Constance Gibbs is a multidimensional creator of words, images, and social strategy.
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 […]
From: Post-Water-Cooler TV: How to Make a TV Drama in the Twitter Age “A show is much more like jazz than it is a symphony. It’s call and response, responding to what’s happening in front of you.” “You can have a plan, but you have to be open and flexible to making that plan better if an […]
From: Post-Water-Cooler TV: How to Make a TV Drama in the Twitter Age “Q: But, as he says, the writers will often put characters in a jam with no idea of how to get out of it. How close to his reality is yours?” I love how Carlton Cuse (Co-exec on Lost) didn’t weigh in [in this […]
Link: Post-Water-Cooler TV: How to Make a TV Drama in the Twitter Age “The water cooler moment, what is that really? At its core, it’s people having a reason to have a conversation about a shared experience, but there’s a lot of ways to have a shared experience. That can be live-tweeting. That can be people that […]
Tonight’s Scandal was a little lot crazy. And reading TV Line’s post episode Q&A (don’t even look at the URL if you haven’t seen the episode. Seriously.) with creator Shonda Rhimes got me thinking about season pace. So tonight’s episode of Scandal was episode 13, which tends to be a biggie since a lot of […]
Watching the latest episode of Scandal, I noticed that Shonda Rhimes has a pattern placing her romantic leads (her usually adulterous romantic leads) in the world’s slowest moving elevator and cranking up the sexual tension. Nothing wrong with that, but it’s something in my “studies” that I’ve noticed about her. I’ll ramble on a bit […]