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" A better quality of video is better for everyone. "
Freddie Wong
Quality
Video
Everyone
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" The Lionsgate deal came at an opportune time. It allows us to get our projects financed and create long-form content without needing to be reliant on brand deals or crowdsourcing for external financing. "
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" When we started doing YouTube, the goal was, hey, let's make stuff that we want to see, that entertains us. "
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" Online is another way for all of us to reach people. "
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" People predicted in the 1910s that live theater was going to be all gone and that we'd just be watching movies. No, live theater is still around, because it does things that are specific to it. "
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" Deep engagement is much more powerful and valuable than fleeting mass market engagement. "
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" I have to credit high school for allowing us to mess around with movie stuff at a time when it was a novelty. Experimenting with that and having a very good group of friends to work with made it a very easy decision that this seemed like something I wanted to do with the rest of my life. "
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" While it's easy to sit back and cherry pick bad visual effects and blame the industry for making movies the way they are, you're really not seeing the whole picture. "
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" I want to see more people push what it means to be a web show... because it's very difficult to make a living making those types of shows. "
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" Venture capitalists don't pay attention to you unless you have an app or a widget. "
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" Visual effects have always been a part of this art form. And CG is simply a tool on the filmmaker's tool belt to tell a story, but when the end result is bad - maybe it's not the tool's fault. "
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" Shooting on location and dressing locations in Los Angeles is shockingly expensive, especially when you're talking about webseries-level budgets, so the opportunity to build our sets in YouTube's space gives us a lot more room in our budget in being able to create the world of 'VGHS' properly. "
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