From podcasts to web series – how to make it yourself!

We all know that getting a project off the ground can be a tough gig – but going through the funding bodies isn’t the only way to get your stories told.  With the recent trend in narrative podcasts being snapped up as TV shows, and independent production cheaper than ever, there are plenty of ways to showcase your skills and get your work out there. So if you’ve got a great script or a killer idea you’re itching to make  – maybe it’s time to do it yourself! 

Whether your aim is to pursue your own projects, or expand your skill set, this event will deep-dive into two great case studies that will examine the pros and cons of self-produced work, and how to know if it’s right for your project.

Join comedian, writer, and games designer Ben McKenzie as we discuss Night Terrace, a time-travel audio comedy series co-written in Melbourne and snapped up by the BBC; and the team from the honest, funny and surreal web-series Feedback (Dylan Murphy, Michelle Melky, and Tom Henry Jones) who will be digging into  their adventures in guerrilla story-telling. 

When: Tuesday 8 October – 6.45pm for a 7pm start.

Where: Upstairs at the Golden Gate Hotel, 238 Clarendon Street, South Melbourne.

Cost: $5 members and students / $10 non-members 

PANELLISTS:

Ben McKenzie

Co-creator and co-writer of Night Terrace

Ben has been writing for performance for more than fifteen years. His work includes hour-long solo comedy shows, short dark comedy A Record or an OBE, sketches for The Anarchist Guild Social Committee and Channel 31’s Planet Nerd and has recently started writing factual programmes for ClickView. He is also co-creator and co-writer of the time travel audio comedy series Night Terrace under head writer John Richards, creator of the ABC sit-com Outland.

Dylan Murphy, Tom Henry Jones, and Michelle Melky 

The writing / performing / directing / producing team - Feedback

Feedback is a 5 episode web series that explores the life of young struggling creatives through a surreal, modestly magical lens. A testament to what can be achieved on a shoe string budget, Feedback was made with the support of the Australian Cultural Fund and the talent of a large community of emerging creatives in Melbourne.

After studying Creative Writing together at RMIT, Dylan and Tom formed Feedback’s writing team better known as That’s Content. Along with Michelle, an emerging producer and rising star, they produced Feedback under the Best Fort Productions banner. Along with Michelle Melky and Manou Staedel-Arnould, emerging producers and rising stars, they produced Feedback under the Best Fort Productions banner.