I finally got an iPod at Christmas, and it’s been the massive distraction I always suspected it would be. I used to obsessively collect music in the early half of the CD era. My tastes were eclectic- classical, jazz, alternative rock, electronica, international music. The usual music geek stuff. I kept [...]
Adapted from a post on the message boards at the fantastic screenwriting site Wordplayer. Read everything everywhere on that site if you want a deep understanding of how to write a screenplay.
So with my web sketch comedy group Monkey With A Shotgun, I’ve got an actual revenue-generating video series over on Babelgum.
Babelgum is a [...]
Over on his blog today, Kent Nichols of Ask A Ninja asks the all important question- “Is Online Video Dead?”
It’s true that the real successes of web video series can be counted on one hand. But then we’re still very early on in the game. The things people are trying now are [...]
One offshoot of SoCal Film Group is Monkey With A Shotgun, a group formed for the purpose of making sketch comedy shorts for internet distribution. The name isn’t just a moniker for the group, it’s also a sort of operating philosophy. Make a lot of different stuff fast and hope to hit some [...]
Looking at their domain name’s site, it’s hard to tell if this project is going to launch with this name or not.
But the blog Divided Hollywood has some more information on the workings of the project. It’s apparently intended to be a clearinghouse for WGA member web video projects, presumably including some [...]
I’m hoping that either a) the name is misreported or b) they have
secured the name from the person that’s had it since 2005.
“Starting in January, the WGA will commence STRIKETV.com, where clips
of video material will be put up and advertiser support sought.”
And yeah, I was checking because well…I always check.
Some people don’t,
Looks like NewTeeVee is also asking questions about Quarterlife’s performance.
It’s worth nothing the reported total of 2,000,000 views is still considerably more than you can track on the main video sites, at least for the episodes. Unless QL is counting total views for all the videos, including the little interstitial-like things and then dividing [...]
So, Quarterlife.
Not doing as well as it was hyped to do, but hard to call it a failure since web success may never have been the true plan.
Looking over the history of how the got to where it is, it seems reasonable to assume that the net launch of the episodes was never intended [...]
So here’s a funny video from my friends at SoCal Film Group- a comedy about the old days when you’d go in a store and rent “videos”. My memories of doing such are vague in this time of NetFlix and the coming age of digital distribution, but at least they aren’t driving those whacky [...]
You can’t sell a feature film on the internet. It’s both too much and not enough. It costs too much to produce a feature in relation to what you’ll get back from internet-only sales. But a single feature isn’t not enough to build a regular audience- people will visit and [...]
