Dynamics of a Television Show — Part I

An inter­est­ing title for a blog entry, but trust me when I tell you this has been an expe­ri­ence. I am not sure what got me hooked on the idea, but the more research I do on this con­cept, the more I know I am on to “some­thing”. I actu­ally started writ­ing myself a “busi­ness plan” — but there were so many unknowns that it evolved from a busi­ness plan into a doc­u­ment that scoped out a lot of the core ideas behind the concept.

While I am for­tu­nate that my brain gen­er­ates LOTS of ideas, this is a bless­ing and a curse at the same time. As I develop the first “script”, I find that I am encoun­ter­ing many challenges:

1. I am try­ing to fig­ure out a con­sis­tent approach so that I can apply it to other episodes
2. I am sift­ing through a lot of my old ideas — enhanc­ing some, dis­card­ing others
3. Try­ing to make sure that I keep the con­tent at the cor­rect “audi­ence level”

It’s been an inter­est­ing chal­lenge, and it’s allow­ing me to lever­age a lot of skills that I have evolved over the years. I am try­ing to set a goal of get­ting a rough draft com­pleted by the end of this week — if for no other rea­son than so I can tape what I have and review it to see if it makes sense.

Also, a related prob­lem is how to do this “cost effec­tively” (read cheap). I have had some dis­cus­sions with peo­ple that said the “tra­di­tional” way of doing this is to pony up some money and have it pro­fes­sion­ally done. With so many venue’s avail­able (Hulu, Youtube, etc), I am tempted to try this as a “roll your own” and then see what happens

Also, I am not sure how sophis­ti­cated I can get with each episode. I have a num­ber of friends that have offered to help me — and for­tu­nately each brings a very unique set of skills that will help me in this effort. If noth­ing else, we are going to learn a great deal from each other (and trust me, I have learned tons already). I plan on shar­ing as many of my expe­ri­ences as pos­si­ble (and hope­fully get input from whomever might be read­ing this).

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