Are Web Series The New Indie Film? Part 2 – Finding An Audience
Second in a two part series. Co-written by Chris Hadley and David H. Schwartz, and also available via the Huffington Post
Second in a two part series. Co-written by Chris Hadley and David H. Schwartz, and also available via the Huffington Post
First in a two part series. This article is also available on the Huffington Post
“There’s so many great web series out there, especially in the comedy genre. We love web series because it opens the door for niche concepts that get overlooked for television”
“For years, I have been a hired actor for various gigs in New York, and around the country. It has been my job to help tell other people’s stories, with my own take of course, but they were other people’s visions,” McFadden says. “This was my opportunity to create my own work and share a story that I connect to on a personal level.”
“I was hired by an older English actress who lived in a one room studio in the heart of Hollywood by herself. Her husband was dead, all of her friends were dead, and she had no one. She was a lovely, complicated woman. And she was alone and frightened. I drove her to the market and to do errands and would make sure she had everything she needed and she would pay me what she called ‘mad money.’ And I needed that mad money at the time.”
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“That was the most amazing feeling, because even though we come from such different places, we still have so much in common. It fueled my belief that young women’s stories deserve to be told.”
“I kept hearing about similar experiences and ‘New York’ characters from other friends and actors. I wanted to create a web series that captured these wacky experiences and people”
The five leads in LARPs: The Series are all classically trained theatre actors. The key point, here, is that they’re theatre actors, and that means that there are some unique challenges when performing for a web series.
My hatred of job interviews should have convinced me to never be an actor. I’m not terribly smart.