31: The Series Ep.12 “Transmission 12″ | A Web Series Review on the Watch List

A Horror Web Series

3 Swirlies

“They’ll come anyway.”

Looks like we’re getting somewhere.

The two trapped people finally make some sort of real attempt to get themselves out.

Having good thumbnails for your episodes is very important, and for a show like this that can be a problem. Most of the thumbnails are just largely black screens. It an be tough to construct your video to capture the best possible thumbnails. YouTube picks three at more or less random parts from the beginning, middle and end of your episodes, to avoid people placing a misleading image at the one frame they know YouTube grabs the thumbnail from. But it means that legitimate users have a harder time getting a thumbnail that best promotes their show.

It can be especially tough for a web series like this one, where every episode looks pretty much like the one before. I’m not sure that is in and of itself a bad thing, but it does make it difficult to convince someone who sees your thumbnails in the “related videos” sidebar to click on your video and watch it. Especially if more than one of your video shows up but they all look the same.

This series relied heavily on the audio - there’s almost no visual information. We’re still inside that box.

This isn’t actually a poorly done web series. My biggest complaint is that the format, the 31 second length, seems to be a drag on the story. I mentioned earlier, I feel like the same creative team telling the same story, but in five minute chucks instead of 31 second chunks, more would happen in the same time.

Or maybe it wouldn’t.

From YouTube Description:

31 the series: 31 episodes. 31 seconds. 31 days. Transmissions begin 3/31 3:31pm ET.
31 web series: 1st daily Internet Horror Serial combining best of film, tv, and the Internet.
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