The panel will be live streamed from New York’s Midtown Comics and will include Robert Venditti (X-O Manowar), Fred Van Lente (Archer & Armstrong), Executive Editor Warren Simons, and Chief Creative Officer Dinesh Shamdasani.
You can interact with the greats in the chatroom during the panel, and they will be taking your questions live!
You can get a head start by tweeting your questions to @ValiantComics and @JoeyEsposito and tuning in to hear the answers!
Today seems like a Latin Music kind of Monday. So tonight Big Live is bringing you Buena Vista Social Club (1999), the story of a group of legendary Cuban musicians brought together again for a series of incredible concerts. You can watch it right here:
The Big Live/Bloody Disgusting free online screening of “Atrocious” begins at 5:30pm PST/8:30pm EST here: http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/vod/ ! It’ll be hosted in real time by BloodyDisgusting.com’s Mr. Disgusting.
Here’s a little about the show you don’t want to miss:
“In April 4th of 2010, Quintanilla family was found murdered in their country side house. Police reported the existence of 37 hours of recorded evidence. “Atrocious” shows the real images of such evidence. Quintanilla family traveled to their old farm house in Sitges, where Christian and July investigated about the Legend of the Girl in the Garraf woods. Both of them used to record all day whatever they did. On the fifth day of their arrival they were found dead under strange circumstances. ATROCIOUS shows the last five days of life for Cristian Quintanilla and his siblings. It also shows the strange situations that they lived in those moments and which remain unexplained.” Written by Fernando Barreda (Director of Atrocious)
It’s going to be a very scary night. So join us at 5:30pm PST/8:30pm EST at http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/vod/ and come prepared to be scared. Muwahahahahahahahahahahaha
Every Monday Big Live brings you an interesting morsel from the world of social media news. Today this article by Liz Shannon Miller over at Newteevee.com caught our eye: http://gigaom.com/video/facebook-web-originals/
“What’s intriguing about Facebook distribution is that it’s not really a platform tailor-made for watching video; there’s no embedding and the sharing interface is clunky. Plus, in the case of Aim High, requiring the audience to be logged-in Facebook users is an issue — while Facebook does claim to have more than 800 million active users, limiting access to viewers with Facebook accounts does mean losing a few viewers. The conventional wisdom of web content these days, after all, is that the easier it is for someone to find and watch your show, the more likely it will happen.”
We also believe that Facebook is going to be a great way to organize audiences around web series and tv shows over the next few years, but Miller has a point that Facebook’s video options are extremely limited as far as user engagement, sharing, embedding, and the like.
Good thing Big Live has a great user-friendly Facebook widget, where you can have your video playing right on your Facebook fan page, complete with a chatroom to keep viewers engaged and watching, and embed button for easy, instantaneous sharing to anywhere on the web. As always, for free. If you want one, just ask us!
Hey everyone, remember when we made a show for Megan & Liz (http://meganandliz.com/) the talented twins from Michigan? They’re singers and songwriters in their own right, and they cover all the best songs.
We just launched a widget on their Facebook page, where you can hang out, watch their videos, chat with other fans, and *sometimes* maybe even with Megan & Liz themselves!
Of course, the website is not dead. But websites, especially those that are focused on video experiences, need to engage their users with more than just an embedded video and a blurb. How do you do this? Simple. Let the viewers talk to each other about the content they’re there to see, Big Live-style.
In this 8 1/2 minute video selection, they discuss why filmmakers need to understand that the web has evolved and websites no longer exist as stand-alone experiences.
So what does this mean for filmmakers and their marketing efforts?
The construction of websites for a film or a visual narrative project traditionally has a transparent and familiar formula: Put up the trailer. Have some production stills. Include plot synopsis and cast. Tell your audience about it through traditional advertising techniques. And then, your audience will…what? Visit the site once, watch the trailer, and leave, never to return again.
However, if you think about your website as social and fluid—never static—your audience will stick around the website for a lot longer. They will have conversations with you about your project within your engaging platform. And they will share this experience with others—because you have created a worthy value exchange.
Check out their lively exchange in the video below and let us know if you agree!
Katharine Relth is the Web Producer at the International Documentary Association and the former Digital Content Editor at TribecaFilm.com. When she isn’t writing about or watching movies, she can be found discussing popular culture, riding her bike, or making jewelry. Follow her on Twitter @katharinejoann
Hear ye, hear ye, Big Live has an upcoming special event to share with you!
Bloody Disgusting (www.bloody-disgusting.com) is the place to go for everything gory, creepy, dead, and disgusting and now they’re screening a new feature length horror flick “Atrocious” on their site.
The video experience will be brought to you by Big Live (they’ll be using our video player, chat, and host functions) and the chat will be hosted by the Editor of Bloody Disgusting, Brad Miska.
So, show up at www.bloody-disgusting.com on Thursday, October 27th at8:30pm Eastern Time, 5:30pm Pacific Time.
It’s going to be very, very scary, and there will be lots to discuss in the chat with everyone else watching, so we’ll see you there!
For more info: http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/26745
Today’s VOTD is the trailer for the movie I told you about in my previous post, “Atrocious”, which Bloody Disgusting (www.bloody-disgusting.com) is screening on their site Thursday, October 27th at 8:30pmEST/5:30pmPST. Brad Miska, Editor of BD, is going to host the chat, and Big Live will be powering the whole experience.
Yes, there’s going to be a lot going on in the chatroom (even if much of it is repeated vowel patterns followed by h!) So, make yourself a note, show up, invite your Facebook friends and enjoy!
Happy Friday. If you’re going out tonight, you’ll want to look your best. Here’s Big Live’s “Look” channel, with all kinds of tips and tricks to get the look you want this Friday. Have fun, and don’t forget to invite your Facebook friends to watch with you.
