Fictional Skies

For the last month or so I have been working diligently on a new TV project: an animated adventure series for children. Although this is the grand reveal, I'm afraid it'll be a no show as to specific details. You know the score. If it was Comic-Con then I would be happy to share all! Instead I will offer a little insight on the origin of the idea, its rebirth and end with some notes on the early development for this. Project Spacebound is not the actual title. Although, a rather cool one come to think of it. It's the codename for the show and a way to talk about it other than referring to it as the vague New Project 2012, New Project1, 011011100010011 or Animated Children's TV Series, or God forbid, to reveal its actual title before its time! From Short Animation to Series  The revival for this stems back to a chat with Danny Stack a few months back. The act of being able to share the story concept with him and have it received well was revitalising and encou...

I have recently found this great eHow video on script writing for children in both an animated and live-action context. It's an essential video and sound advice, if like me you're starting out writing your first major children's animated project or even if your live-action script has a child character or two in there, or a whole main cast of them. It's a useful insight on what's important when writing for children that can be easily forgotten when writing, as we tend to write and appeal to the child within us first. But the longer we ignore our audience the more we run the risk of damaging our script, characters' voices, credibility and will bore. The last thing we want to do is disrespect them and convey a lack of professionalism and talent to a script reader and/or producer. Step out of the story for a moment and watch the video to be reminded of the fundamentals on writing for children. How to Write Scripts for Children -- powered by eHow ...