Creating a web series is challenging at every step, from production to marketing, but perhaps the biggest hurdle is among the first: getting money. Kickstarter, a site for crowdsourcing arts funding, is increasingly become the go-to source for web series creators unable to secure grants, industry money or private funds to get production going. We Are With the Band, for example, used their Kickstarter funds to upgrade their camera and sound equipment. Gold used the site to finance their first season DVD. Kickstarter is simple. Creators develop a pitch on the site, using video, text or both. They set a fundraising goal and have 30 days to reach it. Users donate money – it’s not an investment – to the projects and if the project reaches its goal, creators get the money. For more information, click here. “We like for Kickstarter to be a tool,” co-founder Yancey Strickler said, noting how funds...
- 7/9/2010
- by Aymar Jean Christian
- Tubefilter.com
This year's Independent Television Festival announced its official selections today, with 22 selections in the Web Series category, 6 in the Web + Mobile category, and 24 in the Pilots category. For the first time ever, web series outnumber television pilot selections in the festival. Even amongst the TV pilots, many of them are actually re-packaged web series like Octane Pistols of Fury, Ogden: The Inappropriate Yoga Guy, Palisades Pool Party, and We Are With the Band. "For a festival originally slated as a television festival, this is a pretty interesting divergence," festival director Aj Tesler told us. Several of the web series selections you'll recognize are Streamy Awards nominated web series Anyone But Me, Gold, Odd Jobs, and The Temp Life, and other familiar web series The Fall of Kaden, The Super Man, Solo - The Series and A Good Knight's Quest. "Some familiar faces. Some new ones," commented Tesler; new ones to...
- 6/25/2010
- by Drew Baldwin
- Tubefilter.com
We Are With The Band premiered this past week on KoldCast TV. Reminiscent of the indie version of WB’s Echo Park rock drama Rockville, CA, it centers on Elle and Marci, two “professional hipsters” (Heleya de Barros and Vivian Kerr) trying to navigate the East La “scene” while modeling their lives off a 24/7 American Apparel ad. [We Are With the Band] ITV Fest, the Independent Television Festival is heading into its fifth year already and has started its spring fundraising push with a kickoff party and silent auction in Los Angeles slated for April 21. Added bonus: the first 50 people to register will get ITVFest gift bags. [ITVFest Fundraiser] Revision3’s new series Unboxing Porn sounds dirtier than it is. But to some technophiles there is no greater turn-on than some high-definition tech gear de-robing, otherwise known as unboxing. And what better to launch a new geek web series around than some gratuitous unboxing of Apple’s...
- 4/19/2010
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
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