Developing a Web Series Around Your Travels

Erica Hargreave shares what she has learned in the past year with the release of Season 1 of her documentary web series, Naturally Ours, shot on Salt Spring Island. She'll discuss everything from how she and her team shot the series, their strategy in releasing it, building a niche audience to the series, and her team's strategy as they look at funding and distribution on future seasons of the series.

About Erica

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Erica Hargreave, the Founder and Creative Head of Ahimsa Media (http://ahimsamedia.com/) and Roamancing (http://roamancing.com/), specializes in creating cross-platform media and immersive storyworlds. In fact, she's been doing this before there were terms for this form of storytelling, which led her to create of one of the first digital / transmedia storytelling companies.

Over the years, she has written for TV, magazines, books, the web and the education sector. She's worked as a creative producer for TV and theatre, directed, and starred in her own TV Show. Ultimately the adventures she's had led her to create the digital travel and culture magazine, Roamancing. Her goal with Roamancing is to uncover the beauty around the world and increase cultural understanding. Erica and her team are currently developing a web series to do just that.

Season 1 of Naturally Ours (http://roamancing.com/naturally-ours/), a documentary web series on parks and the people they inspire, was shot on Salt Spring Island. It has won Best Documentary for the full version at a film festival in Romania, and has been nominated for a number of other awards in Canada, Germany and Italy.

Erica also loves helping others to craft their storyworlds, and build and engage niche communities around their stories. This is something she teaches in her online courses at BCIT in Social Media Storytelling (http://storytogo.ca/bcit-media-storytelling-department/courses/online-courses/social-media-storytelling-bcst-1193/) and Building & Engaging Communities (http://storytogo.ca/professional-development/building-and-engaging-communities-bcst-1073/).

About our sponsor, the BC Association of Travel Writers

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The BC Association of Travel Writers promotes, encourages and supports B.C.-based travel journalists, bloggers and videographers. We do this by:

– presenting a platform for our members to network in the common cause of promoting the profession.

– maintaining a policy of ethics, honesty and excellence of work in dealing with the media and the industry.

– upholding the principle of producing proper material for clients in return for complimentary courtesies and press trips offered by the industry.

– disseminating information and potential markets with the membership.

– providing educational and experiential opportunities to help members improve the professional skills and contacts needed to succeed in the ever-changing marketplace

Become a Member of BCATW at http://bcatw.org/become-a-bcatw-member!

About Red Truck Brewery

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Upstairs, beyond the hustle and bustle of the Red Truck tasting room, and overlooking the guts of the brewery, is a quiet and self-contained boardroom where we have self-served beer as well as food service.

Red Truck brewery is an easy 5 minute walk from the Science World Skytrain station, and also has ample parking.

About RSVPs

As this is a smaller venue, we ask that all RSVPs be firm. Meetup members with a history of no-shows will be placed on the Wait list to allow engaged members to attend.