – Chapter 116: Change in Plans

Things are getting intense. In a good way! My radio segment *just* went live on AM radio to a pretty big audience! The show, Lele’s Week in Review, is a 90 second parody of entertainment news done by my character Lele. I write, produce and voice it. It’s A LOT of fun.  And a lot to do. I bang out/record a new episode every single week. Two radio stations have it: Rhythm 105.9 in Yuma, CA and now…

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Adventures In Digital Series Land - Chapter 115: Digital Is Where It's At!

Adventures In Digital Series Land – Chapter 115: Digital Is Where It’s At!

An intense couple of weeks.  Am in the final stretch of post for my series and hoping I’ll be done in a few months. This part is a bear.  Each episode has many pods that are strung together to make a narrative–approximately 35 per episode. To say it’s been challenging to manipulate them all is an understatement. Plus, I’m reanimating certain bits just to make them tighter and brighter. Meanwhile,…

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Adventures In Digital Series Land - Chapter 114: The Squiggle That Is Failure

Adventures In Digital Series Land – Chapter 114: The Squiggle That Is Failure

Confession #1: Sometimes (ok, a lot of the time) I wake up in the morning and feel like a failure. Why? Duh. Cause my career isn’t where I feel it should be. And, partly, cause I had a Quick! Easy! Fast! kinda-sorta success when I started out. And since then? Well, let’s just say I’m trying to catch up.  This is not about depression, btw. I’m not depressed. In fact, I’m a happy person and…

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Adventures In Digital Series Land - Chapter 112: The Stockroom (yes, I'm gushing)

Adventures In Digital Series Land – Chapter 112: The Stockroom (yes, I’m gushing)

(Victor, in the middle, with April Hernandez-Castillo–one of the stars of the film) Victor Cruz–no not the athlete–is a great actor/comedian I was lucky enough to meet about seven years ago.  Gil T, another great comedian who originally was part of the legendary comedy duo, The Most Brothers (HBO, Fox, opened internationally for some of the biggest names in the business) had worked on some shorts…

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https://soundcloud.com/chilltowntv-1/lele-60-second-week-in-review-5-kylie-jenner-nicki-minaj-michael-b-jordan

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https://soundcloud.com/chilltowntv-1/lele-60-second-week-in-review-4-patti-labelle-rick-james-imposter-viola-davis

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https://soundcloud.com/chilltowntv-1/lele-60-second-week-in-review-3-celebrity-apprentice-taylor-swift-jaden-smith

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https://soundcloud.com/chilltowntv-1/lele-60-second-week-in-review-2

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https://soundcloud.com/chilltowntv-1/leleweekinreview1-kanye-west-taylor-swift-rihanna

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Adventures In Digital Series Land - Chapter 102: Women & Hollywood--Big News

So really big news: The ACLU has asked the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate the systematic bias against women directors in Hollywood. They are saying it’s a violation of Title VII, which is part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which prevents employers from discriminating based on gender.

As Melissa Silverstein, a feminist, advocate for women in Hollywood and Artistic…

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Adventures In Digital Series Land - Chapter 101: Team Frederator!

So, the big news this week is: I signed with Channel Frederator Network.  I’m met Fred Seibert. He’s been at a number of NYC  animation and web events and we’ve had a chance to chat.  Been up to their offices (the old YouTube workshops were held there).  He authentically is really passionate about animation.  Which is a good thing. Before Frederator, he was at MTV and Hanna Barbera.

They reached…

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Adventures In Digital Series Land - Chapter 100: Setting Goals: Beat Sheets and Lip Syncing

So I’m deep in production on the new series. Last week I recorded and edited all the voiceovers. Actually did ’em twice.  First time around, something just wasn’t clicking. I raised the mike height, which gave me more room to physically act out while I was recording.  It made all the difference in the world.

This week I started lip-syncing. In case you don’t know what that is: it’s the process…

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Adventures In Digital Series Land - Chapter 99: The Levitation Trick

The past two weeks have been intense–writing, writing, writing and more writing. I’m a few days away from finally starting production and I. Am. PSYCHED! I completed 20 episodes of the new series, the trailer, plus an additional 30 episodes of a tiny mini-series I’m launching around the same time.  Not to mention working on a new 30 minute pilot/series and short. Now, I just have to animate them…

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Adventures In Digital Series Land - Chapter 98: Changes Plus Tips for TV Success

A few changes:

First, as you can see, I’ve changed the name of this blog from Adventures of a Web Series Newbie to Adventures in Digital Series Land.  Not only to reflect a new way to describe web series, but also because, let’s face it, I’m no longer a newbie. I’ve been doing this for two years.

Plus, since I’m designing the new website, I wanted this blog to reflect that change.  New times,…

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Adventures of a Web Series Newbie - Chapter 97: The Death of "Web Series"?

Short post this week cause I’m totally swamped prepping for production, which will officially start in a few weeks. Plus, doing research and outlining two new pilots for two new series.

This week, there was an article in Filmmaker Magazine about the term “Web Series” and how it, generally, has a negative connotation. Most people seem to equate it with people who are either emerging (which is…

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Adventures of a Web Series Newbie - Chapter 96: Build It And They Might Come/HBO Access Fail

Adventures of a Web Series Newbie - Chapter 96: Build It And They Might Come

This week there was a much talked about article in Deadline about the new WGA study that confirmed what most of us already know: That most tv writing jobs go to white guys in their 40’s.  And that women and minorities have “actually lost ground as compared to their white male counterparts.”

Great.

Yes, we need people out there advocating and changing things from within tv networks and shows. …