College Life

College Life is a 9-part original web series, produced by Tangible Productions, and released from August 23, 2013, through March 14, 2014.

Concept & Development
College Life was created in Fall 2012, even before Tangible Productions became an official student organization at the University of Florida. Series creators John Barton and Ben Heuser laid groundwork for the original 5 main characters and some overall plot lines and even wrote the pilot episode of the series that fall.

Casting
The casting for College Life proved more difficult than anticipated - of the original cast, Ben Schwaller as Emmett Lloyd is the only casting to survive to the final casting. Two actors (originally meant to play Ely and Alex) dropped out of the project before filming began due to external circumstances, and the role of James Ryan was recast after filming of the pilot was completed, meaning that most of the first episode had to be reshot. Elysse Rantanen was originally cast as Ely Olivette, but when John Barton and Ben Heuser met Katie Bonti, they saw instantly that she would be able to play the role of Ely and moved Elysse to the role of Ayla.
 * Katie Bonti as Ely Olivette
 * Ben Schwaller as Emmett Lloyd
 * John Barton as James Ryan
 * Elysse Rantanen as Ayla Batari (first 4 episodes)
 * Jordan Lannon as Alex Madison

Trivia

 * College Life was Tangible's first long-form project. It is the first scripted series the channel has released.