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Hitman 101 is an action packed character oriented web series with a lot of production value. The show is probably the most relevant to this blog of all previous shows featured on #WebSeriesWednesday as the series is dramatic and the characters have real depth.
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‘Lambent Fuse’ is an Independent film released onto the festival circuit late last year, selling out the Twin Cities Film Festival and winning Best Dramatic Feature at the Highway 61 Film Festival. I recently had the chance to see the movie and chat with the film’s director Matt Cici. What I was most interested in was finding out how the production team made their limited funds go so far on screen.
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For the first ever #WebSeriesWednesday I viewed Mermates, a show about a man who gets kicked out by his girlfriend (for watching a season ahead of her in Breaking Bad – big time no no) and ends up moving in with an everted Mermaid (mer-man?) - human on the outside, fish on the inside.
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So you have a great idea, you wrote your script, you found a few friends to help you out and you went out and made a web series. Now you are wondering, how do I find an audience? Here I look at the upcoming web series ‘One Warm Night’ to find out how they have built up an audience prior to the shows release.
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Introducing #WebSeriesWednesday where every Wednesday at noon pacific time I will view a full season web series and live tweet my thoughts over on Twitter. You can follow along by following @SnobbyRobot. Afterwards I’ll be uploading a more detailed article to the blog. I’m opened to suggestions about which shows are featured so please give me some!! What do you guys want me to watch?
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Deep beneath this rugged, snobby exterior lives a gentile, emotional, nuggety core ripe with feelings. Feelings and other icky things like love, and empathy – you know those types of things that lead to tears that run down your face and ruin your makeup make you look sunburned. Although rare, there is the occasional moment in a film, or a show, or even a game where something about the story is written so perfectly that I connect with it deep within said nuggety core – and the tears flow. Here I will examine those moments, and train you to force me to connect with my female side more often. Oh ya, and spoilers!
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When you decide to watch a web series how much do you usually watch? When Youtube launched back in 2005 videos had a maximum length of ten minutes, and traditionally shorter videos had an easier time capturing more viewers. Two weeks ago the Kony 2012 documentary shattered viral records despite being a half hour long. Short form is the environment viral videos and web series have grown up in, but before they can really mature they might first need to leave the nest.
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This is the third article in a series seeking to look at examples of great writing in modern media with the hope of learning a little something more about telling entertaining stories. For those who are not in the storytelling business hopefully this series will tune you in to something you may not be aware of, or increase your appreciation of something you already are. Today I want to discuss a little known film called ‘Breaker Morant.’ This Australian film from 1980, about the Boer War in South Africa in 1901, is an amazing example of what I would call ‘timeless storytelling.’
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The web is choc full of comedic web series and shorts. Some are funny, most are not, but as I discussed previously, it is easier to be funny on the web. Creating characters and drama is difficult when you have little time. That said a web series has potential for great characters, yet I have not been able to find many people up to the task. So I’d like to ask you guys, what are you working on? Have you found decent online dramas? Where and what are they?
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I have recently talked a lot about great writing in modern media, using Mad Men and Battlestar Galactica as examples. Today I want to look at one of the core aspects of those articles - Character - but I want to do so in light of my last post - a discussion on the impacts of technology and business on entertainment.
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It can be easy to forget sometimes that ‘entertainment’ does not live in a vacuum. Entertainment is a group of industries that meet at the intersection of business, technology and leisure. For most of us - or at least those likely to read this blog - we are aspiring actors, writers, filmmakers, musicians, or entrepreneurs and with such a strong focus it can be difficult to really see the big picture. Where is all of this heading? In many ways that is the question The Snobby Robot seeks to answer. Obviously this is a very broad subject, but looking broadly there are some very real changes I see taking place currently which will continue to expand in the future.
