“Producing the COAL 4=-part web series taught me that collaboration and innovative leadership go hand in hand.”
I always want to be in control, run the show, production, class, or event and with that comes a price of excluding collaborators. I don’t know if it’s arrogance, over confidence or what, but I do want to be in charge.
On COAL, I wrote the initial 4-part web-series, but I knew it was lacking a compelling story line and it wasn’t very good. My scene partner and brother in the series, Scott Douglas Wilson, came on board and he and I ended up rewriting the entire 4 episodes of the series.
We went scene by scene, line by line, changed, altered, and made the lines are real as we could for each character.
In the final episode, when the brothers wake up in a parking lot, their dad, Big Jim, is reading the deed from their Jennings estate.
Its early morning, their dad is in the truck staring at his two forty-year-old boys passed out in a parking lot. It’s a cool shot, it will start off the web-series, and will give the pre-text for the next 3 episodes that will be released.
COAL will get what it gets in share of views and attention, and I hope audiences like it.
But one thing I know is that it never would have been what it is now without Scott.
Chad J. Willett (MA, NSA, SAG-AFTRA) is the founder of Broadway2LA Acting Studio and a nationally recognized innovation and leadership speaker, TEDx presenter, and two-time author.
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