The easiest way to plug your show is to leave a comment so everyone can see your link - and in the meantime, here are some of the messages from web series creators this month...
RENT A FRIEND is a comedy drama set in Kilkenny. Dave and Der are in their early 20s, out of college and out of work, forced to live at home. With few opportunities they decide to sell the only asset they have - their friendship. Unfortunately as far as friendship goes these two are offering the worst deal on the market.
Hello I’m Sanderson Jones, and this is the first step in my mission to personally sell all the tickets to a massive gig in October. The idea started at the Edinburgh Fringe festival last year, when I sold tickets to my own stand up show on the street. Having once been a door-to-door salesman in the South of France (considerably less like a porn film than you’d think), chatting to festival goers enjoying themselves in the sun was a cinch and, even better, was playing to a crowd of folk I’d met before.
Doing gigs where I’d personally begged/persuaded the vast majority of the audience to come, crossed some weird boundary of intimacy (not weird like that). Clearly mystical juju takes place when the balance of power is altered, like a million souls crying out at once. As the festival continued a few thoughts coalesced into this idea (creativity in action!): if I could sell that many tickets to 25 shows, wouldn’t it be even more ridiculous to sell all the tickets to one big show?
This is me explaining ComedySale.Com. It's part-website, part-mission as I try to personally sell all 500 tickets to a one off stand up show (performed by me) at the Union Chapel. I have to personally sell all the tickets: no internet sales, no venue sales, no phone sales.
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Came across this great piece of radio - a documentary that covers pretty much the complete history of social media by Rory Cellan Jones - and it's available for download as a podcast here:
YouTube is to invest €500,000 (£441,000) in a scheme to support UK digital talent.
The YouTube NextUp fund will allow up to 25 people to win a €20,000 grant to develop their content on the video-sharing website, as well as a place at a "creator camp" that will give training in production techniques.
To apply, creators must be YouTube partners – content producers who earn revenue through their accounts. YouTube said they could include singers, dancers, actors, producers, musicians or makeup artists who create their own video content.
Hector Grimes is gonna shoot the greatest action film Drogheda has ever seen, one way or another.
DIRECTOR HECTOR follows wannabe movie director Hector Grimes’ chaotic attempts at making an action film in Drogheda town.
Using his mates as a motley cast and crew for his epic ACTION TRACTION and bolstered by extreme delusions of grandeur, what could possibly go wrong for the clamper turned director? If you want to know how NOT to make a film, this is it…
DIRECTOR HECTOR - a mockumentary following the chaotic attempts of Hector Grimes to make an amateur action film called "Action Traction" in Drogheda, Louth, Ireland. Using his own mates (such as Ug Murphy and Chopper Brady) as a motley cast and crew, what could possibly go wrong...?
So we're down to 3 remaining shows fighting it out to make it into the final two. Voting opened this morning and the new episodes are online. So much is at stake for the program makers, they know now that the hard bit isn't making the episodes (though it is hard and I should know... I've seen the pics and read the production blogs). The hard work is drumming up interest in their work and getting people to watch it, like it and vote for it.
For writers & producers in the UK in a couple of weeks...
2 Heads Are Better Than 1: Sam Bain & Jesse Armstrong
Gala showing of FOUR LIONS
Armando Iannucci
William Ivory
BBC Comedy Commissioning Editor Cheryl Taylor
Rob Brydon
Dave Spikey...
A decade ago, the UK was a net importer of television programmes. Now we're one of the most powerful players on the international television stage, exporting more than half the world's TV "formats".
Consumers are changing the way in which they watch television
But a transformation in the way viewers consume television is turning the industry's business model on its head and threatening the long-term future of this, one of the UK's most significant creative industries.
'Profound' changes
All the UK's major broadcasters have set up websites to allow viewers to watch their programmes via the computer, while social networking sites such as Bebo are carrying television content and even originating their own shows.
As the lines between television, the internet and social networking sites blur, this presents exciting but controversial new opportunities to bring advertising revenue into programmes.
Experts predict a future in which broadcasters gather substantial amounts of information about viewers and sell this data to advertisers who target their messages much more precisely than at present.
Restructuring at AOL last year hit its social networking site, Bebo, with staff being lost and its Bebo Originals initiative axed. So what's next for original online youth content?
Bebo pioneered the model for online youth drama with ground-breaking content such as KateModern, Sofia's Diary, The Secret World of Sam King and The Gap Year. The demise of its web production arm, Bebo Originals, in November will make it tougher for indies in this sector to survive, according to Nuno Bernardo (left), the man behind Sofia's Diary.
"It makes what was already hard even harder. Bebo was one of the few outlets that commissioned content," says Bernardo, adding that apart from the BBC and new Virgin Media channel Liv, few other UK portals offer scope for online content commissions.
Zad Rogers, formerly creative director at RDF Digital and founder of Atomized Entertainment... worked with Bebo on series including the site's community review show B-Box... "Bebo Originals was absolutely a catalyst for a whole new way of creating content. What they created in a short period of time, from KateModern (above) to B-Box, was really impressive and it falls to some of the broadcasters to pick up that mantle and start working with brands to commission original content," he says.
Another entry up on YouTube for Irish broadcaster web series competition RTÉ STORYLAND
- which is great news, - this is how you build an audience from scratch.
Another entry up on YouTube for Irish broadcaster web series competition RTÉ STORYLAND
- which is great news, - this is how you build an audience from scratch.
More from RTÉ STORYLAND 2010... It's like St. Patrick himself is sat on my blog...
Another entry up on YouTube for Irish broadcaster web series competition RTÉ STORYLAND
- which is great news, - this is how you build an audience from scratch.
The stand-up comedy scene is thriving in Ireland. But most comedians are not. PUNCHLINE is a drama revolving around the lives of three comedians in varying states of poverty, excess and general self-hate. Comedy is no laughing matter.
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PUNCHLINE is one of two submissions we have made for RTE STORYLAND 2 --- a six episode web-only venture --- due for exclusive broadcast on RTE.ie from January 2010 - June 2010.
Another entry up on YouTube for Irish broadcaster web series competition RTÉ STORYLAND
- which is great news, - this is how you build an audience from scratch.
A submission from Mercuryboy Inc for RTE's Storyland 2010. It's a satirical look at the ad industry through the eyes of a junior copywriter.
Shane and Joel have been in the industry 11 months and are still desperately trying to make a name for themselves before their first year review. Shane, the copywriter and main character, is neurotic and self-loathing and hates his team mate Joel. The show will monitor Shanes consistent self-sabotage and crumbling personal life.
Okay, there are going to be a few more of these today...
This one's been on StoryGas before - but all the episodes suddenly disappeared from YouTube... Maybe being entered for Irish broadcaster RTÉ STORYLAND 2 is the reason why...
More entries cropping up on YouTube for Irish broadcaster web series competition RTÉ STORYLAND
- which is great news, - this is how you build an audience from scratch.
This is our 30 second pitch for RTE's Storyland 2 competition. The series will follow Jack, a recent communications graduate, in his new job as a door-to-door salesman. If we get through, you can expect Jack to have various run-ins with fellow employees and potential customers alike. You can also expect to meet other characters like Conor, the self proclaimed success story, Páidí, the charmer and master salesman and Angry Mike.
...web drama, online comedy, online narrative, interactive drama, internet television series, multi-platform storytelling, webseries, web series, web tv, webisodes, transmedia, multiplatform or interactive narrative... whatever you call it, we're watching.
The links below help sort what you're looking for.
HAVE A LOOK THROUGH THE COMPLETE LISTS OF WEB SERIES BELOW!
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