Non-studio entities can experiment with storytelling that might be too niche… for a studio. – Freddie Wong
Great visual effects serve story and character and in doing so, are, by their very definition, invisible. – Freddie Wong
VR has a whole range of things it’s very good at, and there’s a lot of things that it’s going to be deficient at. – Freddie Wong
We take a lot of pictures with fans, and when they walk away, their parents say, ‘Who was that?’ – Freddie Wong
Shooting on location and dressing locations in Los Angeles is shockingly expensive, especially when you’re talking about webseries-level budgets, so the opportunity to build our sets in YouTube’s space gives us a lot more room in our budget in being able to create the world of ‘VGHS’ properly. – Freddie Wong
A user who essentially costs YouTube money has very little say. The way to have a say is to concretely support the creators and channels you watch directly by giving them money. – Freddie Wong
As you reach more people, there is a potential to make a living with what you are creating, and that’s the goal. – Freddie Wong
YouTube’s a funny place because so many creators fall into their aesthetics out of necessity and the visuals are driven out of an urge to create. You get a lot of interesting examples of interesting design choices that have roots in practicality as well as an artistic sentiment. – Freddie Wong
I think some people have a vague idea, but the general public has no clue what the actual behind-the-scenes of filmmaking is and what this profession is. – Freddie Wong
The goal is not to just do ‘Video Game High School’ every year. We want to grow into a real content production company. We want to be Pixar or HBO. We want to make five series a year or 10 series a year. – Freddie Wong
Five years is a very long time. If you think about it in terms of just people’s lives, in terms of who our audience is: if you were in high school when you first saw our stuff, you’re in college now. – Freddie Wong
Content financing is a difficult beast no matter what era of Hollywood we’re talking about. – Freddie Wong
Everyone talks about, ‘Get your foot in the door,’ but I never understood that mentality. Why would I want to go in that house? Why not build my own house? Why not take a chair and smash a window? – Freddie Wong
When we think about a great movie, I mean, what do we think about? We think about story, we think about character. And when the visual effects aren’t perfect, we forgive it. – Freddie Wong
If you can’t answer the question ‘What is VR adding to that experience?’ – and it should be more than just a gee-whiz thing – then that project shouldn’t be in VR. You’re not taking full advantage of your medium. – Freddie Wong
Film gives us the luxury of deciding where the viewpoint of the audience is, and by knowing that, we can very effectively design around what is actually seen on camera. – Freddie Wong
I have to credit high school for allowing us to mess around with movie stuff at a time when it was a novelty. Experimenting with that and having a very good group of friends to work with made it a very easy decision that this seemed like something I wanted to do with the rest of my life. – Freddie Wong
When we started out doing YouTube videos, I think we were very, very early on in terms of people doing a behind-the-scenes component. – Freddie Wong
I don’t think any reasonable person would object to you, as the advertiser, having say in who and what you want to pair your ad with. – Freddie Wong
A lot of people have difficulty wrapping their heads around what VR is good for. And the direction people go first is wrong. The wrong place is always: How can we do something we’ve done before, but on this? – Freddie Wong
Thanks to Netflix and Hulu, people are getting more and more used to consuming longer stretches of content on their televisions or computer screens. – Freddie Wong
Hollywood is just a bunch of middlemen, people trying to facilitate content transfer between creators and viewers. – Freddie Wong
From a creative perspective, we’ve been very fortunate in that doing it the ‘VGHS’ way gave us unlimited freedom. Whatever we wanted to do, however we wanted to do it, we had that. – Freddie Wong
We’re able to push the envelope with what we’re doing, both on a technical and artistic level, which is the most that any filmmaker can ask for. – Freddie Wong
