Ever heard of "round the way" gossip????  Well, watch the 2nd episode of 'Not by CHOICE' @ www.youtube.com/user/notbychoiceseries to find out!  While you are at it, check out the 1st episode along with our website www.notbychoiceseries.com to get acquainted with all of the characters.

Thank you in advance for your support!

The Fine Brothers: 50 YouTube Spoilers in 5 Minutes (Dec 2012)

H+ Episode 45: Der Wahre Übermensch & Episode 46: Sacred Science

Famous comic Bobbie Oliver launches webseries pilot "Saving Face" and kickstarter campaign

Hi, everyone! We want to share something that we are very excited about with you! Saving Face is our new web series, starring Bobbie Oliver and Sally Mullins.  

You can watch it right here:  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAv5dLFqtpk&feature=share&list=UU_VJhXcsHDprmCNXXUpqGUw

 
If you like the show, please visit our Kickstarter page and pledge some money!  

Here's the link:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/201065251/saving-face-1


Even small amounts add up!  If every person who has ever had their life enriched by Bobbie would pledge just $10, we would make our goal easily!  Of course, if you can pledge more, we would greatly appreciate it, and we have included some cool incentives for our donors, so check them out.  We only have days left to reach our goal, so please pledge today!

To Punchy a Web Series

To Punchy – A web series

In the fictional town of Navarin, a motley crew of characters assemble in the aftermath of Punchy’s death. Who killed Punchy? Who is protecting the killer? In a tale of violence, vengeance and pride the lives of a kingpin, a gangster, a bounty hunter, and a kid intertwine.

To Punchy is a new web series, released on January 2013, sure to be added to any crime drama fan’s ‘must watch’ list.

“To Punchy aims to push the boundaries of the web series’ currently being offered” says Will Murphy, the series’ writer director and producer. “The aim of the series is to offer viewers cinematic narrative storytelling right to their desktop – just a click away.”

Shot on the RED Scarlet Camera and made by a team of young industry professionals this project promises bright things to come.

The series starts with a bang when The Foreigner, part homeless drifter, part assassin, ruthlessly kills two and kidnaps an oblivious pedestrian. Filled with characters who could easily be found in a Tarantino/Rodriguez masterpiece, quick dialogue, snazzy comedic sequences and gritty action, To Punchy immediately grabs your attention and doesn't let go. To Punchy’s plot is driven by its eclectic characters - the bounty hunter Quiet with his creepy, sadistic manner; recruiter Suit, with his suave easy talking ways; and kingpin Rusty, with his worn out wisdom to name a few.

The first episode was scheduled released on Wednesday January 2^nd 2013, with three more weekly episodes to follow. For the series and everything else To Punchy visit www.topunchy.com . 

If you want to view the series right now and all the bonus materials please go to: http://www.youtube.com/user/topunchyseries    

Here is Episode 1 to get you started!

All in the Method - Episode 1

All in the Method is a British web series about two actors (Rich and Luke) waiting for their big break. Episodes 2 and 3 were also released in 2012, Episodes 4 and 5 are in preproduction.
Episode 1: Rich has a new audition for the role of a lothario. Is this an opportunity to use his method acting, make a move on Luke's ex-girlfriend and get his iPod back?

Shotgun Mythos--Episode 3

Episode 3 of Shotgun Mythos releases today.  After spending the day looking for the missing girl, Joss returns to his office to find her there in the care of the mysterious Thales.  And Amadan begins looking into the deaths of the girl's foster family.  Visit the show at Shotgun Mythos Website

White Liars: Season 2 Outtakes

A compilation of outtakes from the entire second season of the White Liars web series.

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White Liars follows the exploits of Tim, a down on his luck New York actor in need of a job, and his friend Chet, who has lots of jobs. Their journey takes a satirical look at the world of business, non-paying theatre, and the little white lies that end up becoming much bigger down the road.

Laps: Video Journal, 1/3/13

A chronicle from start to finish of Laps: Season 2.

In this first vid journal for the upcoming season 2, Laps creator, Chad Diez, starting things off.
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Laps is an original iPhone series about a cigar smoking over-eater desperate for a change in his life.

YouTubers React BONUS Q&A #2

Press Heart To Continue: GAMING NEWZ: Pacific Steam Is Better In Naruto

GUIDES Episode One: The Transmutation Begins!

Welcome to season one of "GUIDES."

Today, Extra-terrestrials, aka GUIDES, still secretly live among the human race here on Earth. Working to steer humans in a direction that will ensure that they will transmute to their full psychic and kinetic potential, our Guides are on a deadline: the Galactic Alignment of 2012. GUIDES is a Sci-Fi comedy that follows Earth's LA office 'Guides', as they try to overcome the self-destructive nature of humans, as well as resistance from other Aliens, who do not want humans to evolve or believe they deserve to join the Universal Collective.




Thanks for watching GUIDES Web Series. More of season one to come.

