A Beginning...

Hi everyone!

My name is Conan McKegg and I'm the creator/writer/producer of Urban Numina - a new comedy drama web series that you will see develop from conception through to filming via this blog.

I have created a previous webseries - The Winding City - which is a comedic urban fantasy about a group of friends who find out that there is more to the city of Wellington than they initially realised. Since the completion of The Winding City, I learned a lot about the process behind making a series and many of the pitfalls that can face a creative type seeking to make such a show. Especially with webseries taking off as a trend, every man and his dog is wanting to make a break into this new approach to old media.

I've been wracking my brain for a few years to come up with a great webseries concept to follow up on while The Winding City has been struggling through its various hurdles. The show had to meet certain criteria:

• It had to be quick to make.
• It needed to have a low budget ethos.
• It needed to have a simple core idea.
• It needed to be interesting and a little different from everything else out there.

These are actually tough criteria to meet. There is a popular theory in film-making that any project fits on a triangle. At each point of the triangle you have Low Cost, Quality and Speed. (These have different names according to who you talk to...)

You can usually have only two points of the triangle with any project. So a project can have a low cost and be made quickly, but it will lack in quality. Or it can have Quality and be made quickly, but cost a lot of money. Or it can be low cost, good quality but take a lot of time to make.

However, in the indie film making world, you can cheat a little with quality and cost if you can find the right volunteers eager to put their all into the project and if you plan properly, you can get a tight turn around.

To be realistic, though, you will not end up with The LXD or The Guild without having to front up some cash at some point. But Urban Numina is more about the first steps rather than the headier heights of web show film-making. At least at this point.

So check out the Welcome to Urban Numina page, and I'll soon be posting the core concept of the series up as we begin the journey towards seeing this series become a completed project.

Be back soon!

Conan