Jake Jarvi – Find Eyes on YouTube and Keep Them Glued

Jake Jarvi – October 7, 2014 Web TV Trailblazers

 

Jake Jarvi is the creator, writer, director, editor, sound editor, one of the producers ,and a visual effects artists on The Platoon of Power Squadron, a web series with over 38,000 subscribers on a YouTube channel with over 4.5 million video views. Legendary horror director Wes Craven (Scream Series, A Nightmare on Elm Street) recently called his work “Slick in the best sense of the word. Very well-lit, very well-conceived. Very, very powerful and unsettling.”

 

He spent some time in L.A. at the turn of the century, acting in the films Old School and Bondage, appearing in a few commercials, and landing a co-starring role on a Rob Lowe TV vehicle called Dr. Vegas the day it was canceled. He’s served as the Digital Editor for Sheridan Road magazine for the last seven years, editing every video that appears on their website as well as writing over 400 feature articles, profiles, and movie reviews. He really likes movies a lot.

See Jake live on the Web TV Trailblazers Summit and ask him all the hard, Super Hero questions.

 

 

Adapting Your Stories and Books into Digital Content

Have a book you wrote and want to turn it into a screenplay? Or maybe you found this awesome book you just know will make a wonderful web TV show and you are the person to adapt it to the screen.

Kim Williams will be on the Web TV Trailblazers Summit to tell you how she did it, live on Hangouts on Air, October 5 at 12 pm PST/2 pm CST/3 pm ES

Kim Williams is a Writer and Producer who has spent 17 years in Television Post Production and Programming/ Development. In 2004, she decided to chronicle the countless stories she and her friends shared about their white co-workers into a fictional diary, 40 Hours and an Unwritten Rule: The Diary of a Nigger, Negro, Colored, Black, African-American Woman. In 2011, she adapted the book into the web series, the Unwritten Rules.

Kim’s other writing/producing credits include the theatrical play, Bitch and the middle-grade book, MILES AND ZOEY: The Family Tree .

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~ Rhonda Abrons
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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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~ Rhonda
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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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Web TV Trailblazers: Misty Dawn – Texas

In 1965, a television event took place…an event that would change network history. But we’re not going to talk about that. Let us now focus on Misty Dawn, the long-forgotten Gothic soap opera created by Cal Balch-Springs, founder and president of the TBQ (Toxic Broadcasting…well, no one was ever quite sure what the ‘Q’ stood for).

Audiences had become tired of the standard formulaic soap operas that dealt only with sex, greed, murder, mistaken identities, love triangles and the like, so, in the now infamous words of Carl Balch-Springs, “What could one more hurt?” Thus began the downward spiral of Misty Dawn.

Misty Dawn made its television debut on September 21, 1965. The audience for the first episode was almost insignificant. By the time the second episode aired, they both stopped watching.

Terry Yates, Author, Creator and Director of Misty Dawn, Texas: the Found Episodes, says he was inspired to create this Dark Shadows meets  Dallas, comedy/horror/satire,  “as an homage to when I used to run home from school to catch the latest episode of Dark Shadows in the mid 1960’s.”

One of the first true Web TV Trailblazers, Terry produced Misty Dawn before YouTube was ever invented. With a team comprised of highly talented and totally unpaid actors, crew and donated craft services, the show found viewers on the website and Dallas Cable Community TV.

Terry will be speaking at the Web TV Trailblazers Summit. On this free, Live Google Hangout on Air event, Terry will show you how to find the story inside of you and turn it into a show. Get your free pass today!

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Web TV Trailblazers: Cup of Joe Show

One plus one equals an uncensored, rocking comedy?

Joey von Haeger started as an English major in college and decided to drop out because that’s what “geniuses” do. Quickly regretted this decision, Joey went to film school to hone his production skills. After working in the industry as a grip, PA, sound guy, or anything else that paid somewhere around $100 a day, he finally landed with a production company working on a reality TV show. It was then Joey decided he wanted to make a web series.

Then he met Wes.

Wes Powers grew up in Decatur, IL making no-budget horror films with his sisters. In the Summer of 2011, after graduating with a film degree from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Wes moved to Nashville and took an internship at a small production company that eventually led to a full-time editing gig. That’s where Joey came to Wes with an idea for a web series.

Joey and Wes share the secrets and difficulties of producing a web series (and not just any, but a narrative web series) with a budget of $0. They will destroy all your lame excuses for not filming yours. Check out the method to their combined madness in their live interview during the Web TV Trailblazers Summit.

Get your free pass to the summit here and today!

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~ Rhonda
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Web TV Trailblazers: So, You Want to Be a Talk Show Host?

Interviewing expert, Wanda Carraway will help lead your way to becoming a web series talk show that celebrities demand . As a renowned radio, talk show host, web TV and movie producer, Wanda has interviewed such greats as;  Ross Perot, Tom Seleck, Larry King, Chuck Norris, John Bradshaw, Clint Black, Cliff Robertson, Mark Victor Hansen, through her Yellow Rose Talk Show. 

Check out Wanda’s  newest web series production, Dr. Detox.TV  and watch her share her expertise Live on the Web TV Trailblazers Summit. Get your free pass today!

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