Yesterday, we did the first promotional shoot for my new web series project, 2 Girls Kissing.

I have to admit that I was slightly stressed about it all.  The location that I chose was the riverside area around the Southbank Centre.  For those of you that are unfamiliar with my fair city, the Southbank Centre is a huge complex housing 21 spaces of creativity, including Royal Festival Hall and the Hayward Gallery.  The riverside area often has street performers entertaining swarms of families and groups of people enjoying the vibe and the views.  And, despite the morning’s torrential downpour, yesterday afternoon was no exception.  Add to this two people that I’ve never worked with and that have never done a shoot of this nature before and, well, let’s just say that I left it to fate to play a much bigger part than usual.

I have to say that my fears all amounted to naught – we had a great shoot, it all ran relatively smoothly and everyone was very easy to work with (the pics below are from my Blackberry).

So, on the offchance that any of you have to undertake a similar endeavour of photographing two girls kissing in one of the busiest parts of the metropolis with the ever present threat of rain, here’s what you need for a successful shoot.

A photographer that knows what she’s doing

2GK is blessed with the creative talents of Gerry Alexis.  Gerry’s day job involves playing with cameras for Sky.  She is also one of the best graphic/illustrator talents that I know – her artwork first graced my schoolbooks when we were eleven years old.  I’ve been wanting to work with Gerry for years and until now has only done my promo headshots, so I’m very grateful that she has jumped on board.



Research

I had originally conceived a photo shoot at night, but then I read about the experience of the Seeking Simone team who photographed two of their girls kissing and decided to can that idea. One afternoon, Gerry and I walked down to the Southbank, which is one of my favourite spots in London, and took some photos around monuments and spots that might work for us.

A cute, comfortable couple

I first met Susan and Jasmin at a gig that Greymatter was playing in London last year, and again at an event for Eurout in January.  I asked them if they were up for being photographed in the name of furthering lesbian visibility efforts, and the rest, as they say…

They are a very cute couple – I thought it was a good omen that they were, ahem, ‘getting some practice in’ whilst Gerry and I were setting up the first shot – and so comfortable and quite oblivious to us that it was a very easy shoot indeed.  I gave them very little direction, save some poses I really needed to get, and Gerry just shot them having conversations and making each other laugh.



An idea of what you need to get

I am developing the look for our website at the moment, so I knew what shots I had to get out of this in order to fit with my concept.  But there were a lot of shots that we got out of this that will probably work much better, especially with some of the print materials that I’ll be developing to support our promotional activities.

A flexible plan

We had planned to do the entire shoot around a circular stone sculpture outside the National Theatre.  However, when we rocked up, there was a group of free runners practicing backflips off the rocks.  Our photographer was running late so we took refuge in the espresso bar at the front of the theatre.  Whilst we were sitting there, I noticed that the wall of the National Film Theatre next door was full of circular vents and thought that that would make a great background image.  It had the added advantage of being away from the main path of traffic, so we did the bulk of our shoot there and moved back to the stone sculpture later in the afternoon.



A disregard of the weather report

It doesn’t matter if the weather report tells you it’s supposed to rain or shine in the afternoon; it’s sod’s law that the worst will happen (this is London, baby!).  We were blessed with no rain and, at around 8 degrees, a positively tropical temperature.  But bring a big umbrella, and plastic bags containing towels for your models to sit on, even if you think it’s going to shine all day.

A sense of awareness

Nothing draws more attention to ‘something going on’ than setting up a long shot. There’s no getting away from it – two girls kissing (or even looking like they might kiss) will cause people to slow down and stare or stop and wolfwhistle, both of which we got.  In between checking shots, I spent a good portion of the afternoon circling our models and photographer whilst they got on with it, watching for people’s reactions as they walked past for anyone that might kick off, quietly telling everyone to hang on, first when groups of the stag party variety bounded past and then when small children were hanging off the stone sculpture, curious to see what we were photographing beneath it (but that was more because I didn’t want to have to deal with an injured toddler).



For all the planning, the meetings, the concepts, the pow wows that happen when preparing a web series, there’s nothing quite like going out and actually doing something or making something to re-inject your excitement for a project again.  

Thanks to Jasmin, Susan and Gerry for chalking up the first ‘making of’ experience of 2 Girls Kissing – here’s to many more!