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LIVE: Discuss the IAWTV Awards on our community page. #IAWTVawards

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Join us for an online discussion of the IAWTV Awards on our Web Series Today community page:

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IAWTV Awards Nominations Announcement

The Guild Season 6, Episode 12 - End Game

Codex takes matters into her own hands - The Guild Season 6, Episode 12 - End Game

Hipsterhood - When Hipsters are too cool for each other, but too awkward for themselves

Hipsterhood is a new rom-com web series from creator @iplish. It followers two hipsters in LA's hippest neighborhood, Silver Lake, who keep running into each other, but never talk....

That's right, there's NO DIALOGUE. Only the voice over of what they're thinking about as they think about talking to each other. 

Intrigued? Watch the first episode! And follow them on twitter @hipsterhoodshow

TELEVISION DECLINING RAPIDLY AS SHIFT TO ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT CONSUMPTION GROWS

People looking for entertainment are finding TV to be non-interactive, ad-laden, and missing all the personalized, dynamic features that can be found through digital consumption..

Read the full post:
http://singularityhub.com/2013/01/08/television-use-declining-rapidly-as-shift-to-online-entertainment-consumption-gains-momentum/

HAL THE PERVERT GHOST

Tom and Kathy move into a haunted apartment. Instead of the ghost being scary, though... he's a pervert!

If that sounds like your cup of tea, check out the first episode here:



Want more? Well, you're in luck! Catch the entire eight episode season here:
HAL SEASON ONE

Love it? Hate it? Either way, we'd love to hear from you:
[email protected]

Thanks for watching!

Sincerely,
Greg & Dan

SnobbyRobot’s 2012 #WebSeriesWednesday Awards

This list is my best attempt at viewing each show completely objectively in each of these categories specifically. Now on to the awards!

Read the list:
http://snobbyrobot.com/post/39951162910/snobbyrobots-2012-webserieswednesday-awards

Research credit: Chris

THE INN - Official Trailer

Meet the Mayfarers: Ep. 1.11 - "Raiders of Ralph's Ark"

The family is visited by Maggie’s new boyfriend, Randolf, an Indiana Jones Wanna-be. That’s right, Maggie’s cheating on her husband with a semi-famous archeologist.

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“Meet the Mayfarers” is a comedy about an estranged, dysfunctional family who is forced to live together for one year in order to get their grandfather’s massive inheritance.

New Comedy Web Series

"Not by CHOICE" is a web based series about a working class man named Dave Choice who abruptly loses his job as a cable technician, unable to find decent work in today's economy, he reluctantly finds himself installing cable for a dishonest business man to support his family.

Check out Episodes 1 and 2:

Newest Episode of The Playhouse Soap Opera is Here

This is the latest installment of The Playhouse Soap Opera, a comedy web series that spoofs the soap opera genre. This is Episode Six of Season Two. Previously, Dick and Peggy tried to deal with the news they might be siblings. Keith and Rock conspire to keep them apart. Doris fretted over her unknown blackmailer. Mona and Quentin came up with a plan to take down Doris. Keith's life was in peril.

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Dial-A-Ranger, mocumentary series from Taurian Films

Follow the story of Stan Gerbil, a rabid Power Rangers fan as he documents his efforts to become a hero in his community like the Rangers he idolizes.

The series is the first of a trio of web series from Taurian Films that will hit the Web in 2013.

Stan Gerbil - Seth Jones
Writer/Director - Bj Lewis
Executive Producer - Stephney Keller


Check the Dial-A-Ranger Season 1 Play list at http://www.youtube.com/TaurianFilms

For more on Taurian Films --> http://www.facebook.com/TaurianFilms and @taurianfilms

Creating Something You Love

When Clint dropped into the course of casual conversation that he wanted to do a film project again, my brain went into spin cycle.  We had done both short films  (Perspective, Dogmatic Siblings, Discharged) as well as feature length projects (Making the Mob, Violent Karma).  Never heard of them?  Neither has most of the world.  Hence my concern about another video project.  They require a great deal of time, dedication, and since we are funding them out of pocket, it means that things we want to do (like replace the old car) get put on hold.  But it has been over 5 years since we produced anything.  Actually, that’s not true.  We have produced a lot.  We started a marketing company, and have been producing TV commercials and promotional videos for corporate clients.  But it has been over 5 years since we have produced anything truly creative.  And for anyone who is, or who is married to a creative individual, tempers tend to get a bit short if the creative steam doesn’t get vented in a timely manner.  For the sake of his sanity, and the general mood of our home, we had to consider our options.

