Web creators are on a roll as this week’s #WebSeriesWednesday featured yet another awesome piece of work!

My biggest criticism of ’00c6′ is the name, I keep having to double check if that’s right, and I’m still not capable of remembering it (I can be a little slow). From a marketing perspective that could be an issue, but in terms of the product offering I am definitely buying.

So what is ’00c6?’ It’s one of those new fangled transmedia projects which creator Marco Sparmberg describes as being ‘in beta.’ Currently the sci-fi project contains a first season web series, and some secret tumblr pages with additional character and universe information. The hope is for the project to be able to grow with its audience – something it is definitely set up to do.

The series is filmed in Hong Kong and set in a dystopian future that exaggerates, yet reflects, one of the major social issues facing China today. The show portrays a company sought out by desperate men seeking a lone encounter with a woman, via a trip to an isolated outlying island.

The absolute best thing about ’00c6′ is that virtually nothing beyond that basic premise is spoon fed to the audience. The main character awakes in a state of confusion and so too does the audience, so simultaneously we put together the pieces. Something that I love, and something that was apparently made into a bit of criticism by others is the complete lack of dialogue. This is 100% pure visual storytelling – an absolute breath of fresh air in a sea of shows overly reliant on exposition. We see and experience what the character sees, and when we aren’t capable of feeling how the characters feel, we are shown in a way that tells us. More often than not it is restraint in directly explaining things to your audience that works best. I’d rather a viewer interpret a film ‘incorrectly’ than not have to at all.

Despite the lack of dialogue ’00c6′ is one of the more clever stories I’ve had the pleasure of seeing on #WebSeriesWednesday. It’s visual style and open-ended-ness lends itself to analysis and speculation well – something I find absolutely vital towards creating a franchise capable of real growth. If your audience doesn’t finish your film with questions to ask or opinions to be debated, then they simply move on. A series like ’00c6′ brings up a lot of questions and is opened to a lot of thematic interpretations worthy of lengthy message board posts and heated discussions. This is exactly what you want and something I very rarely can say when writing this column.

If we were to see a season two of the show I would like to see something completely different. The same world but from an entirely different angle, the less predictable the better. It’s one of those shows that seems to thrive on the unknown and the ambiguous, something that is lost when you give in and explain everything in detail.

Beyond the big picture there are a lot of amazing little details production wise that really impressed me. This is not one of those static camera, story first, visuals and sound second type series. First, the locations are amazing – I thought some of them weren’t real but Marco swears the tower is a real structure so I don’t know anything anymore. I thought the fog was just a brilliant thing to add in – in post – but Marco could not keep himself from complaining about the fog getting in the way of his beautiful vistas. Sigh. This show cannot possibly be the first to shoot a scene in primarily one shot with the camera spinning around directly on the axis of a tripod, but I can’t think of ever seeing it before (citations more than welcome). Even more brilliance in using the art of the unknown. And while we’re here in this paragraph, big ‘props’ go out for seemingly going entirely without location audio recording. Oh ya, the editing quality as well.

’00c6′ comes highly recommended. Go watch it now (it’s not all that long either), and be sure to follow along with them so we can find out what’s next! Oh and be sure to check out Marco’s other series, previously covered on here, Squattertown.