A film is a story, told on 24 frames per second.
I feel really fortunate to have been trusted to write films, trailers, and a 17-episode TV series for the Finnish National Broadcasting Company — while also studying the craft of audiovisual storytelling down to its nuts and bolts.
When I started working in Finnish Broadcasting Company, our unit was in the same building where the actual national broadcasting happened.
Some of our tech was wired straight into the stream. For the first year, I had recurring nightmares that I’d somehow cut off the national broadcast.
(I didn’t. As far as I know.)
As part of a core team, I was responsible for TV1’s stakeholder communications at FBC — while also writing and concepting dozens of trailers across all television channels. We did the big launches and stuff. During that, I wrote a 17-episode television series for FBC alongside.
Out of respect for copyright, I can only share one of the films here.
I also been disturbingly fascinated by the architecture of good audiovisual storytelling. Sitcom is one of the most brutally difficult forms of it — so in my BA thesis in scriptwriting, I broke down one episode of Friends to bolts and nuts, through.