I don’t make a #webseries, I make Indie TV
I make an Indie TV series called “Vampire Mob.”
Why don’t I call Vampire Mob a “webseries”?
It’s not because I’m ashamed of being on the web, which is one rebuttal I received - that’s just fucking stupid.
It’s not because I really want to work in network TV and I’m using the show to somehow “break into the industry.” I don’t and I’m not. If I wanted to work in TV, I wouldn’t waste a millisecond working on anything but that goal.
Here’s the very simple reason.
Deb Mozer watching Vampire Mob in Los Angeles directly from YouTube on her television using an XBox.
It’s easy to explain.
Indie TV is television made independent of a network distributed worldwide via the Internet.
“What channel is it on, Joe?” (which you have to say aloud with a whiny voice)
What channel is Netflix on, asshole?
Charlotte Widdows watches Vampire Mob in the United Kingdom on her television directly from YouTube using a Playstation3.
Netflix and Hulu will be making their own series and guess which channel you will watch it on - the Internet.
“If you call yourself Indie TV you are competing with network television.”
Dude, when it comes to the real estate of people’s time, video games, tv shows, movies, ebooks, twitter, kitten videos and porn are all competing for people’s time. There’s a content tsunami headed to the Internet and there’s already too much to watch as it is.
SAG New Media signed over 1,800 signatories last year. That’s 1,800 shows, plus all the shows that are made under AFTRA’s new media contract, plus all the shows made with no union at all.
Welcome to the terrordome.
I shot 125 pages with 22 actors over two seasons without a network.
Many of those actors are award winners and folks from shows like “The Simpsons,” “The Sopranos,” “Criminal Minds,” “Boardwalk Empire” and “Parks and Recreation.”
You can watch “Vampire Mob” on TELEVISION directly from YouTube using an Xbox, a PS3, a Tivo and Blue-Ray players made by Sony and others.
That’s why I call “Vampire Mob” Indie TV, because it is.
Dona Strohbehn streaming Vampire Mob through an XBox and watching it on a 120-inch projection screen.
preach it, brother.
