The Peculiar Youtube Channel Crossed 5000 views.

Today the Peculiar youtube channel crossed 5000 views. Have you seen all the episodes? Head on over and watch your favorite again!

Cost of Doing a Webseries: Infographic from VGHS and our own Season 2 Budget.

The guys from over at Video Game High School posted up exactly what it cost to do their 1st season of their hit web series.

Now, their $636,000+ cost was for a special effects intense series with tons of locations and shots and all sorts of stuff we don’t have to worry about. They raised their initial money from Kickstarter, and are doing another campaign for Season 2. Their Season 1 ended up at about 200 minutes of video.

$636k. I’d take 10% of that. We did about 103 minutes of video for $3,600.

In reality, to really do what we need to do for the next season of the show, we need to raise about $11,500 for 7 more episodes. That allows me to pay some people a little bit, and covers the cost of some things I didn’t factor into the original budget.

Here’s how it breaks down.

Gear: $1000
Food: $250
Props $250
Closed Captioning (For past a future episodes): $3000
Cast and Crew: $7000

Total: $11,500

The closed captioning cost hurts. If we don’t caption the first episodes, we limit the broadcast possibilities for the show. Unless a station/network is exempt, like The Walk, they cannot play the show unless it is captioned.

Would the cast and crew do everything again for nothing? Maybe, but I don’t want to ask that of them. At $1000 per episode for the total personnel budget, I’m not giving anyone very much.

We could maybe scrimp on gear, again. The food and prop budgets are already small. $11,500 is what we should shoot for.

I’d love to have about $5000 per episode to use. Then we could get more of what we need, and pay everyone a more fair wage. Based on what we raised last time, $11,500 is already a God-sized goal. $35,000 is of course, within His power.

So, right now the minimum goal is $11,500 for the next 7 episodes of Peculiar.

Pre- Preproduction Time

Now is the time when I am looking at what’s next for the show. Coming up with ideas for stories. Looking for funding, locations, and such.

On the Facebook page I mentioned doing a musical episode, and got a petty enthusiastic response. I don’t think we have the resources or time to do an entire musical… but maybe one scene?

I’m also planning on taking the cast to do some local ministry. We’d film the ministry as it happens, and then have some scenes around that. That would be a good way to highlight a ministry that is doing some real world good.

Got ideas, suggestions, questions? Shoot me a message. scott@peculiarshow.com