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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. "
Freddie Wong
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" From a creative perspective, we've been very fortunate in that doing it the 'VGHS' way gave us unlimited freedom. Whatever we wanted to do, however we wanted to do it, we had that. "
Freddie Wong
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Doing
" I feel like we cheated... because you read about these other directors, just like, 'Damn! They paid dues for 10 years before they got to get behind the camera.' We cheated because technology was in the right place at the right time, and we were alive at the right age at the right time for us to take advantage of that. "
Freddie Wong
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" If it doesn't feel organic to the audience, you gotta trust your gut. "
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" Non-studio entities can experiment with storytelling that might be too niche... for a studio. "
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Studio
Experiment
Niche
" 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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World
Space
Create
" 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. "
Freddie Wong
Time
Work
Decision
" We have an audience, the ability to fund our own projects, own our own projects, the ability to display our projects unencumbered by any middlemen. That's the perfect scenario. "
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Own
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" I think if you make good, interesting content with compelling story lines and good characters, people will tune into the web for as long as you want them to. "
Freddie Wong
People
Think
Story
" The Asian male has an interesting history as far as Western appropriation. At one point, we were completely sexless Chinamen building the railroads. Then, World War II came around, and it was like, Asian guys are coming after the white women. We became a menace for a second. "
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World
Building
History
" We believe that the future for content-creators such as ourselves lies in being able to source project money from an audience and deliver on those projects in a timely and cost-effective manner. "
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Audience
Money
Believe
" Views online is a real weird and sticky subject. One view on a 30-second piece of content is not equivalent to one view on a 30 minute video. In my mind it's not quite the same thing. "
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View
Weird
Content
" A better quality of video is better for everyone. "
Freddie Wong
Quality
Video
Everyone
" We're able to push the envelope with what we're doing, both on a technical and artistic level, which is the most that any filmmaker can ask for. "
Freddie Wong
Most
Technical
Push
" I don't think a lot of people really know what goes into something that they see. "
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People
Know
Think
" Straight-up digital delivery will be the way the future works. "
Freddie Wong
Digital
Will
Future
" Thanks to Netflix and Hulu, people are getting more and more used to consuming longer stretches of content on their televisions or computer screens. "
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People
Content
More
" I'm not even very good at most video games. "
Freddie Wong
Good
Games
Even
" It's rare to find a corporate partner who encourages true creativity, but our meetings with Lionsgate's creative team convinced us that this is the right move for RocketJump and our millions of fans. "
Freddie Wong
Partner
Creative
Team
" Great visual effects serve story and character and in doing so, are, by their very definition, invisible. "
Freddie Wong
Character
Doing
Visual
" A user who essentially costs YouTube money has very little say. The way to have a say is to concretely support the creators and channels you watch directly by giving them money. "
Freddie Wong
Giving
Support
Say
" VR has a whole range of things it's very good at, and there's a lot of things that it's going to be deficient at. "
Freddie Wong
Going
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Lot
" I don't think any reasonable person would object to you, as the advertiser, having say in who and what you want to pair your ad with. "
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Your
You
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" YouTube is the place where people go to consume advertisements willingly. It's some capitalist dystopian nightmare. "
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YouTube
Place
People
" We want to be a studio that makes a whole bunch of stuff we believe in, in all ranges of scale and time and length, and own as much as that IP ourselves and generate as much of that IP ourselves as possible. "
Freddie Wong
Believe
Want
Time
" A vlog look is a very specific look, and it's basically a phone look. "
Freddie Wong
Look
Basically
Phone
" Five years is a very long time. If you think about it in terms of just people's lives, in terms of who our audience is: if you were in high school when you first saw our stuff, you're in college now. "
Freddie Wong
School
Think
Time
" As you reach more people, there is a potential to make a living with what you are creating, and that's the goal. "
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You
Potential
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" YouTube's a funny place because so many creators fall into their aesthetics out of necessity and the visuals are driven out of an urge to create. You get a lot of interesting examples of interesting design choices that have roots in practicality as well as an artistic sentiment. "
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Funny
Roots
Design
" People always ask us, 'When are you guys gonna do a movie? When are you gonna do a TV show?' And to me, that feels like such a step backwards from where are. "
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Step
People
Always
" We were looking for representation that was creatively and commercially in synch with our core DNA. The team at WME understands where we're going, and we're looking forward to taking our company to the next level with them by our side. "
Freddie Wong
Forward
Looking
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