Felicia Day

Hey all!  I got up at 4am to catch a 6am flight to LA from wrapping Supernatural (an ep that will make you POOP with excitement! Well, maybe not that extreme, but it’s great). And now I’m about to get on ANOTHER plane at 5pm to go to Brisbane Australia.  THROMBOSIS AHOY!

Wanted to just remind you guys of a few things:

-If you’re in Brisbane or Adelaide, I’ll be there for the SupaNova conventions! Please come by and say hi if you’re there!

-The Guild is HALFWAY through season 6! If you haven’t watched the eps yet now is a GREAT time to catch up. Episode 6 is a monumental episode, partly because the post-production team pulled all-nighter after all-nighter to complete it. AND we have a lovely Guest Star iJustine who joins us for the rest of the season, so please let me know how you like it!

-Two really awesome shows, Space Janitors (a comedy) and On the Table (a Tabletop news show) are premiering on Geek and Sundry next week. If you like our stuff please subscribe, those numbers are going to be very important for us for renewal. I know we had a FLOOD of content earlier this year, but now we’ve learned how to moderate our release schedules, so your sub box will be more gently handled on our end from now on

-The Flog is back as well after hiatus, there are a few eps you can check out on THIS playlist:

-My Instagram web profile is up at http://instagram.com/feliciaday. I need to take more landscape photos

-I’m looking to update my web page design, what would you guys like to see on it that’s not here? What is the function of a personal web site nowadays anyway?

Annnnnnd that’s it! I’ll see you guys down under, or online!

Episode 2 is here!  This was a very hard episode to edit, namely because of the scourge of film shooting: TABLE SCENES.  You’d think, “Everyone sitting around a table, that’s the easiest scene, right?” OMG NOOOO.  For every person around that table, you have to have an eyeline between any characters that speak, that means WAY more setups of the camera position than you’d ever think. And if someone moves?  MORE EYELINES!  We actually shot this scene after shooting the HUGE steadi-cam entrance to The Game scene from episode 1, so frankly: That was a bitch of a day.

BUT it all turned out well, Roy (Derek) is such a great character, I want more of him onscreen every time I see him.  I actually rewrote this episode many different ways, but had to cut a bunch out.  Because, as important as the Game Team is, it’s really about our main characters, so exploring who the new people are had to be spread out a lot more than I initially thought to balance the Guild stories properly.  I think this season will actually work the best as a movie of all the seasons in the end, but making sure every episode felt full was a goal as well.

I love to read comments from people on the video about how ‘short’ the episodes are, because they discovered the show by watching episodes back to back, or even cut together as a movie on Geek and Sundry or Netflix.  The irony is that when we started the show, there was a rule in the very young industry that videos shouldn’t be longer than 2-3 minutes, MAX (the length of episode 1 season 1!).  We push the budget envelope with our script every year, and this year it is 100% the longest script we ever shot: On LESS budget actually.  SO, it’s a big compliment but also very frustrating to have people want much longer episodes.  The great thing is: this one is almost 10 minutes!!!  Next week is shorter, but has hysterical stuff, so I hope you enjoy!

The Guild season 6 episode 1 is now LIVE on Geek and Sundry!

What to say about this episode…ack. It was the season that never should have been, really! We did 4 amazing seasons with Xbox/MSN, who were fantastic partners, and then their business model changed and The Guild didn’t have a home. I guess my fighting to keep ownership of the show was really to make THIS season, because when I approached YouTube about putting season 6 into the Geek and Sundry lineup, I had all the rights to do so. Most creators could never move their show from platform to platform like this, so I am incredibly lucky that I’m stubborn haha.

This episode was so hard to write. Strangely this season was the reverse of all other seasons: the last half was much easier to write than the first half. Writing is never the same each time they say, and per this season: that is 100% true. I had the shortest amount of time to write this season as well, and it’s the longest script, so BOY did I have a difficult summer. But when you start casting and getting locations and seeing new actors on set, wow that’s when you realize WHY you go to all that hard work. Because you’re MAKING SOMETHING!

There are TONS of BTS pieces this season, check this Guild Season 6 Extras playlist for the most comprehensive view into making a web series ever haha.

I am so thrilled to make another season for you guys, and really hope you enjoy. If you like our show and our channel please LIKE the video and spread word. We are still indie after all these years

The Guild Season 6 trailer is HERE! Please spread word that we’re coming back October 2nd, every share helps us! YAY SO EXCITED TO BE BACK!!!!!