We Recorded a TV Pilot Yesterday

As Jason has already written, we recorded a pilot for a political TV show. Proposals have been sent off to ABC and SBS, Foxtel needs to be contacted as well. It also needs to be edited down so that it can be published as a show, as well as the segments bit-torrented through south sea republic. So either way; it will be published.

We had as panellists; myself, scrymarch, Jason Soon of Catallaxy and Guy Beres of wsacaucus.org. We had a lot of fun doing it. All the camera tape is downloaded onto a harddrive - it needs to be edited up and published now.

We are pursuing this as we believe we are not getting the media we deserve. This is probably why a lot of us write on blogs, websites, and other internet sites which publish the written word. Bloggers contain many of the political specialists in the wider citizenry, so it is a natural path for bloggers to explore other media forms on the subject of politics. This is what we were doing yesterday when we chatted on subjects in front of the camera.

The final product should be published soon. As Jason said, watch this space ...

cam

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Guy: It was good fun: Good to meet a few more bloggers in person and quite literally just talk about stuff. The recording stuff was a bonus.

Good luck with it - I have a feeling that you have quite a bit of work in front of you!
cam: You are right on all counts!: Especially the work infront of me; cutting and splicing stuff together is hard ..... I am sure I will get better at it with repetition.
cam: Turned down by the ABC already: From an email;

Thank you for inviting us to the screening of your pilot program. Hope it went well!

Unfortunately the ABC is not currently commissioning the type of show you describe so I\'m passing on your proposal.

Thank you for considering the ABC with the project. We wish you the best of luck with it elsewhere.

cam
Guy: Ah well...:
cam: You never know with SBS or some other network: Fortunately we have an ace up our sleeve in the internet and are not dependent upon the mass media for the distribution!

cam

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