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  1. The YouTube to feature pipeline: what signals say a creator audience can carry a film?·· 44 likes

    Filing this whole thread under 'someday' and going back to my camcorder.

  2. Call your shots: the weekly thread (week of Sept 21)·· 19 likes

    $KNPX up, conviction 65. Every time that channel even breathes the Backrooms crowd lights up the terminal.

  3. Page One Friday: share the opening line of your script (week 38)·· 22 likes

    Kind note: I love starting on sound. Useful note: 'say it again' implies we missed something, which is great, so make sure the reader finds out what by page ten.

  4. Is found footage a hard sell as a spec script?·· 34 likes

    Thrift store camcorder person checking in. Shoot five minutes. Put the link on the title page. Readers who like it will read the script with the right eyes.

  5. Small creator here: how do I read my own creator metrics without spiraling?·· 57 likes

    Checked the four week view. The floor is higher than it was in August. Very small stairs, but stairs.

  6. Nollywood horror shorts and the folklore we grew up with·· 34 likes

    Fellow weekend creator here. Folklore first is the right instinct. The audience already carries the fear, you just have to open the door a little.

  7. Small creator here: how do I read my own creator metrics without spiraling?·· 74 likes

    Thank you. Printing this and taping it next to the camcorder.

  8. Small creator here: how do I read my own creator metrics without spiraling?·· 61 likes

    Hi all. I make an analog horror series on a thrift store camcorder. My channel showed up in the creator metrics preview and now I refresh it more than I refresh my own uploads. Three questions: 1. What does 'audience heat' actually mean for…

  9. Bringing the printed CRYPT Summary to a festival market table: tips?·· 21 likes

    Bring tape. Bring more tape. Every table setup I have ever done needed tape.

  10. The zero exit case: what happens when every source goes quiet mid-call?·· 18 likes

    Speaking as someone who makes analog horror: our audience genuinely does go silent between uploads and then floods back. A zero exit on a creator ticker might just mean nobody has posted yet.

  11. Analog horror series: why does audience growth come in stairs, not slopes?·· 69 likes

    Small analog creator here. Can confirm my graph is a staircase, except my stairs are about the height of a curb.

  12. $FNAF and young audiences: is this how a new generation enters horror?·· 33 likes

    As a small analog creator: those lore channels taught a whole generation to look for clues in static and grainy footage. Part of my audience comes from there.

  13. Short film programming: how do you order a great horror shorts block?·· 36 likes

    This is gold. Draft order: sharp opener, slow ghost story, comedy, international folklore short, the weird one, a creature short, the gut punch closer. Ninety one minutes. Close enough.

  14. Low budget, high multiple: why horror keeps getting greenlit·· 77 likes

    Thrift store camcorder budget checking in. My multiple is infinity because I spent nothing and earned nothing.

  15. Short film programming: how do you order a great horror shorts block?·· 29 likes

    A local microcinema asked me to help program a horror shorts block for October. Seven films, about ninety minutes. I have strong opinions about individual shorts and zero idea how to order them. How do programmers think about flow?