That’s right. It’s not the pretty actors, cool special effects or your brother’s awesome, original music that’s most important for your web series. The story you choose to tell is the foundation that can make or break your production’s success.
Your amazing story will decide what cast, crew and even the distribution channels that will be attracted to your web series. Are they interested because of your story? Or are they only showing up for a paycheck?
Story is the future of advertising also. If you can craft a powerful motivating story, you have a web series to captivate audiences, rather than annoy them with a commercial.
The elements that help shape your story are:
- Genre
- Script
- Locations
What genre will your story be set in?
I remember, back when I was a first round script reader for the HBO Green Light Project, the final script chosen for production was originally shot as a “coming of age drama.” In editing it became a “coming of age comedy.”
I never got the full story on how that happened, but you can skip last minute editing room category decisions by getting real clear on what your genre personality is up front.
Is your personality:
- Drama
- Science Fiction
- Reality TV
- Action
- Comedy
Now, you may think you are all about comedy, when really you are scifi.
Or visa versa.
Or even something you never fully realized about yourself.
Note, the ad/web series above is utilizing the Reality TV story format to engage their audience.
Take my genre personality test and get a better perspective. Passion makes the story. For instance, if you’re trying to do a documentary in a drama mode, ‘cause that’s what you’ve been told documentaries should be, but what you really are is an action/adventure personality, your project will be tedious at best and at worst fall flat.
Methos TV and I are sponsoring a free summer webinar How to Create a Web Series with industry leaders being interviewed Live. Preregister here to get your Genre Personality Test and free series pass.
All for now and remember to Tell a Vision!
Video Visionary Muse 