Cutting Edges - המגרסה

Episode Breakdown:
1:10 - “Stareable is an audience building platform for web series creators”
3:45 - “The current distribution methods for web series creators are kind of lacking”
5:45 - “Anyone who has an experience - can. All of the gatekeepers are busy doing something else”
7:35 - “What our community is really trying to do is give creators or people who are interested in becoming creators, the resources and the knowledge they need, to take their destiny into their own hands”
9:40 - “The bridge between writing and actually producing something you have written is a pretty long one and a pretty scary one, so a lot of people come to the Web Series community with a full script but they have no idea what to do with it”
14:10 - “Every other week there is a new Web Series getting sold to Television”
17:40 - “I think people still haven’t quite figured out what an internet only video landscape looks like”
21:00 - “Every person has different talents, has different interests,  has different things that they can offer the world, and so me trying to follow in Bernie Su’s footsteps isn’t going to do me any good - because I’m not Bernie Su”
23:30 - “People are starting to understand that it’s not just a cute thing you do on the weekend with your friends, it’s a legitimate art form”

Episode Breakdown:
1:30 - “Hallyu is a Korean word, “Ha” means “Korean” and “Llyu” means “Entertainment”
4:35 - “In 2013, Samsung made a branded Web Series”
8:25 - “The Korean government realised that the format is very important for the future”
14:55 - “in 2014 I discovered LA Web Fest”
18:00 - “We have the formula. That makes us have a future”
22:50 - “Dialing on your app to Korea, Europe, South America or Australia is something you can do at any day and any time and use that information that every person has in a different part of the world in order for your creation to be better”

Episode Breakdown:
3:50 - “Content for the Web is very blurry at the moment, it can basically fit anything”
7:20 - “We went with the pilot to meet them (potential audience) directly in schools, high schools, we screened the pilot and got immediate feedback”
10:00 - “The problem is, if you try to do something perfect you just end up with something very, boring”
13:50 - “I always preferred to work with a smaller team for a longer time”
16:50 - “What touches you in the pilot is the mood and the atmosphere of the whole thing”
18:45 - “That’s what art and culture can do, is that you share something that you cannot explain”
21:40 - “it’s a very new format, and there’s not many people who know so much about it, so we’re still investigating what are our best ways to find funding, to find distribution” 
23:25 - “I think more and more broadcasters are going to emerge because there is a big demand on content”
27:20 - “We got some interest from some VOD platforms in Europe and America, but it’s very difficult for them to come onboard before we have the production and the full episodes”


Link to Pilot Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc29CWSwzhE

Episode Breakdown:
2:10 - “I started photographing a lot of local bands”
5:30 - “Short films are kind of dead in their opinion, if you want to get work in America - you need to be making a Web Series”
8:00 - “it’s hard to tell the story of High Life without talking about Low Life”
11:00 - “we were very specific about making sure that the story was tailored towards the  Web Series format”
15:00 - “The strategy for us was that if we could make something that was really nice production value and high class entertainment than we will get some critical success and a following, and luckily that worked for us”
18:30 - “The hard part with Web Series is how to cash flow it, how to finance it”
22:00 - “I think the next 12 months is going to be a really interesting period”
25:50 - “I got a little theory of myself, sometimes I get into trouble for it, but what the hell”
30:50 - “When I would talk to people about the show, especially to those who were already working in Television in Australia or elsewhere, they would go, Oh that’s cute, you made a Web Series - That would drive me insane”

Episode Breakdown:
2:00 - “i have never created anything for the web until RED”
4:55 - “The main challenge is to sustain the story”
6:00 - “I have to think economic-wise, that’s my main challenge as a writer”
10:30 - “Nobody was considering funding Web Series in Brazil, so we have our own way of doing things at the moment”
12:50 - “Can Web Series create some sort of a profitability model?”
15:55 - “Our Fans are our main backers”
18:20 - “if your story has good impact on people than they are likely to back your project, that’s how I view success”
19:20 - “Write something that you would like to see”

Vivian’s Email - [email protected] 

Episode Breakdown:
1:45 - “My first web series won a lot of awards and it opened many doors for me”
3:00 - “Web Series is like cinema, the same rules but a different platform”
5:20 - “Web series can have different Genres (Not only comedy)”
7:35 - “I did an experiment with my last Web Series (Anachronisme)”
12:10 - “There is a lot of good feedback for Anachronisme”
14:10 - “Netflix is a good example for the evolution of cinema”
17:22 - “it’s really important to create, not just one web series”

