As a great compliment — whether planned or not — to Marc Schiller’s recent post on Current Trends On Indie Film Online Marketing And Distribution, VHX has released a nicely present set of stats on their platform including:
You have to check it out if you are in the Indie Film Biz.
By Christina Kallas
So should we be discussing TV series as nothing less than long cinematic narratives? And if so, what would that mean? It is fair to say that TV, just half the age of film, has only recently (perhaps in the last 15 years) come into its own. Writers have only recently learned to take advantage of the unique powers of the medium itself. For years the focus was on each episode being a complete story, a standalone. Not only in procedurals but in series generally, the dramatic focus was on the unit of the episode. A TV episode was a mini-movie (much as a web episode is a mini-TV episode now). Then the primary canvas of the TV medium became the season.