I wasn’t overly thrilled at the prospect of investing time and our limited resources into another film.  But the thought of doing something online intrigued me.  When we were making films the distribution options were limited.  You had the film festival circuit, DVD release, and if you were very lucky, a limited theater release.  But the advances in technology changed all of that.  People are watching videos on their phones, their computers, their tablets and laptops.  They are watching in planes and trains, at the park and on the beach.  You don’t have to be in your living room or a theater to enjoy videos anymore.  So with that unlimited market came many possibilities.  So we tossed around a couple of show ideas that he had set aside, but nothing struck our fancy.  Instead, we took a step back and looked at it from a different angle.  Rather than what would we like to create we asked ourselves what we would like to see.  Which brings me to:

Creating a show that you want to watch.
You are your first fan, the one who has to see the thing dozens of times as it is being written, filmed, edited, re-edited and edited again.  If you don’t like the story you have told, you are in for a miserable time!  For us, we took that step back and assessed our interests.  Clint is a fan of dark crime stories.  I, on the other hand, tend to lean toward the sci-fi/fantasy genres.  (Hmmm…wonder how much of that dichotomy provided a point of reference when he was creating our cynical lead character and his bubbly assistant.)  And so the basis for Shotgun Mythos was born.  Our series blends those two genres, creating a series with a hard edged PI who must unravel the mystery of a murder and kidnapping, when he discovers there is more going on than he ever could have imagined.  We drew on Biblical references, Classical Mythology and Celtic Folklore to create a back-story that could support the show we wanted to create.  Which brings me to:

Doing your homework.
Thought you left that phrase behind when you finished school didn’t you.  But doing your homework is critical.  People expect shows to be accurate.  That means if you are doing a police procedural, you need to understand police procedure.  If you are doing a medical drama, you need to know the difference between your cranium and coccyx. If you are doing a sci-fi or fantasy show, you are not off the hook.  It is called science fiction for a reason…there is science involved.  And your fantasy world is most often based on mythology.  Messing up the oldest stories in the world is just asking for trouble. That’s not to say you can’t take some creative license, but be sure that you create a plausible explanation.  And, if you are doing a war movie, talk to military men to see how they would handle a given situation, and please, please have them show you how to properly hold a gun.  Nobody who is serious about shooting holds a gun sideways, gangsta style.  There is a reason for that. Which brings me to

 Enlisting Expert Help
Ask for help.  For Shotgun Mythos we have a former Marine on set when there is a fight scene involving firearms.  He is there to make sure that we don’t do anything stupid for the sake of coolness. And for hand-to-hand combat we have an MMA fighter who trains our guys before they do anything, and explains what we should and should not do.  He has explained which moves are risky, and if they go awry can cause serious damage, as opposed to those that are safe, relatively speaking.  And things do sometimes go awry.  In one scene, the actor leaning into a punch and the actor delivering it miscalculated by a bit.  The result was an all-too-realistic sounding blow, and an actor on the floor holding his nose.  Fortunately, the blow didn’t break anything, the actor shook it off, laughed and insisted that the take be included in the final cut.   But if we had been staging a more risky move, the results could have been bad.

With our concept decided, our homework done and our experts in place, we plunged bravely into the world of web series. And the time has flown by.  We have just celebrated the release of the first episode and are on schedule to release weekly.  Now begins the task of finding an audience who loves the show as well.  To see more about the creation of the show or to watch  episodes, visit us at Shotgun Mythos or at our Blip.tv channel

How To Make Wings (PART 2)

These are the wings I'm building for the Baby Dragon Puppet I'm working on for our webseries Spellfury :)

How To Make Wings (PART 2)

New comedy web series, "Super Life" presents first teaser

20-something superhero Captain Might AKA Mike Mightoffski finds himself moving back into his parents' home after being fired from the Justice Squad.  He must learn to strike out on his own, while still balancing the day to day life and his secret identity.

The series will be produced by Rhino Crate Productions, a Boston-local collective.

Created and Produced by Christian Hegg
Directed by Troy Minkowsky
Production Design by Matt Rasmussen
Written by Christian Hegg, Troy Minkowksy and  Matt Rasmussen

facebook.com/thissuperlife
rhinocrate.com

Web Series Today: Welcome to new "authors"!

We recently sent out a new batch of "author invites", so if you were on the "wait list" you should have received one by now. Check your in-box for an "author invite" and a welcome e-mail.


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The process of adding new "authors" is always a bitter sweet one because the first step we have to do is remove authors who have not contributed in the past 30 days, or more.  This is because the Blogger platform only allows 100 "authors", so we have to make way for new "authors".  It is therefore important that if you wish to keep your "author" position you contribute on a regular basis.

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ACTRA: New Media, Old Attitudes

The ACTRA New Media section stops Canadian actors from being able to do web series UNLESS they are fully funded, or shot under the Co-op distinction.

Read the full post:
http://www.wildsound-filmmaking-feedback-events.com/jenfrankel.com/uncategorized/new-media-old-attitudes

Research credit: Chris

Who Is Mcafee: A Clear And Present Danger

by John Mcafee

I sent a command to the system to activate the camera every 10 minutes and send me still shots.

Read the full story:
http://www.whoismcafee.com/a-clear-and-present-danger/

Feast of Fiction - Naruto Ichiraku Ramen

Teens React to Dumb Ways to Die

Press Heart To Continue: GAMING NEWZ: Sticky Wii Sales Come In Bundles

TomSka: Christmas Demolition (Behind the Scenes)

YouTubers React to Viral Videos Ep. #2

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