edwardnigma , very good, I was just answering your questions.
I really don't have anything to prove or anyone to impress, I am just having fun.
I really do wish you luck and I am reading your posts where you describe your goals and wonder if you have any additional goals/needs you didn't list?
I say this because if you want a global audience and reach as many people as possible, why limit yourself to redbox Netflix and domestic tv stations?
People consume media much differently than they did 20+ years ago and even 5-10 years, the whole dynamic has changed with AppleTV, YouTube, Amazon Prime, Netflix streaming etc.
With Chromecast, I can stream movies I buy from GooglePlay straight to my TV and entertainment system. The whole paradigm of entertainment has changed and put YOU in a far better position than ever thought possible to distribute your media to a worldwide audience at the click of a button.
Look at what google is doing with the massive movie/entertainment centers they built in L.A, Tokyo, London and elsewhere.
awesome eh? All free of charge, millions of dollars of studio space, equipment and working space all for free.
you can read more about it here..
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/3f4c846a-e9c1-11e2-bf03-00144feabdc0.html#slide0
Google invests in YouTube studio in LA
By Matthew Garrahan
At Google’s vast new complex in LA, an entertainment revolution is under way. The cream of YouTube talent is shooting their crowd-pulling videos and creating a fusion of old and new media
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The studio is part of a complex in Playa Vista, a film-making hub a few miles south of Venice and Santa Monica steeped in Hollywood history. Martin Scorsese used one of its soundstages for The Aviator, his biopic of Howard Hughes – which was fitting, as Playa is where Hughes built the gigantic H4 Hercules, aka the “Spruce Goose”, once the world’s biggest aircraft. James Cameron filmed part of Titanic and Avatar at Playa Vista, and Transformers, Iron Man and Star Trek were also shot here.
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Given the bustle today you might think that another film or TV series was being produced by one of the big Hollywood studios, but you would be wrong. Today’s activity has a strictly digital flavour. Google, an interloper from Silicon Valley, began leasing the 41,000 sq ft building last year for YouTube, which it owns. The performers using the sets, make-up or green screen visual effects room are producing content exclusively for the online video site.
YouTube doesn’t own the programming being made at the studio. Instead, it has made the space available – for free – to the people making the best videos for the site – a community known in YouTube-speak as “content creators”. In the few months since the studio opened a steady flow of online talent has taken advantage of YouTube’s largesse. It includes performers like the Fine Brothers who are shooting My Music, a comedy mockumentary in the vein of This Is Spinal Tap starring Jarrett Sleeper, the spiky-haired punk I spotted looking for an outfit. Freddie Wong and Matt Arnold, two friends in their mid-twenties, recently shot episodes of their Video Game High School series at Playa, featuring duelling teens blowing each other up, video-game style. Their videos have been watched 850 million times on YouTube.