What did you learn about story structure for webisodes while writing and filming?
Nicholas : Initially I considered Ozgirl as a feature length story structure and then I cut that up into 24 bits. The first few episodes were actually quite slow and nothing much happened. In the context of a single weekly release that was quite boring and the plot didn’t progress fast enough. What I soon learned was that the audience needed to see the same plot points being hit every week, just in a compressed amount of time. Basically you were charged, as a filmmaker, with the challenge of telling the same amount of story, just faster. Which is essentially what a short film is. You have to tell a story about a character, except it’s harder because it’s shorter. So, making short episodes… it’s not easier, because it’s not just about filming the scene and that’s what I initially started with. A lot of the initial episodes like Sadie goes shopping; it’s basically just one scene unrolling. We really quickly learned due to the responses that we got, and they’re brutal online. They’ll just
