RESEARCHING CREATIVE INDUSTRIES‘SHORT FILM PRODUCERS’

By James Spratt.

RESEARCHING INTO SHORT FILM PRODUCERS.

For my research task I felt I should look into short film producers who base and promote their

work using YouTube. I needed to look into blogs and/or LinkedIn profiles. I found a few blogs

from these producers as they outline work they have done and give tops on how to become a

better producer in the digital media projects. I looked at the blogs of Freddie Wong, Jack &Dean & Ryan Higa who are all media producers and mainly promote on YouTube.

http://sdasianfilm.blogspot.com/2011/07/ill-admit-that-i-spend-unordinary.htmlhttp://onesmileforyou.blogspot.com/2011/08/legendary-british-youtubers.htmlhttp://maypang-amin.com/2010/01/31/interview-with-youtube-star-ryan-higa/

FREDDIE WONG.

Freddie Wong is a ‘short film producer’ and has beenmy favourite for a while now. The blogging website heuses is very simple but its the content that helps theviewers and gives them something to learn from it. Headvises not only independent film makers like himself,but across all the boards of media production rangingfrom music to gaming videos.

I feel the blog includes a lot of detailed information tomake it feel very professional when taking guidancefrom the blog. It basically helps us as media producersout by tipping us through his past experience. Simplesteps such as ‘staying active’ & ‘hard work’ arerepresented in his blog but he elaborates on what youcan do to get what you want out of your effort.

http://www.freddiew.com/

JACK AND DEAN.

Jack & Dean are two independent film producers whocreate short comedy sketches which receive tens ofthousands of views online. The blogging website theyuse is to update viewers on content they haveproduced and even get the viewers involved in ideasetc. The layout is very informative mainly due to theiryoung age targeting a young demographic, but theoverall feel of the blog is great as it allows the users tointeractive by replying to the blog posts and liking

themetc.

The blog also allows Jack & Dean to stay posted withtheir followers and aware them of videos they areplanning to film/produce. Although the blog doesn'tgive out many tips such as Freddie's but it stillrepresents an official blog for viewers to learn on howthey promote their content and keep fans up to date.

http://omfgitsjackanddean.com/

RYAN HIGA.

Ryan Higa is also an independent film producerwho creates a variety of productions from videologs to music videos, to comedy sketches. Hisblog has a similar style to Jack & Dean probablydue to a similar target market. On a whole the

blogholds a lot of information and is regularly updated.

The content that is blogged helps the viewers tokeep up to date on Ryan's videos and gives themexclusive content to watch before it goes onYouTube. The way I can learn from Ryan and theway he subliminally advises people is throughactive and frequent content. He advises a varietyof content as frequent as possible and givingviewers extra thanks by using external websitesother than YouTube to give them exclusiveupdates and footage etc.

http://www.higatv.com/