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

"PUNK IN THE TRUNK"

Brian Maris, LA

SECOND PLACE

THE CHRONICLES OF KENDALL

"PFEFFERNEUSE AND MYSTERY"

Kendall Wells, OR

THIRD PLACE

WOMEN OF WILL

Dawn "Sam" Alden, LA, CA

BEST COMEDY

BEST ACTION SEQUENCE

HOTTEST FEMALE VAMPIRE

"PUNK IN THE TRUNK"

Brian Maris, LA

HONORABLE MENTION

ACTING, STORY & PRODUCTION VALUE

AMONG US

Steven Vargas, LA

ACTION

VAMPIRE BITES DREAM

Ned Donovan, NY

COMEDY

VAMPIRIC ORDER

David Vaillancourt, LA

YOUTUBE HITS

TAX TIME

Chris Fields & Anthony Chan, FL

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

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A8B5D8476EB7EAC0

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.

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

The Hunted episodes are in! And they've got the weekend to tally as many hits as they can! http://ping.fm/pkj8W

SLAYERCON BABY!

Yep, the "SlayerCon" episode is coming together extremely fast and it's turning into quite the event!  What was supposed to be our month for prepping The Hunted feature film with a quick pit-stop at a small newbie convention has become an epic episode with talent from around the world descending on a mega-con that will surely dwarf the sleepy little town of Las Vegas.

Thanks to the convention organizers, Tim Ruzicki and Jared Kirby, The Hunted had been given permission to run rampant over Combat Con - shooting at panels, demos, and virtually everywhere within the Nevada state limits.  What's more, we had a buncha eager volunteers and Hunted affiliates from around the country coming to this thing who are willing to do whatever our twisted little minds came up with.

I definitely didn't want this to distract from work on the feature (which has just been successfully funded thanks to Kickstarter).  But then I realized at some point that it was easier to allow all this energy to happen rather than trying to keep it contained.  And it was an opportunity not to be missed

So here we go.  I came up with a basic story premise that Combat Con was a front for a slayer convention which Bob and Kevin (Andrew Helm) were invited.  After driving out through the desert whilst surviving a few adventures along the way, they arrive at SlayerCon only to find out that the convention is being sponsored by head vampire bad guy Vincent Marlowe (Anthony DeLongis) who's marketing something called "SlayerAde".  The drink is supposed to give slayers enhanced strength and speed, but results may vary, and comedy ensues.

So while Tex Wall is cranking out pages of the feature film script, Andrew Helm has taken it upon himself to pen The Hunted episode known as SLAYERCON, which is now a 2 part, 20 minute epic!

In preparation for the episode, we've asked anyone who would like to participate sign into our Facebook Event.  We've also begun toying with some transmedia ideas, creating a site for www.slayercon.com and www.slayerade.com.  And we've gone a bit crazy on the marketing and we've ordered 200 bottles of "Slayerade" and a huge "Slayerade" banner with hats and t-shirts.  Oh, and I just ordered 3 sexy nurse outfits.  And yes, those are also for the episode.

We've also ordered a big Hunted banner and 1000 buttons in preparation for Combat Con and other upcoming conventions such as the San Diego Comic Con in July.  And plans for Comic Con are a whole other story.  We're working on an ARG (alternate reality game) that will have fans track down and slay a vampire at the con for the chance to win a walk-on role in the feature film. 

Now I just have to find a source for good inflatable swords...

Headed to CombatCon in Vegas? Want to be in the next Hunted episode? http://ping.fm/H46yU

Told to me by Elan Lee of Fourth Wall Studios: "if you can figure out how to make UGC work, you'd be turning straw into gold!"

New Hunted episodes for the $1000 Youtube Contest are rolling in, and we've got some awesome entries! Check 'em out at http://ping.fm/mCmbY