Greetings Entreprenerds!
My guest this week is Ian Lang, the co-creator and star of Red Hood: The Fan Series. Ian’s CD828 Studios and Tim Kou’s Method 2 Madness Films are co-producing the show featuring Red Hood in an original story with an original villain. Jason Todd will be joined by other members of the Bat-family including Nightwing, Damien Wayne, and Red Robin.
The first episode will premiere on YouTube on May 18th and you can follow them now for trailers and behind the scenes features.
In this episode we discuss:
- 3:00 How Red Hood: The Fan Series got started
- 12:00 Why they decided to fund the series themselves vs crowdfunding
- 15:45 Cosplaying and building the costumes for the series
- 21:30 How the series was filmed
- 25:00 How the fights were choreographed and filmed
- 29:15 Promoting the web series and building an audience on social media and at conventions
- 38:30 Cosplay and promoting the series at C2E2 2018
- 49:30 Tackle your passion project, even if it fails
Be sure to follow Red Hood: The Fan Series on YouTube so you can see the first episode when it comes out May 18th and follow them on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Also make sure to follow @CD828Studios and @Method2MadnessFilms for more updates on this and future projects.
I’d really appreciate any feedback either on Twitter @UndertheCapes, in the blog comments or through a rating on iTunes or Stitcher. Thanks and see you soon!