Film Directing and Film Making Tips for the Independent Filmmaker

This article was written for Churmura.com “Any successful video series for YouTube, particularly those produced by low-budget (or nobudget) independent filmmakers, requires a healthy dose of creativity, as well as ingenuity to make the most out of a situation. When asked about the creative process, including how to come up with script and story ideas [...]

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“For years now, the Internet has posed producers a seemingly impossible-to-answer question: How to monetize Web content. This month, European producers showcased solutions — at film festivals. On Oct. 2, Barcelona shingles Kotoc and Edda Design presented toon/Web series “The Extras” and “Sweesters,” respectively, at a vidgame/multiplatform confab organized by Catalan pubcaster TV3 during the [...]

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“Online video ventures haven’t fared particularly well in recent years. Eager to replicate the success of “Saturday Night Live’s” digital shorts or YouTube’s quirky user-generated fair, a number of businesses — including NBC’s DotComedy, Turner’s SuperDeluxe and ABC-Disney Television’s Stage 9 Digital — have gone under due to a lack of advertising dollars.” Read this [...]

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“I’ve been wanting to write a series of how-to tips based on our experience of making, B.J. Fletcher: Private Eye, so we started reminiscing about what we wish we’d known before we’d started making our website. Having had the pleasure of connecting with many other web series producers online, I was curious, and asked them [...]

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“When web series first started coming up, “super-syndication” was a big buzzword. Since video hosting sites were free, the idea was that creators should take a shotgun approach and blast their content out to every site possible. But is that still the smartest strategy?” Read this article from New Teevee. ———- Sign up now for [...]

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