Paddy Macrae: From script to screen – making a TV show
Paddy will discuss his experiences of making Netflix drama series Irreverent as Creator and Executive Producer. The process of taking an original idea from its beginnings, through to shooting and releasing it as an international TV series. The process of building the story over a whole season with a writer’s room, and selling it to network buyers. Getting the show financed, finding locations to suit the story, and pulling a crew together that would be able to get it filmed.
Casting the actors, and the challenges of shooting during COVID and in extreme heat and humidity both on location on the Great Barrier Reef, and down in the studio on built sets on the Gold Coast. The challenges and victories of filming day after day, month after month, editing the whole thing together and then sending it out into the world. He is very happy to discuss anything that might be of interest, and answer any questions about TV shows, writing, or the deadly wildlife of Far North Queensland!
Paddy Macrae has held multiple roles in scripted development at Matchbox Pictures (The Slap, Clickbait, Stateless) since 2015 and has worked across projects including Barracuda, Glitch, Nowhere Boys, Seven Types of Ambiguity and all three seasons of Wanted for Channel Seven and Netflix. Paddy holds a BA of Film and TV from Swinburne and an MA in Screenwriting from the Victorian College of the Arts.
He most recently released his first original series, 10 x 1 hour drama Irreverent, for Netflix and NBC Peacock as Executive Producer, writer and creator.