OK: empiezo.
I’ve been waiting for a reason to start this craze some may call blogging. Waiting
for a title (Mistakes: Made in NY), a theme (a weekly interview with a new, random person), or, quite simply, the Internet required to create this blog. Verizon,
I’m after you… But, I tried really hard to think of a reason to not start writing something, and I realized that the reason to start writing anything
at all is that there isn’t any reason not to.
*Profundity/college degree.*
Anyways, here’s the real kicker for my creative left side
right now: I want to start a webisode. I know. What? Like, come on. Really?
Microsoft Word isn’t even letting webisode be
a real word (if you were wondering, it does
indeed correct it to both “website” and “episode”… it’s almost as if
someone did that on purpose). So, I’ve been batting around the temptation to
start writing something because, my
gosh, my current life of building Ikea furniture and shopping at the corner
bodegas for the yuca plant amidst walking in the city without my stress-fracture-boot for the
first time and alas finding homey comfort in the nearest Whole Foods is
definitely reader-worthy. However, the reason I’m batting it around is because
I’d truly much rather do this webisode idea. Actually, I’d rather write a blog because it sounds a lot easier. Creating
and maintaining a webisode takes a lot of work,
I imagine. Here’s what I foresee it entailing:
1.
Think of idea ✓
2.
Flesh out idea
3.
Think of the people who you want involved ✓
4.
Contact the people who you want involved
5.
Brainstorm titles ✓
6.
Choose title
7.
Find equipment—cameras, editing software
8.
Realize that’s what laptop cameras and your
friends’ illegal software is for! ✓
9.
Write script
10. Send
script to other actors/director
11. Have
each actor film his/her script sections
12. Edit
episode’s video and sound
13. Make
Youtube account
14. Make
Youtube page (is that what they’re called?)
15. Brand
yourself with graphics and a witty description/catchphrase (obvi)
16. Upload
episode to Youtube
17. Invite
literally everyone you know to that Youtube page
18. Do
this ALL THE TIME
19. Which
means you have to read people’s Youtube comments on your video and page
20. And,
in order to further market yourself, you need to make a Facebook page, or a
website
21. Making
a website takes a lot of time
22. In
the meantime, link the webisode to your website/blog!
23. But
you haven’t made your website yet…
24. Maybe
you should do that before you start something else big that needs a website,
too
25. So…and
have you thought about Twitter?
26. Why
does EVERYONE have a Twitter?!
And it's at this point where I realize it's actually called a webseries, not a single webisode. Whatever, Word doesn't like that either.
I really wish I could’ve come up with Drunk History, but I didn’t. I currently have uno idea... and that's only "no" with a "u", so... Time for brainstorming! I'm thinking Ohio as a platform...
BUT: Social media, online presence, and self-marketing tools, I
never thought I’d gratefully step up to you and say “hello”, but here I am
confidently (or not so) shaking your hand in the face of a career decision. (And also, just as was the
purpose of my London blog, Reasons It’sOK to Speak English, in order to inform the parentals every now and then.)
I’ll end this with a question in which I'd like you to answer:
Q:
Webseries—potential for glory or a waste of time for emerging actors?
(may you now get lost in the Youtube wormhole...)
