Thursday, June 23, 2011

Once again, if you're going to SlayerCon and want to be in an awesome Hunted episode, check our FB event: http://ping.fm/CET0F
Screening at SlayerCon will include the winning Hunted episodes "Women of Will", "Pfefferneuse", and "Punk in the Trunk!"
Packin' for Vegas baby! Slayercon, here we come!! http://ping.fm/xOR9s

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Brian Maris (Bloodsucker Punch) is looking for vamps for a shoot next Sunday at 6pm in Hollywood: http://ping.fm/ueQz2
The results are in for The Hunted Third Annual $1000 Youtube Contest! http://ping.fm/cwciF

The Hunted Third Annual $1000 Youtube Contest Results!

The results of The Hunted Third Annual $1000 Youtube Contest are in! Damn, we had some awesome entries, and I want to thank everyone for their hard work! You guys are the ones keeping this show going and I'd gladly sponsor all the episodes if we had the budget.

I also want to thank our judges for taking the time out of their busy schedules to watch all the entries (about 3 hours of material). Once again, our judges included: Fight Coordinator Richard Ryan (Dark Knight), Writer & Executive Producer Gillian Horvath (Highlander), KSR Action Aces Agent Michelle Braverman, Swordmaster Anthony DeLongis (Fearless), Writer / Critic Abbie Bernstein, Director Sean Becker (The Guild), and Casting Director Katie Taylor.

Remember that episodes were judged based on ALL criteria including acting, action, story, production value, comedy, and Youtube hits, and while there were episodes that had the best scores in a select category, it was the episodes that averaged best in all categories that made for the best overall Hunted episode!

This year, our affiliates totally kicked ass! Unfortunately, they also wiped out any competition by entering multiple episodes. So in the interest of encouraging new content and not sending the competition running for the hills, our winning affiliates have agreed that contests should allow for multiple entries, but there would be a single winner in each category (first, second and third place). It's like a track and field event where they keep the best score out of three. My plan is to eventually have a sponsor for our affiliates so they don't even have to compete.

So here are the results. Once again, congrats guys!

FIRST PLACE
BLOOD SUCKER PUNCH
Brian Maris, LA

SECOND PLACE
THE CHRONICLES OF KENDALL
Kendall Wells, OR

THIRD PLACE
Dawn "Sam" Alden, LA, CA

BEST COMEDY
BEST ACTION SEQUENCE
HOTTEST FEMALE VAMPIRE
Brian Maris, LA


HONORABLE MENTION

ACTING, STORY & PRODUCTION VALUE
Steven Vargas, LA

ACTION
Ned Donovan, NY

COMEDY
David Vaillancourt, LA

YOUTUBE HITS
Chris Fields & Anthony Chan, FL


All entries along with the winning episodes can be viewed online at



JUDGING STATS:
A panel of eight judges rated each episode on acting, action, story, production value and comedy. Judges were instructed on the scale, which ranged from 1 to 10, with “1 being poor, and 10 being awesome”. The scoring sheets from each judge were then tabulated and each episode was given a summary score on each criteria by averaging across all judges, and an overall score, which consisted of a master average across all criteria. Youtube totals were calculated based on total number of views and distributed among a scale of 1-10 based on the top number of hits for an episode.

Monday, June 20, 2011

Results for The Hunted $1000 Youtube contest are still coming in. Hoping to announce the winners later tonight!