It has been a pretty busy, very fruitful summer, leading in to what’s shaping up to be an exciting autumn for me. Here’s what I’ve been up to and what’s coming up next!

Web Series

B.J. Fletcher: Private Eye

Last July, Regan Latimer, the genius behind creating and making B.J. Fletcher: Private Eye, signed a development deal with Toronto based production company, Matter Of Fact Media. The announcement was covered by Tubefilter.tv and you can read the announcement on our blog.

Regan is currently working on the pilot script to be included in a package that will be shopped to broadcasters. Whilst we’re keeping our fingers crossed that it will be picked up, we’re continuing to produce content for the website and engaging in other promotional activities. Recently, Regan and the cast did a series of interviews for SistersTalk Radio and I giggled my way through them.

So far, I’ve loved working on Fletcher and, wherever the show goes during this exciting period, I’m looking forward to continuing to contribute to its success.

People often ask how I can manage to work on Fletcher when I live in London and the show is made in Toronto. This shot of a typical meeting was taken whilst we were drafting the media release announcing the development deal.

Such concentration...

2 Girls Kissing – The Web Series

You didn’t think one web series was enough, did you!?

We’re still in early days with 2GK. Like many good things, it was conceived in some moments of silliness during an ichat with (who else?) Regan Latimer. We knew we were on to a good thing when, the next morning, we were talking online whilst at our respective day jobs and we both confessed that we’d had a number of ideas for the show.

We’re still working on the concept and operationally how we’re going to produce it and make it, but I’m really looking forward to sinking my teeth into something creatively again. So watch this space…

Confessions of Indie Web Series Creators

My first article for Tubefilter News was posted last August. It’s an article that I really enjoyed putting together because it gave me the chance to connect with other web series producers that I had previously ‘met’ on Twitter. The resulting article is called Confessions of Indie Web Series Creators: Things They Wish They Knew (I’m sure you’ve already read the complete contributions to the article on my blog!).

Events

London Pride 2009

This one is a little hard to believe, but until this year the closest I’d gotten to a Pride event was shopping on Oxford Street last year and trying to find a way to cross the road whilst the parade went by.

This year, I volunteered with Amnesty International and spent the afternoon walking alongside the float, putting stickers on anyone that moved (and some who didn’t) and passing out flyers. It was pretty hot and we were exhausted by the end of it, but it was a not-too-shabby way to properly enjoy my first Pride.

With fellow Amnesty volunteer, Maite Morren

Eurout’s 1st Birthday

eurOut offers its readers the latest news about European lesbian and bisexual women in entertainment and politics in the English language. Now the biggest blog of its kind in Europe, eurOut celebrated its first birthday last weekend with its supporters and fans, and I was privileged to be able to join them in their birthday celebrations in the beautiful city of Hamburg.

Having tweeted with them pretty much on a daily basis this year, it was great (and slightly weird) to finally meet online their founder and Editor in Chief, Sandra, Entertainment Editor, Natazzz (right, leading our walking tour of Hamburg), Political Editor, Maxime68, eurGeek herself, Tedoe, and new eurOut vlogger, Zasquia.

Much chocolate was exchanged, much steak was eaten, much drinking was done responsibly (!) and many new friends were made. More pictures can be found on eurOut's website.

One of the highlights of the weekend was a concert by the amazing chicks of Greymatter, a British five-piece flown over especially to play for us.  They were absolutely incredible and I'm looking forward to catching them live in the UK.

Enjoying post-concert drinks with some of the chicks from Greymatter

I admire the talent behind eurOut immensely. It is yet another example of what can be achieved with no budget and no resources but a talented group of motivated, exciting individuals. I’m looking forward to next year!

Back to school!

Every good media professional endeavours to keep their skillset current and sharp, so, aware of the start of the upcoming school year, I started to look at training courses that I wanted to do based on requests that I get in my various projects. Completely unplanned (and definitely unintended), my schedule this autumn returns to that of my university days as I take on two modules at City University, where I first learnt HTML back in the day (image credit - City University).

I will be taking a module in Flash & ActionScript as part of the training and development that goes with my role as Online Marketing Specialist at PayPoint.net. Whilst I have a working knowledge of Flash, it’s always a blessing to be able to learn something old school, so look out on the website after Christmas for the fruits of my labour!

