Feature seriesComedy seriesSketch seriesShort-form TV seriesAnthology seriesBranded seriesDocu-seriesWeb shows These are the most popular formats of digital series that Rose of Dolls discovered while doing research for her PhD thesis 'Web Series: The Audiovisual (R)evolution'. She defines all these formats in detail in this concluding master class that she delivered for the audiovisual storytelling lab PATYS.

What is the most popular genre of digital series?What are the best platforms for distribution of your web series?What are the best ways to promote your web series?What is the optimal production budget per webisode? The Founding Director of Bilbao Seriesland Rose of Dolls covers all of this and more in this episode of PATYS!

What kind of people create web series? The Founding Director of Bilbao Seriesland Rose of Dolls paints a pretty vivid picture!

The Founding Director of Bilbao Seriesland Rose of Dolls shares a few useful tips on how to make your web series stand out among numerous entries to international webfests.

The Web Series World Cup is dedicated to supporting, promoting and archiving the best serialized short form programs of the world. It collects results from the best webfests around the globe and throughout the year regularly publishes rankings of the most awarded web series providing the audience with an up to date listing of the best programs of the moment. The Web Series World Cup publishes rankings every month and, at the end of every season, crowns the most awarded programs in the circuit. In this lecture, a distinguished web series creator from the Basque Country, Rose of Dolls, discusses international webfests that are part of the Web Series World Cup circuit.

What are web series and how have they come to exist? Learn from the Spanish web series creator Rose of Dolls, the only person in the world who has defended a doctoral thesis on web series!

So many negotiations fall apart simply because the parties fail to speak the same language. Set yourself up for success in film industry and learn the essential vocabulary of film distribution from the Ukrainian producer and distributor Olga Zhurzhenko.

Film distribution, if done right, should lead you to making money off of your film. The Ukrainian producer and distributor Olga Zhurzhenko explains how to turn your film distribution into a profitable venture.

Writing an effective synopsis is an art form in itself. Your synopsis should give your audience a reason to watch your work. The Ukrainian producer and distributor Olga Zhurzhenko has a tip on how to accomplish that.

Film distribution is hard work that can be overwhelming for one person. You don't have to do it alone! Learn from the Ukraine producer and distributor Olga Zhurzhenko how to involve all your crew into this process.

Let's say your film was screened at a festival and the audience loved it. What will they want to do immediately after the screening? Talk to you! But they won't be able to do that if they cannot recognise you from your photo in the festival's catalogue. Seems like a no-brainer. And yet, festivals' catalogues are ridden with dated or simply low-quality photos of directors and producers. The Ukrainian producer Olga Zhurzhenko begs you not to make this mistake!

The Ukrainian producer and distributor Olga Zhurzhenko explains why it is important to start thinking about distribution of your film as soon as you start filming it!

So you've made a film! Congratulations! But what's next? What do you do to bring it to an audience as wide as possible? The Ukrainian film producer and distributor Olga Zhurzhenko has a few tips for you!

'Technology is not always as alienating as it seems. It’s a question to what ends you put your artistic practice', such is Douglas Quin's introduction of Paradise, a gestural instrument that one can play by moving through the space. The instrument consists of 25 loud speakers and motion trackers that trigger sounds as people move through the venue where the instrument is installed. This way, the public has an opportunity to play with a bank of thousands of sounds that don’t belong together in the natural world, but come together in the virtual paradise created by Douglas Quin and Lorne Convington who are inviting us to make art together.

'Despite the rumours, radio is alive and kicking!', Douglas Quin optimistically and fondly refers to the medium that has been an integral part of his rich artistic life. He calls radio the theatre of mind and is convinced that podcasting is just its inheritor. 'We shouldn’t get hung up on the technology, though. Instead, we should focus on what is it that we’re saying since we’ve got these tools', he adds and generously shares a few examples of experimental and innovative programming that he was commissioned to create for French, German, and American radio stations. Long live radio!

‘For immigrants, the way to make it in America was through education’, Douglas Quin explains why education is such an important part of his life and career. ‘You never stop having mentors and you always welcome having students. This give-and-take shapes your entire life’, he adds. In Ep. 4 of The Sound of Things, Douglas Quin talks about the influence of many different educational systems on him as a sound artist as well as sharing his artistry with his students.

'Listening is born of silence', says Douglas Quin who has traveled widely documenting the natural soundscape - from Antarctic ice to Arctic tundra and from African savannah to Amazon rainforest - for the past 30 years. His recordings of endangered and disappearing habitats represent one of the most unique and extensive collections anywhere. In Ep. 3 of The Sound of Things, Quin reflects on being a steward of sounds whose mission is to connect people with something precious and beautiful that they have lost.

"The best reaction to my music would be: ‘Jeez, I think I’m going to head out for a walk!'", reveals Douglas Quin in Ep. 2 of the Sound of Things where he talks about the influence of John Cage and musique concrète on him as a composer, writing music for the Kronos Quartet and Cirque du Soleil's Suzie Gagnon, and looking for answers to eternal questions such as 'What is music?' and 'What role does it play as a social interaction?'.

Douglas Quin discusses his work as a sound designer  and a composer on two very different films: the Hollywood blockbuster Jurassic Park III and an indie by Edward A. Burger, The Mountain Path. He also shares a few valuable tips for those who want to have a successful career of the sound designer in international film industry.