Indie web series star, writer, director, producer, and and all around super-creator Travis Richie does it again:
Category: Web Series
Leesa Dean Tells Us “How Tennis Saved My Pitch Meeting”
Adventures in Digital Series Land – Chapter 106
by Leesa Dean
I am a tennis fanatic. Love to watch matches, love to play. Did I mention I kinda suck at it? Ok, maybe not suck, but…I’m inexperienced. Been playing for about five or six years (just working on my strokes) but only started playing games last year. And found out the hard way that playing games is dramatically different than just hitting a ball around. Aside from strategy and learning different shots that are game-specific, there’s the pressure. And it is insane. You’re dealing with ego (mostly your own: OMG, am I gonna fail?), stage-fright (OMG, everyone’s gonna see me fail!!!) and fear of failure (OMG everyone just saw me fail!!!) But I really really really wanna get better and feel I have the potential to, ultimately, be a good player. So I’m sticking with it.
A week ago I found myself prepping for a pitch meeting. And the same fears I have with tennis were cropping up (yeah, the fear of failure thing). The worst thing you can do in a pitch meeting is have them see you sweat. I mean, who wants to buy something from someone who’s nervous about their project?
I’ve taken a ton of pitch meetings and normally don’t get nervous about them anymore because I’ve been told I’m “good in a room” but since I’ve been holed up a while writing/animating a bunch of new stuff, it somehow felt new. And I had a butterflies.
Web Series: CLASSIC ALICE
This web series reached the 1,000,000 views mark a couple of weeks ago, and it deserves every one of them. Here’s why:
Find out all about CLASSIC ALICE HERE
Leesa Dean Answers Your Question, “Does size matter?”
Adventures in Digital Series Land #105
by Leesa Dean
Ah, the age-old question: Does size matter? Maybe not, according to the IAB. And yes, I’m talking about online content. Specifically, how long episodes should be. This is a REALLY important consideration when you’re putting together a digital series.
For the past few years, the going practice was to have each episode be between 2-5 minutes long. Anything longer: a death knell. And I kinda learned that the hard way.
When I started, I had absolutely no idea how long to make my episodes so each one ended up being between about 6-8 minutes. Or longer! My thinking was, it makes sense for vlogs to be shorter, but I wanted to show off my work. I was still thinking with a tv/cable mindset vs. a YouTube one.
CARGO 3120: Making the Switch
The Making of a SciFy Franchise – #22
by Aaron Walker Sr.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The Story So Far starts HERE)
On our last blog, we talked about the alternative content we are working on for the Cargo 3120 project. While we are not abandoning the webcomic, we felt it necessary to work on website content that we can push out sooner to our readers. Like Daymond said, the goal was always to present our story to the world in whatever format that we could. Adding the short story and the audiobook allows us to give our readers an immersive experience we feel they will enjoy.
The goal is to tell the same story in three formats, giving our audience a chance to read it (short story), hear it (audiobook), and eventually, see it (webcomic). This approach also gives those who may not be comic fans a chance to enjoy the story as well. And I speak for all of Team Cargo when I say: We are excited about the future of Cargo 3120!