This weeks’ seminar was strangely eye-opening; whenever I thought of a web-series my mind instantly thought of fairly average and straightforward series of short videos, and for some reason not factoring in any succession of videos uploaded to the internet, and forgetting of how many I actually watch. There’s an innate sense of freedom with web series; no strict rules on time, production value*, ratings or even restrictions of content due to a network constricted what can and cannot be shown. Thus, they can come in a myriad of forms and touch on countless topics in essentially whatever style they so choose. So today I thought I might share a favourite web series of mine, of which, whilst many disregard to be weird and fucked up for the sake of being fucked up, actually has a hidden meaning highly relevant to the topic of restriction and production of media over the last century. Whilst the deeper meaning is nice, the series is genuinely funny, being alluring in its odd styles.
I present, ‘Don’t Hug Me. I’m Scared’.

It’s a short series, consisting of only 6 episodes, so if anyone has the spare time, it’s worth the watch! (also every song will get stuck in your head for at least a week).

Sometimes it’s good to put your hand up for things you normally wouldn’t, it may allow you to gain more knowledge or experience or at least shed some light on a matter you previously weren’t too clear on… So that’s what I did! Sorta.
Following last weeks tutorial a group of us along with Jeremy took our class’s brief to the writing students to pitch our ideas* and guidelines as well as answer any questions they had, and what came up was quite surprising. Seeing how keen and inquisitive they were only made me more excited to begin work on their writing and storyboard and shoot it. It was also rather nice to see how many of them were keen on acting or least appearing in the works (something which would certainly help us; 1) saves us from having to find so many other people, and 2) who knows the script better? at least you’d hope they know it).

Okay, so first off this blog post is a little bit late, having already started uni a week ago and whatnot, but I plan to fix this broken schedule. (moving and such tend to get in the way, BUT I’M BACK!)
The first couple of classes of the studio got off to a cracking start. It felt both strange and nice to come into a class barely knowing anyone and getting ready for what was (is) to be a great semester, and what better way to get to know each other and immerse ourselves in the life of a producer than to tell other people what to do!? Creative Writing students, your scores are now in our hands.
But really, just sitting down and going through a heap of ideas and concepts of how we want to construct our coming videos was great, and I can’t wait to see what becomes of it.