As you may know, I have produced 3 full webseries, 2 short films and 2 webseries pilots. As you may not know, I’m not a millionaire. So, how can I do this without investors or outside money? I produce on a small scale. What does that mean, exactly? It doesn’t mean we tell small stories, it means we tell the stories we want to tell, but then narrow the perspective to fit the available budget. It also means we need to get creative with how we use the locations available to us. You can tell a large story from a…
Author: Tanya Ihnen
Tanya Ihnen
Tanya is an actor, director and sometimes writer, but mostly all-around new-media type person. By day, Tanya is an office worker extraordinaire, by night she is a Webseries producer who knows exactly how much food to order for a shoot. Because of both of these jobs, she's well-versed in email writing and supply ordering. Born and raised in Washington State, she still loves apples and tractors.
“We should work together on something” can be one of the scariest sentences ever heard in the entertainment industry. Especially if you have had the experiences most of us have had. As an Actor/Webseries Producer, I know first hand that this little platitude usually leads to a project that falls apart or, after hours and hours of homework on one side, never actually gets started at all. And, more often than not, it ends with hurt feelings. But that doesn’t have to be the case! My most recent production is two companion shows, The Ladies & The Gents, in which…