The Best Ways to Attract Great Actors to Your Web Production

Are you ready to start your web series and wonder how you can get great actors without a huge budget? Or maybe you need actors for your first commercial? What should actors learn to recognize in a good online show before signing up?

Prolific actor, Heath Allyn will be on the Web TV Trailblazers Summit Live on Hangouts on Air to reveal the secrets to attracting the best actors to your web TV show or commercial and let you actors know what to look for in a good deal.

Heath is a musician, writer, director, producer and one of the most working actors in Austin, Texas. Since 1981 Heath has been playing music and acting in numerous indie films and web series, including Project 23 and Arcana.

Heath usually writes, directs, stars, scores, edits and completes post production on his own films like the Batman piece below.

Heath strives for versatility and variety on all fronts having played all kinds of parts across genres and writing and recording all kinds of music from original rock and pop songs to film scores and commercial jingles. He wears many hats and has probably tried on pretty much all of them. He will be available for questions after the interview.  Join us!

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Take Your Social Passion to Web TV and Maybe Change the World

Do you have a strong social or political stance you’d like to get out there in the world? Do you believe in a cause so strongly you must find a way to get the message out there?

Web series are a perfect way to do that. This week, Val Gameiro, who has lots of experience bringing social blights, such as human trafficking, modern slavery and human rights to light, by using the power of online TV.

Val Gameiro is an Austin, Texas based writer turned director with a passion for stories with a message. After 10 years writing for film, Val turned to directing, and has worked on several shorts (When She Smiles, Aftermath, Perseverance, Suffer the Children, etc.), a web series, 7 Shades Of Lenity and multiple Script-to-Screen events held by the Austin Actors Conservatory (SAG).

Val is in post-production on a paranormal thriller short, Sunset in McDade, and in post-production on his first feature film, Amnesia, focusing on the topics of Human Trafficking and Human Rights abuses in institutions. He also shoots for SXSW, is one of the organizers of The Show! (an Austin-based monthly event highlighting local film and comedy), and is the VP of Video Production for TXSTAR Entertainment Inc. (an Austin-based full-service film and video production company, specializing in affordable action).

Watch Val live on the Web TV Trailblazers Summit on Google Hangouts on Air, October 3, 2013 at 5 pm PST/7 pm CST/ 8 pm EST. Val is also available for questions & answers after the presentation.

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~ Rhonda
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How to Create a Web Series Tip # 1 – The Story is Everything

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.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/ad/229532

The elements that help shape your story are:

1. Genre
2. Script
3. 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!

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