Lunch with Hayden Black

Hayden Black is a writer, actor, voice over artist and a damned funny comedian. He was creator/producer of Goodnight Burbank when I first interviewed him for the Digital Production BuZZ/ Since then he’s gone on to produce Abigail’s Teen Diary & Teensy Tweets. You can catch him on BBC America’s The Brit List and daily on Yahoo!’s “Who Knew?” He can be contacted on Twitter as @HaydenBlack, or follow @Gen_Zed.

Introduction to Gen Zed  0’ 24”

Writing projects  1’ 54”

Career Start  2’ 15”

Reaction to the Gen Zed trailer  5’ 21”

Being ‘Internet Famous’  6’ 32”

Changing the social dialog  6’ 45″

Gen Zed voice cast  8’ 52”

Goodnight Burbank  9’ 43”

How bad television gets made  12’ 58”

Being an outsider  15’ 53”

Producing outside the mainstream  19” 17’

Hayden’s business model  20’ 50”

Philip’s production history  21’ 49”

Lumberjack background  23’ 08”

Sponsorship?  23’ 47”

The GoPros in production  24’ 35”

4K  25’ 17”

Storytelling for social change  27’ 06”

Racism and homophobia  27’ 30”

The power of comedy  34’ 03”

Advice to your younger self?  36’ 16”

Biggest changes during your career  39’ 28”

The explosion of content being produced  41’ 17”

3D animation for Gen Zed  42’ 18”

How to produce Gen Zed without money  46’ 23”

How to fund the marketing?  48’ 20”

New media, new business models  49’ 06”

What changes do you expect in the remainder of your career?  50’ 32”

Future changes in society or technology?  53’ 40”

The dark responses to Gen Zed  55’ 23”

Are you positive or negative about the future? 59’ 23”