The second module is in PHP. I have to admit that, as my strength and passion lies more in design, I never thought that this is something I’d ever take. However, Six Revisions put out an article earlier this year arguing that designers should learn to code and, whilst I didn’t agree with all of it, I think knowing more about how your designs will be interpreted and coded can only make you a better designer.

Back in the day, I worked in the voluntary sector and, to this day, I still get a lot of requests asking for advice on ‘techie things’ from voluntary sector organisations with which I’m still in touch, or that got my email address from someone… Anyhow, I’ve recently been involved in much discussion and projects recently in the way that open source tools can help non-profit organisations. Add all that to my burgeoning interest in Wordpress and the fact that I aim to do a day of pro bono work every month, and it makes sense that I learn the nuts and bolts of how to properly set up dynamic, database driven websites using open source content management systems.

I was going to leave this module until January, but I’d like to get started on developing the 2GK website as soon as possible, and I’d like a clean schedule in January – who knows what the New Year will bring! I’m actually looking forward to being back in the classroom again. And come the New Year, my CV and portfolio will be in such amazing shape.

So, busy summer - sooooo looking forward to the rest of the year.  Have a great autumn!

A few weeks ago, I was putting together a post intended for the Life On Fletcher blog.  It was going to be a bit of a how-to based on our experiences of making the show.  As we’d just announced our development deal, we were feeling a little reminiscent, so the angle changed to ‘what we wish we’d known before making our show’.

I opened out the question to a number of web series producers whose shows I’d discovered via connecting with them on Twitter. Within a couple of weeks I had accumulated six great responses that needed to be shared with an audience wider than our blog.  The resulting article, Confessions of Indie Web Series Creators: Things They Wish They Knew, ended up on Tubefilter.tv (thanks to Tubefilter’s Marc Hustvedt for having us!).

That was last Tuesday; today is Sunday, and a lot of the emails and messages I’ve received since then have been requests to see, in full, what everyone sent in.  Their contributions were very different from each other.  I have to say that it was quite overwhelming in the first instance to receive it all, but then to read it all…

Susan Miller, Executive Producer & Writer of Anyone But Me

“Here’s what I wish I’d known:

“How freakingly awesomely totally cool this would be, dudes!  Could have saved me hours of sitting on my shrink’s well worn couch crying over the terrible state of the world and where to relocate my lost place in it and how ever would I make my voice heard again.

“But, then, if I had known then what I know now I might have been just a little too happy. And, after all, it was my discontent with the confines and dictates of the mainstream that moved me to venture into this great unknown. To say yes to this web series madness.  To say yes to Anyone But Me.

“Of course, there are things I wish I’d known, only because I would have prepared by taking vitamins, going to the gym, getting an MBA and learning how to talk in P.R:  

“That you have to ask. A lot of people for a lot of things. Favors. And how to’s. And please watch and please, please, please.

“That you have to scour web sites and blogs to find other web sites and blogs to make connections. You have to get your schmooze on and walk into rooms and hand out cards and be able to describe your show in one sexy killer sentence.

“That you have to reach out. To CEO’s and store owners and people walking down the street and sell them your wares and not be daunted. Even though you used to sit alone in a room or café and just write or think all day and talk to no one. You do it all for the show. And the show becomes all that you do.

“That there are remarkably generous people out there. That the fans make you. That we are a community. That we have to keep the faith.

“Whatever I didn’t know, I’m learning.  Which makes me feel forever young. And part of something. Something uncharted.  Something without rules. Something we’ll define for ourselves. Something big. And something freakingly, awesomely, totally cool.”

David Nett, Executive Producer, Writer, Actor, Director, Boom Operator on GOLD

“The thing that I knew, but didn't really comprehend fully was, since Season 1 of GOLD was a deferred pay gig (basically, everyone was a volunteer), we'd have a lot of drop-outs and last-minute replacements, and a lot of scrambling to fill gaps. I knew it would be rough, but wasn't really prepared for the sheer amount of wrangling I'd have to do, during both production and post. I now know, if I can't scrape together strong pay packages, to line-up back-ups for my back-ups.

“But I guess the biggest thing I wish I'd known (and better prepared for) was the long-term commitment to the project after shooting was complete. I come from the world of theater -- however rough the production is, once a play closes and all the bills have been paid, it is all over, save the fond (or not so fond) memories. Not so with web series, I found.

