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I've got an HF10. I'm no expert (animation rather than live-action for me, mostly), but it's a damn fine camera with really nice picture quality.

VERY impressive. If I'm any judge (and I am, when it comes to game-related stuff), I'd say that if you marry that sort of production quality to a decent script and some half-decent promotion, you're on track for a million views or more. Give me a call when you've finished it if you want some...

Not quite sure why this got moved to "Promotional", given that it's linking to a hard information site directly on-topic for the board, that isn't selling anything, but hey. Second and third parts of the guide to making a website for your series or show...

I rather liked the energy, actually - but then I've got a soft spot for action a mile wide. A couple of less-technical recommendations: - Action is all about reactions. All your actors are trying very hard to be "action movie cool", and that comes across as expressionless. Look at the really...

Righty, after thinking about this a bit: - I'd say your target audience for this is very much the "silly stuff" side of the Internet. Have you tried Fark, Something Awful, 4Chan (I know, I know...), BoingBoing or Collegehumour? - For submitting to anything vote-driven like Digg and the above...

So about half way through this week I sat down to start working on my piece for Guerilla Showrunner this week, which I was intending to be a quick guide to setting up a website for non-techie types. It grew. So, Part 1 is out today, covering webhosts, what you don't need, goals, content...

Thinking laterally, it seems that you could turn it around. All the actors you meet want lines? Then you can attract actors by giving them a few lines. Here's the key - if they need it for their reel, does it need to be in the main production? Could you shoot alternate takes that you know...

I've seen this happen with AdWords accounts. Give it a few more days. If you're still seeing nothing, it may be worth briefly significantly increasing your max CPC and seeing if that kicks it into action - then drop it back down again. Also, check the Quality Score assigned to each keyword. If...

All interesting stuff. I feel a review coming on...

Well, I write about getting more viewers for webseries a lot (over at www.guerillashowrunner.com), so I'll have a go at coming up with a few suggestions! But first, a couple of questions, if you don't mind! 1) Do you have a trailer cut? If so, where have you tried to distribute it? 2) Have...

OK - I can't speak for the rest of the board, but I know I'd have a few questions: 1) What is your past experience? What films have you distributed, on what budgets, and with what success? 2) What approach will you use, and what channels? As much info as possible would be good here...

An editor friend of mine (who worked on Monsters amongst other things) is very excited about it. How are its effects, transitions, and so on? And does it have decent color correction? Having shelled out for Colorista a while ago, there's a certain "cold dead hands" issue there...

ItDonnedOnMe - Really interesting arguments - thanks, your post made me think. "Additionally, you're not likely to grow very fast if your entire audience is purely the 100 people you initially convinced to pay, as there's very little potential network effect there. " Web series aren't a...

Absolutely agreed, you need to get peoples' attention in the first place. This is actually a semi-solved problem: the Internet Marketing community (and direct marketing before them) have spent ages figuring out things like social proof (my "friends" comment - could equally be one or several...

Paul - the problem with advertising, as I mention in the post, is that the Return On Investment is pretty horrible. You can up it if you can sell advertising yourself, but it's a hard road. Papertwinproductions - I agree, no-one's going to pay for a web series that's just one amongst...

Hey, everyone! Thought people on this forum might be interested in a discussion that's brewed following a post of mine on Guerilla Showrunner.com. It's all started because I've been doing a bunch of research into unconventional methods of monetising web series, specifically. As I did the...

Heya, everyone! Just wrote a quick article which I thought might give anyone who's currently stuck in Editing Hell a bit of a laugh - http://guerillashowrunner.com/2011/02/the-five-stages-of-editing-denial-anger-bargaining/ Hope you like it! (Also hope it's OK to post this here. I figured...