Who's Going To Fund Your Web Series? | SXSW 2015 Event Schedule
If you’ll be at SXSW this year – and you’re not totally overwhelmed by a meat coma from all the barbecue - then come check out my panel at 12:30pm on Tuesday.
LA Times: Hollywood's creative class cheers FCC passage of net neutrality rules
“The celebration this week has been particularly loud among the next generation of content producers. They have turned to the Internet to reach a large and growing audience. “This battle has been such a long slog,”; said Jay Bushman, who created [edit: um, no] the show “The Lizzie Bennet Diaries” on YouTube. “I don’t expect Thursday to be the end of it, by any means. But it’s certainly better than the alternative,” he said. Bushman said he turned to the Internet several years ago because it was less restrictive than dealing with the entrenched networks. “I didn’t need anybody’s permission,” he said. “You can make stuff, put it online and go directly to an audience.‘”
The LA Times asked me for some comments about the net neutrality ruling. I’ve got a sinus infection, so I was a bit loopy when I spoke to them – hopefully I made a modicum of sense.
As flattering as that is, I wish they’d properly credited me as Transmedia Producer on Lizzie Bennet Diaries, and not the creator. I’ve emailed them about a correction.
Santa Monica Reads: Behind the Scenes of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
Here’s some more info on the Lizzie Bennet Diaries talk I’m doing with Kate Rorick next Saturday at the Santa Monica Public Library. Hope to see each and every one of you there.
Interview: Hollyweb
Interview with French outlet Hollyweb about The Lizzie Bennet Diaries.
Vote for my panels in the SXSW 2015 Panel Picker
I’ve been invited to participate in two panels at next year’s SXSW festival. Please vote for one or both of them, so I can go eat barbecue. :)
What does the “big bang” of fandom look like? How do people go from liking a new piece of content to becoming a community that blogs about it, creates art and fan fiction, conventions, even a movement?
In this panel, we’re going to find out the answer by conducting our own grand social experiment to generate a fandom for a piece of original content and watch as it unfolds. Everyone in the room and online will be invited to participate in forming and defining a community that illustrates all that a fandom can do, which we’ll check in with in-between panel discussion.
Panelists will tell us the story of a franchise unfolding and provide content for fans to react to – imagining a world that exists as a comic, TV show/webseries, and film series, with a variety of creators as well as a “voice of the studio” for our imaginary production. Our Fanthropologist moderator will live-orchestrate the viewing of interesting fan responses and content during the panel.
Who’s Going to Fund My Webseries?
The modern webseries has become a form for emerging and veteran creators alike to tell edgy & innovative stories, often in a deeply artistic manner, exploring controversial or socially urgent subject matter. These creators are reaching wider audiences than ever, building community, and creating proof of concept for bigger projects, like TV series & feature films. So what is the recipe for a successful webseries, and more importantly, who can help you get yours off the ground? Thankfully, with new opportunities for funding, development, production and distribution than ever before, the answers are numerous. On this panel, meet the industry leaders developing, funding, and supporting independent webseries in new ways, paving the way for creators of bold new episodic content online. We’ll discuss what they look for, how their programs work, and talk with veteran creators about their development strategy, and what are the opportunities for webseries in today’s digital landscape.
Jane Austen Society of North America, Southwest Chapter Fall Meeting, Sept 20, 2014
Kate Rorick and I will be talking to the JASNA-SW in Glendale on September 20th.
Speaking Event: San Diego Comic-Con Panel
I’ll be speaking at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con on the panel How Fan-Made Content Is Good for Audiences, Filmmakers, and Hollywood
Saturday, July 26 at 8:30pm in Room 24ABC