“I came into GOLD with a pretty decent shooting plan and a rough post production plan, but no real understanding of the massive amount of ongoing promotion, paperwork, decision-making and just plain grunt work that would continue not only after shooting was done but even after our Season 1 finale dropped last month. It is certainly not all bad, and I have a deep commitment to my series and doing everything I can to keep it going into Season 2, but it is a little more than I bargained for. Had I known those things ahead of time, I'm not certain what I'd have done differently, but at least I wouldn't have kept saying to my wife, "we'll have our life back soon, I promise." I didn't mean to lie to you, sweetheart. I swear.”

Robb Padgett, Creator & Actor, Life From The Inside

“How do you get people to WATCH?!

“Not as if we've figured this one out exactly. But we sure know more now than we did. Of course, back when our show first hit the web in January of 2007, there weren't as many shows online. It was easier to get the attention of web show watchers (though there were fewer web show watchers back then too). But it still took us a while to figure out how to get noticed. In fact, I'm not sure we ever really DID figure it out. If it weren't for the help of people like the producers of Break a Leg mentioning our show in interviews and people like Sunny Gault noticing our show and profiling it on her old show Viral, we might not have ever gotten noticed.

“I guess what I should say is that I wish I would've known how to PROMOTE the show before we started making it. It took us WAY too long to do stuff like tell the good people at Blip.tv about our show. And they've been some of our biggest supporters of all (Blip is good to a lot of shows. I sure wish Felicia Williams was still at YouTube though, she was a true champion of independent content).

“We're still learning how to get our show out there. And we've discovered just how big a task promotion actually is. I'm not a huge fan of publicity, but I like having people watch our show so...

“Oh, one other thing I would've liked to have known is that it's much easier to shoot your entire season ALL AT ONCE than to shoot it as you go. Though our current show with it's full-length episodes might have been hard to do that way.”

Justin Marchert, Creator of Big Bother

“The most helpful piece of knowledge that I could have used before making Big Bother is that everything takes longer than you think it will. I had the initial idea for my web series in May 2007. I was an actor-turned-filmmaker who thought I'd have a finished product ready in two months. Oh, was this the underestimate of a lifetime. I spent nearly a year writing the script and doing preproduction. Then, the two weekends I'd initially allotted for principal shooting somehow stretched into several months. Next, I thought I was ready to go to the editor and put it all together. But, you then learn that there is a whole phase called "capturing." This means spending months digitizing, logging and filing all of the footage. Your editor won't even speak to you before this is complete. Alas, we come to editing. We average 15 hours of editing for each 3-minute episode of Big Bother.

“Consequently, most episodes are finished the night before they're released (feel free to read the chronicles of creating Big Bother on our Bblog).

“In hindsight, I'm actually glad no-one told me it would be a two-year process.  Otherwise, I don't think I'd ever have begun.”

Renée Olbert, Actor & Co-Creator, and Rosemary Rowe, Writer & Co-Creator of Seeking Simone

Renée and Rosemary pointed me to this article that they had written on their blog entitled Things We Learned About Making a Web Series – no sense in reinventing your wheel, right!?

This is my favourite tip from their list:

“7. You will not have time to knit. You just won't. So give it up.”

Regan Latimer, Creator, Executive Producer, Director, Writer, Editor of B.J. Fletcher: Private Eye

“If you had asked me a year and half ago if I'd ever considered making a web series or producing web content, I probably would have responded with something very close to, "the what?". My knowledge of web series, or producing any kind of content for the web was in it's absolute infancy. That said, I believe that my ignorance on the subject probably worked in my favour. Having no idea just how absolutely all encompassing and life absorbing it would become is probably one of the main reasons Fletcher came into being. Not to say that if I had known then what I know now I wouldn't have done it, more that I certainly would have adjusted my expectations and game plan accordingly…”

You can read the rest of Regan’s contribution on the Life On Fletcher blog.

And in case you were wondering…

Rochelle Dancel, Associate Producer, B.J. Fletcher: Private Eye

“I’m actually glad that I didn’t know what I know now because I would have said a resounding, “No!” - not only to the sleep deprivation that comes with being ahead in the five hour time difference, the elevated stress levels and having to be the go-to person on subjects that I know fuck-all about, but also to the education I received, to the opportunity to push myself beyond what I thought were my limitations and the richness of my new community, the people I have met, and the new opportunities in my life that this show has brought.”


