Constance Gibbs is a multidimensional creator of words, images, and social strategy.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but this a movie that quietly declares, in scene after scene, that a powerful woman is not someone to be loathed, feared or hidden from view. Would it have killed Disney to make sure the marketing proved worthy of the message? via ‘Frozen’ Rearview: Why Disney’s […]
Not the dialogue itself, but the pressure that dialogue creates between two characters who can’t get what they need from each other. This allows the audience to connect to the storyof the scene, and while we may lose some of the specific words within Sorkin’s complex verbal gymnastics, no one can escape the power of the […]
Of course it may seem like a no-brainer, but execs told those in attendance that their shows must reflect today’s current and increasingly multi-racial and multi-cultural world in order to attract those coveted younger viewers. Of course the success that Fox has enjoyed with their runaway hit Sleepy Hollow, which has already been renewed for […]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pFoBks5ly0&w=420&h=315] via Watch: Ava DuVernay’s Filmmaker Keynote Address At 2013 Film Independent Forum | Shadow and Act. I haven’t seen any of Ava DuVernay’s work yet, but I loved this keynote address and think it’s useful for anyone who is a media creator/artist. (She’s also directing an upcoming episode of Scandal, episode 308, so I’ll get […]
I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I […]
EXCLUSIVE: Nicole Beharie on Her New Show, ‘Sleepy Hollow,’ Being Black on Primetime TV | Essence.com. “ESSENCE: It’s so great to see a Black woman on prime time as the lead. Besides Kerry Washington, there’s you. Pressure? NB: Yes, I think you just put the pressure on. [Laughs] My shoulders just fell. One thing I […]
MG Media: How much pride do you take in the fact that your casts are much more racially diverse than most other shows? Shonda: I don’t take pride in it at all. I think it’s sad, and weird, and strange that it’s still a thing, nine years after we did “Grey’s,” that it’s still a thing. […]
…You search in vain for a glimpse of your face, your eyes, your existence. Instead you are met again and again with blank glass that shows a world without you in it. There are images enough, of other people, of faces and voices and peoples unlike your own. But never of you, never of your […]
From: Post-Water-Cooler TV: How to Make a TV Drama in the Twitter Age “The thing that still is really completely out of whack is pilot season. I mean having gone through that and having six weeks from a green light to shooting the pilot, competing with 100 other shows for talent, it’s crazy. It just seems completely […]
From: Post-Water-Cooler TV: How to Make a TV Drama in the Twitter Age “They all watch it more than once. They watch it, and they live-tweet, and then the fans will watch it again and be like: I noticed this other thing.” Yes, this is definitely true. People will watch your show more than once if they […]