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9 Things Web Series Producers Should Know

We watch a lot of films and web series here in the Screening Room, but since we’ll never manage to watch everything, every so often we try to reach into the community and find out what the filmmakers and creative types who produce all of this great content are watching. While we’re there, we try to pick their brain about another topic near and dear to their hearts. This month we tracked down nine web series creators and asked them,

What is one thing you have learned about creating a web series that you wish you had known when you started?

If you’re in a big hurry, scroll to the bottom for the readers digest version as well as the shows mentioned in this guide.

Mike Parker – College University Animator

Tell us one thing you’ve learned about creating a web series that you wish you had known when you started.

Shorter is better. Granted, it should still be funny, but shorter is better for the web. When we started with College University , the episodes were epic. 10-15 minutes long. It offered a massive amount of freedom allowing us to put every joke we wanted in there. But for the web 10-15 minutes might as well be 17 hours. When we started Clock Suckers for CollegeHumor, we cut to the chase a lot quicker, put only the best jokes in there and just kept the pace faster and funnier. The result was episodes that ran 5-7 minutes and viewers were more willing to watch it a few times. Now we do viral one-offs for CH and everything is under 2 minutes and viewers watch over and over.

What are you watching? What other independently produced content has caught your attention and ...

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