Artwork is copyright of their respective shows.

Yesterday, we announced our development deal with Matter of Fact Media.  As you can imagine, we're all super excited!  Read the coverage on Tubefilter.tv.

In case you've been too busy to watch it yet, this is the trailer to our second season.

You can catch all of Season 1 and Season 2 on bjfletcherprivateeye.com

Thank you to everyone for your messages of congratulations!  The media release is below.


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Regan Latimer, creator and producer/writer/director of web series B.J. Fletcher: Private Eye, has signed a development deal with Toronto-based production company Matter of Fact Media.  Under the terms of the agreement, Latimer will work with MoFM Executive Producer Vanessa Dylyn to develop a television broadcast proposal for the web series, including a new pilot script based on the hilarious characters and adventures from B.J. Fletcher: Private Eye.

The online team behind the web series will continue to produce original content for the show’s website and blog during the development period. Regardless of the format in which it continues, unique content from the show will continue to be made available online.

Latimer announced, “It’s an exciting time for everyone involved with B.J. Fletcher: Private Eye.  We need to thank our wonderful fans and viewers, whose tremendous support has been a huge part of this development. We’re also very grateful to the blogs and websites that have actively promoted us.

“We want to say a special thank you to Sarah Warn and all of the team at AfterEllen.com for giving us our break and supporting us through the first two seasons.  They are very much part of the Fletcher family and we have learned so much from them.

“Our talented cast, including Lindy Zucker, Dana Puddicombe, Vanessa Dunn and Karim Morgan, and all of our production team, including Rochelle Dancel and Rikki Zucker, are committed to supporting the show as it develops and we are confident that our partnership with Matter of Fact Media will take Fletcher in a positive new direction.  We look forward to bringing Fletcher back to your screens in the near future, more wicked awesome than ever!”

One of the fastest growing forms of online entertainment is the web series.  As an industry yet to fully mature, the majority of web series’ are homespun labours of love, produced by groups of friends and collaborators eager to showcase their talents.  Despite the wealth of professional experience in their current or day jobs, a web series enables many creators to take the reigns for the first time.

I’ve put together a list of ten tools that we use to put our web series, B.J. Fletcher: Private Eye online compiled from the many ‘how do we get a website for our show…?’ themed emails.  Bear in mind that there are more complex and more expensive ways of going about achieving what each of these tools does for us.  This list is neither exhaustive or original, but if your expertise lies solely in producing your show, you’re a novice in the world of putting up a website and your budget is the sum total of the change in your back pockets then this is a not-too-shabby way to go.

1. Dreamweaver

Yes, our site was put up in Dreamweaver!  Dreamweaver is an example of a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor.  

Dreamweaver is not free, but there are any number of free WYSIWYG editors out there. Check out this article by thefreecountry.com on free HTML editors, web editors, and WYSIWYG web editors and site builders.

You might also want to check what free software comes with your computer; for example, Mac users should find a version of iWeb on their computers.  The website for one our favourite web series’, FEED, is built in iWeb and also features a number of widgets and tools, including Site Meter for all your traffic stats and a PayPal Donate button for fundraising.

FEED

2. Blogger

Life On Fletcher is powered by Blogger and we chose Blogger for two reasons.  Firstly, I wanted to keep the existing site intact and I didn’t want to do a big integration or move it off Dreamweaver.  Blogger allows us to update the blog online and publish it to our site via ftp.  Secondly, I wanted the blog published on our URL i.e. www.bjfletcherprivateeye.com/blog as opposed to, for example, bjfletcherprivateeye.wordpress.com, so that it would be search engine friendly.

Instead of adding a blog to your site, you can follow the example of some of our favourite shows and put your show straight onto a blog. For example, Seeking Simone is powered by Typepad, while GOLD is powered by Expression Engine (with comments powered by Disqus, natch!).  

Seeking Simone

GOLD The Series

I’m a big fan of both of those sites.  They’re both very clean and easy to navigate.  Most of all, the style of their sites is in keeping with the theme of their shows.

3. Daily Motion

Our episodes are available on Daily Motion’s player.  We chose Daily Motion after signing up to the Motion Maker programme, which allows us to upload videos of a higher file size and of any length compared to their standard offering.