Episode Breakdown:
1:30 - “We started creating content quite early”
2:25: - “The whole filming stuff started when we were in school”
5:00 - “2 Days later we got a letter from the legal department of Warner Brothers”
6:55 - “Up until today we counted 59 Million Downloads”, “We got a call from the Wachowski brothers and they laughed their balls off”
9:00 - “Ever since we were kids we carried around a box and every time we had some funny ideas, we would write it on a piece of paper and put it in that box”
11:30 - “We got out our Play mobile figures from the basement of our parents and put them in front of the big TV screen and we shot some Western scenarios”
13:30 - “We locked ourselves in his little apartment in the back woods of Germany for a weekend with a huge amount of foam rubber and fleece and started building and trying”
16:00 - “It’s just really a project where we put everything in that we wanted to do”
19:00 - “The YouTube algorithm does not favor Web Series”
22:45 - “The Ad revenue from YouTube is a joke”
24:20 - “The basic question is how do you define success in the world of Web Series”
26:30 - “People are very much heading in the direction of watching serialised content”
27:50 - “You will not get anywhere without a team that stands behind you and supports you”
30:00 - “One thing that is emerging internationally is that network and telephone companies start building their own video portals”

ראיון עם עם שניים מהיוצרים של ״מדינת ירושלים״ - נתן אודנהיימר ואור דרורי

ברייקדאון:
2:00 - ״לא חשבתי שאגיע לתחום הזה כל כך מהר״
4:55 - ״אתה כותב סיפורים אבל אתה נורא מוגבל בקהל שלך, אם אתה רוצה שאנשים ישמעו את הסיפורים שלך, אתה צריך לעבור מעבר לדף״
7:15 - מהי בכלל מדינת ירושלים?
8:30 - ״להתעסק בירושלים באופן כללי, אנחנו פה, אנחנו מוכשרים ויש לנו את הציוד ובא לנו לעשות״
9:55 - ״מדינת ירושלים זה על ירושלים כמו שהניו יורק טיימס זה על ניו יורק״
12:45 - ״זה התחיל כשאני ותומר יצאנו לעשות כתבות״
15:10 - ״הקונספט היה שיחה עם בנאדם מעניין באיזשהו לוקיישן שאומר משהו על הדבר הזה״
17:40 - ״ירושלים היא מקום מוזר שיש בו כל כך הרבה דברים מוזרים שחייבים לדבר על זה רגע״
19:55 - ״מה זה להראות את ירושלים מנקודת מבט של מישהו שמתחפש לגיבור על? מה זה להראות את ירושלים מנקודת מבט של פמינסטית רדיקלית?״
21:00 - ״בעצם אף אחד מאיתנו לא מגיע מהעולם של וידאו״
24:00 - ״מה הוביל אתכם בשאלה של ״מהו הסיפור הבא?״״
27:35 - ״בתוך הקבוצה שלנו, כל אחד מושך לכיוון קצת אחר״
30:50 - ״מבחינתי כל מה שהוצאנו עד עכשיו, אנחנו עדיין רק מוצאים את השפה, רק מדגדגים את זה, לא עשינו שום דבר שהוא באמת פרובוקטיבי״
32:35 - ״כל הסיפור של קרקעות הכנסייה בירושלים״
34:55 - ״אף אחד לא מוצא את הידיים והרגליים בתוך הסיפור הזה ואנחנו אמרנו, בוא נראה אם אנחנו יכולים לספר את הסיפור הזה בצורה מעניינת ב-12 דקות״
39:30 - ״יש אנשים שעפו על הפרק הזה (פארק ויין) שהוא מראה משהו עמוק״
42:00 - ״לאן לדעתכם הולך העולם הזה של סדרות הרשת?״
45:15 - ״הדברים קיימים, בוא נבין איך אנחנו יוצרים מזה תמונה חדשה, קצת כמו מה שקותימן עושה למוזיקה״
49:10 - ״החזון של מדינת ירושלים הוא להקים מגזין רשת, כמו שיש את Vice News, רק בירושלים״