by Sabrina Ford.

Warner Bros. will unveil a web show from Charlie’s Angels director McG that seeks to create a new genre the studio calls a “social series” by taking pictures, music and information from a viewer’s Facebook page and putting it in the video.

The series, Aim High, marks one more way in which Hollywood’s studios are trying to engage younger audiences on social media websites that have become competition for films, TV shows and other forms of entertainment.

Aim High, which will debut Oct. 18 and run for six episodes, stars Jackson Rathbone of Twilight fame as a high school student turned government operative named Nick Green who goes on weekly, top-secret adventures. While Green’s tale will feature action and Rathbone is a key draw, the real star is not the actor. It is you.

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Samantha Hatch, director of the webseries  Sands of Mexico, unearths us the lessons she learned while campaigning on IndieGoGo. Even though she didn’t reach her goal amount, she raised enough money to cover travel costs of filming her webseries on location.

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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 for YouTube, Francis Stokes (creator of God, Inc., a video series on YouTube that is modeled after the popular sitcom The Office) says, “I was really intrigued by the challenge of cramming as much content—humor, pathos, character development, etc.—into just a few minutes of time. It was tough, but I think it improved my writing. In the end, you should always be striving for that kind of quality.”

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The Ten Commandments of Filmmaking
How to Work (and Survive) in the
Film and Television Industry
by Peter D. Marshall

“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 Sitges Fantasy Film Festival, Europe’s biggest genre pic meet.

A day earlier, Lisbon-based BeActive’s Nuno Bernardo unveiled his latest Web series, gruesome chiller “Final Punishment,” at Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro Film Festival.

All are multiplatform skeins. All look set to turn a profit.”

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The Ten Commandments of Filmmaking
How to Work (and Survive) in the
Film and Television Industry
by Peter D. Marshall

“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.”

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The Ten Commandments of Filmmaking
How to Work (and Survive) in the
Film and Television Industry
by Peter D. Marshall

“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 the same question, “What do you wish you’d known before you started making your web series?”

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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?”

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