The main advantage to having a third party video player is that we don’t have to utilise our bandwidth or server space to allow you to enjoy our episodes.  There are many video hosting services out there with embeddable players.  Look for one that gives you a nice encode, might offer you quicker upload times and allows you to upload videos suitable for the file size and episode length of your show.  Vimeo, another one of our favourites, is used by We Have To Stop Now, and blip.tv is used by Anyone But Me, as well as Seeking Simone and GOLD.

4. Picasa

We chose Picasa because you can upload and create photo galleries in five different sizes, something we were quite keen on to show off the skills of our photographer, Jonathan Thomas.  Other free, popular, embeddable photo gallery sharing aps include Flickr and Photobucket.

There are many advantages to hosting your pictures in an online slide show.  The main one is that, if you have a gazillion behind the scenes pictures like we do, as with video you don’t take up valuable storage space and bandwidth when people view your high res images.  The fact that it’s also embeddable means that people can embed them in their blogs and on their sites – free publicity for you!

5. Zoomerang

Have you taken one of audience surveys?  If so, you’ve already been introduced to Zoomerang, a free online survey tool.  We’ve used it to put together demographic surveys of our viewers to give potential sponsors a better understanding of who watches our show.

Another popular survey tool is SurveyMonkey.  However, Zoomerang allows you 30 questions for free where as SurveyMonkey only allows you 10.  Although the basic version of both of these tools is free, any reporting functionality is not, so if you have a few surveys on which you need to report it may be worthwhile taking out a monthly subscription to save yourself the time of manually compiling everything in a spreadsheet.

6. Google Analytics

If you're serious about developing your site and attracting advertisers, you're going to need the stats to back up your pitches, and that's where Google Analytics comes in.  It’s a free service that tracks not only the number of visitors to your site and where they came from, but also where they go once they get to your site – very useful when you’re trying to work out where to place one of your sponsor’s ads so that the most people see it, or to track whether anyone can find your deeply buried FAQ page.  How else would we know that, in the month of June, the most popular link on our homepage was the Season 2 link in our tag cloud?  

7. Add This

Make it easy for people to share your episodes, interviews and all the other cools stuff on your site with their friends on all of their social networks.  On our site you’ll see a handy little ‘Share This’ button courtesy of Add This on most of our pages that will allow you to share our content across 55 (and counting) different social networks.

8. Twitter

And speaking of social networking, I couldn’t let it go without mentioning the latest pretender to the social networking crown – Twitter.  We’re big fans, and it has allowed us to connect with some new friends, including the editors at Eurout and Cherrygrrl; some old friends, including the teams at AfterEllen and One More Lesbian, and some other web series talents including Mel Robertson from FEED, David Nett from GOLD, Renee Olbert and Rosemary Rowe from Seeking Simone.

Twitter allows you to keep your fans and supporters posted with up-to-the-second news on anything to do with your show.  On Fletcher, we tweet interviews, episodes, reviews and updates to do with the development of our show.  The Twitter widgets on our homepage and blog are from Twitter’s own site, and the ‘follow us’ tab that you see on every page comes courtesy of Go2Web.

9. ichat

Ok, so ichat isn’t strictly one that powers our website, but it is super useful when you’re talking to producers, other team members, PR people or journalists in far flung locales.  Fletcher is made in Toronto and I live in London (UK, not Ontario!) so mounting phonebills is one cost I was keen not to incur.  Luckily, all our producers come equipped with their own Macs (it’s almost a pre-requisite for joining our show) so very important video chats are powered by ichat.  Skype is a popular alternative.

10. yousendit

The only tool that we pay for, yousendit allows us to send, receive and track large files – incredibly important when emailing entire episodes or photo galleries for review.  Yousendit’s free service allows you to send files of up to 100mb.  However, we will soon be trialling Dropbox, a free file sharing service across computers that will hopefully relax the strain on our threadbare pockets!

So that’s 10 tools without which we couldn’t put our show online.  There are many more out there we’re currently playing with that you might see on our site in future, including Nabble, a free online embeddable forum where all of you can gather to ponder whether George will pick Fletcher or Jenna.  There are some incredible web series websites out there, ranging from sites that were put up on a wish and a prayer and absolutely no coding knowledge, to sites that were built by marketing powerhouses.  Take a good look at them all for inspiration for your site – just don’t forget to watch some incredible shows too!

What tools have you found useful for your web series website?