A pilot being made doesn’t necessarily mean that is perfect. The best thing about this is that you can learn more about how to do something by looking critically at examples that don’t work as well, than the ones that appear flawless.
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Spinoffs must be easy to create a pilot for, right? A lot of the world is already established and at least one of the main characters has probably had years of development thanks to whichever show they spun off from. On the surface, these sound like positives, like they give the series a head start over all the original shows that have to create these elements from scratch. Well, it’s not that simple.
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What happens when a TV show is going over budget, but still has more of its season left? Or, conversely, what if the show knows it wants to put more money into a later episode and is looking for ways to save up ahead of time? Usually either of these could mean trying to come up with an episode that sticks primarily to pre-existing sets (preferably only a single one), and uses few characters or extras who are not already paid as series regulars.
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Cambly, the musician behind the awesome theme song for the Unsupervised Nerds Podcast, is working toward his first full length album.
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It’s the return of the hour long shows, this time with The Magicians. Specifically looking at how this pilot works in terms of being the start of a serialized show, whereas most everything else I have looked at so far have been either episodic or serial-episodic.
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By separating characters into different groups, each with its own main character to follow, it creates the ability to give more time to the minor characters, as well as attention to each of the five Infinity Stones that Thanos has yet to gather. But this also creates its own issue. It isn’t enough to just separate into groups; the stories need to be unified or else the whole movie can feel like just a jumble of disparate elements.
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In order to look at how Avengers: Infinity War pulls off this insane task, I’m going to break it into two parts. This first part will be about efficiency of time. I’m going to break down the opening scene of the movie in order to look at just how much is done in a short period.
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has pretty much been a fascination of mine ever since Iron Man came out back in 2008.
Somehow, this whole thing started at pretty much the perfect time for me personally.
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Coming back for another pilot, this time with My Hero Academia. That’s right. Switching things up so much that an anime is taking centre stage.
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I’ve been playing Minecraft off and on for something like seven or eight years at this point. I’ve probably sunk more hours into it than any other game (a number I hope to never be told…). And so, when I started writing about video games on Unsupervised Nerds, this was one that came to my mind fairly early on.
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When the world gets too crazy, when life gets too rough, sometimes it can be nice to take a step back and escape into fiction for a short time. One way I like to do this is with a marathon of particularly fun episodes of shows I love. These aren’t necessarily the best episodes of the series, but they are ones that tend to make me happy.
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Here is a short story I wrote a few years ago. It was an experiment where I made myself write in different genres. It moves from Arthurian fantasy, to scifi, to high fantasy, to romance. I enjoyed writing it, and I hope you enjoy reading.
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Unsupervised Nerds is proud to present its newest podcast: The Small Things. This will be a show hosted by myself and my good friend Allison, where we rewatch every episode of How I Met Your Mother and The Office, recapping them and looking for ways the two shows can be compared. The two of us love these shows and are excited to talk about them.
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How I Met Your Mother is a sitcom that feels like it aims for both. Though it is episodic to an extent, it tells the audience right away that there is an ending to this. Even in the title alone, the series calls its shot about a major plot point for the finale.
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I recently started playing Persona 5 (a few years late, sure, but better than never). It’s a dungeon crawler JRPG. Even with the shallowest understanding of what is going in this game, it is hard to ignore how often psychological terms are thrown about. I quickly learned that it wasn’t just psychology in general being referenced, but more specifically the works of Carl Jung. I was curious how deep it all goes and needed to find at least a baseline understanding of what the game was referencing.
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The Sexy Brutale is a top-down style puzzle game with an interesting premise: the whole game essentially boils down to replaying the same ten-minute period over and over again in order to save nine guests from being murdered.
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Fear is a part of every life. I can’t speak for how anyone but myself has lived, but for me fear has been a very invasive and ever present force around me. It has taken many forms, some of which I have discovered are probably social anxiety. On it’s own, fear isn’t necessarily the worst thing in the world, but there have been times which it has paralyzed me. When fear reaches a point that it stops me from doing things I should be doing, then it becomes a real problem.
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As mentioned in my first Feature Writing Journal, I decided to take a look at Definitely, Maybe (2008), written and directed by Adam Brooks.
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Here comes another Structuring the Pilot, this time taking a look at The Office (US).
I wanted to breakdown a sitcom, because of how different they are from an hour-long drama. They have half the amount of time to tell a story and focus more on finding the humor in situations (shocking, giving the genre name) than being story driven.
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This blog is really becoming a weird hybrid of looking into nerdy storytelling and personal posts. Not sure how well it is working out, but it’s how I’m letting it roll for now. Warning in advance, this is going to be more of the type that is all about me.
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