So who likes Post apocalyptic shows?  I for sure know I do.  But how come it's that none of them do very well?  Hmm?  I've thought this out, and researched it...and I've found that it comes down to one thing..."hope."
     I've been developing a narrative TV show, set in the post apocalypse.  In my research for it all, I've been looking at What works and what doesn't work.  And like I said, it all boils down to hope.
     Shows start to get old real fast when there is no hope.  The audience doesn't like seeing, week after week, death and desolation over and over again.  We, naturally, are a hopefully people.  We like happy endings.
    A shows like AMC's "The Walking Dead," is going to run into that problem.  Week after week, the characters fight off zombies or evil humans.  They've even established that there is an utter hopelessness , with everyone being infected.  This will eventually get old, and the audience will die out.
   On the other hand, a post apocalyptic show with way too much hope just comes off cheesey.  NBC's new show, "Revolution," is a post apocalyptic show with no apocalypse.  No mass terror or mass death.  All that happened is that electricity stopped working.  Not only that, but they established that someone in this world has the ability to bring electricity back; killing any hopeless feeling the show needed.
     Now, I know you're reading this going, "David, I thought hope was a good thing?"  And it is...but we've all heard the old adage, "too much of a good thing kills."  And this is evidently true.  A post apocalyptic show needs a perfect balance of hopelessness and desolation.  But at the same time, needs hope that it will eventually get better.
     Yes, this is more of a personal rant, because I truly love the whole post apocalyptic setting.  As mentioned before, I'm even developing a TV show I'm trying to pitch based on a few short films I shot. But back to point, what I'm trying to get across is quality.  If things are done correctly, and if they're thought out...you're going to have a great thing on your hands.

Hello All!

Hello Internet world, and welcome to my new Blog.  My main goal with this blog is to profile and seek out creativity, originality and new film news.  Which brings me to the main point of this introductory post!  Originality, originality in Hollywood is dead.  Now that was a bold statement!  But it's true!  What happened to all the new, original ideas!?  Lately it seems everything has either been a reboot, sequel or adaptations.  Slashfilm.com posted a great infographic, showing how in the past few years, the creativity in Hollywood has been waning.  In 2011 there were no original Hollywood movies!!! This is insane!!!  Vesna Sunrider talks about how the reason Hollywood has been so quick to reboot or adapt is because the development process is difficult.  This gets so frustrating for them that they come to the conclusion that it's "good enough."  What a travesty!!!  I have a theory that Hollywood goes through an evolution of it's own.  It grows and grows, making new, and original movies; for example, the time of Spielberg and Cameron.  However, it gets to the point where creativity dies out and the old must leave, to make room for the new.  Hopefully this process will happen soon, and at a critical time for new filmmakers such as myself!  For now, we'll have to just mind the remakes and reboots.  I encourage you though; watch the few originals that come out.  Support them, and we'll start seeing more and more of them!

-DAZ