LUNCHTIME WATCHALONG - Rental Boys - RTÉ STORYLAND

Fourth and final of the 4 shows through to the next round of RTÉ STORYLAND...

HappySlapper
Hardy Bucks
Psych Ward
Rental Boys


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Today it's the second ep from RENTAL BOYS.

Couldn't find Episode 2 on the net other than on the RTE Storyland site itself.

Here's the Promo for Episode 2 of Rental Boys



And... a promo for the next episode -- Episode 3





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There's a poll on the sidebar on the top right hand side of this site for an idea of who everyone here thinks should win.


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LUNCHTIME WATCHALONG - PsychWard - RTE STORYLAND

Third of the 4 shows through to the next round of RTÉ STORYLAND...

HappySlapper
Hardy Bucks
Psych Ward
Rental Boys


CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS ON RTÉ STORYLAND.





Today it's the second ep from PSYCH WARD.


Psych Ward Episode 2

The second episode of Psych Ward, an online drama series commissioned as part of RTE's Storyland project. Psych Ward is the story of a young psychiatrist who works in a hospital in Dublin.

Psych Ward - Episode 2 Promo




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LUNCHTIME WATCHALONG - Hardy Bucks - RTE STORYLAND

Second of 4 shows through to the next round of RTÉ STORYLAND...
HappySlapper
Hardy Bucks
Psych Ward
Rental Boys


CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS ON RTÉ STORYLAND.





Today it's the second ep from HARDY BUCKS.

(In two vids -- longer version than the RTE release? -- and the Hardy Bucks saga began with 3 eps before Storyland, so it's now up to Episode 5.)

Hardy Bucks Ep5: Foamy Nites: Part1




Hardy Bucks Ep 5: Foamy Nites: Part2




Gym'n it up for votes




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Convergence Event Tomorrow (28 May) in UK Midlands

Forgot to mention -- speaking tomorrow at this event organised by EM Media in the Midlands:

EM Media’s Talent Network presents a Producer Forum event Convergence! What’s the story?

Published: 15 May 2009

Convergence: “The flow of content across multiple media platforms, the co-operation between multiple media industries and the migratory behaviour of media audiences." (Henry Jenkins, author Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide).

But how you do make convergence work for you? This event aims to offer some answers!


Who’s the event aimed at?
Producers across the film, games, TV or interactive industries - get an overview of how convergence is affecting the outlook of the creative industries and discover new ways in which projects are being commissioned.

Script and screen writers - discover how to transfer your talents and adapt your working practice to fully exploit the range of media platforms looking for content.

MORE DETAILS HERE:-
http://www.em-media.org.uk/pages/news/article?4CB0BAF7-272C-4649-A323-CCFC59055019

Venue: The Portfolio Centre, University of Northampton, Avenue Campus, St George's Avenue, Northampton NN2 6JD
Date: Thursday 28 May
Time: 6pm-9pm

LUNCHTIME WATCHALONG - HappySlapper - RTE STORYLAND

Okay, it's been so long since I've posted any RTÉ STORYLAND updates.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS ON RTÉ STORYLAND.

Four shows are in the running for the Fourth Round of the Irish online drama series,
HappySlapper
Hardy Bucks
Psych Ward
Rental Boys

Sadly, it means that...

Pub World
Jenny Was a Friend of Mine
Running Low

...won't be going through to the next round.

Show some love by visiting their sites (linked above), and let me know in COMMENTS BELOW if more episodes of these emerge after Storyland.


So this week I'll be catching up with the finalist episodes from the second round.

Today, HAPPYSLAPPER.





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YOUR WEB SERIES HERE? on StoryGas

IF YOU'D LIKE YOUR SHOW TO GET A PLUG HERE...

This blog is a bank of the shows I'm watching - which means there will be a backlog.

You can really help me to help you by sending over:

- a nice EYE-CATCHING PICTURE, logo, screenshot or any or all of these

- EMBED CODES for the episodes you like best, or which best introduce your show to a new audience
(please - no autoplay they are pain in butt - and nothing with a width bigger than around "400" - this is why I tend to link/embed youtube vids... they just... work).

- a PARAGRAPH explaining what the show is

- all the LINKS you think a new audience would appreciate to 'get' your show.

(Click here for all posts labelled SHOWS - this is the kind of stuff I would need to link to you)

It really will put you near the top of the list of what I'm going to watch next.

Should I put a paypal virtual tip jar here to help the process? Let me know.

Online Drama coming soon... "HEY BABE"

From MediaGuardian:-

A hard-hitting NHS viral advertising campaign about teenage pregnancy has been banned by YouTube for showing what appears to be a schoolgirl giving birth in a playground while being watched by students.

The video clip, posted by NHS Leceister, was unbranded and appeared to be real footage shot on a mobile phone and posted on YouTube, the hugely popular Google-owned social media website.

The clip is still viewable at a supporting campaign website, www.hey-babe.co.uk, which from next month will also host an online "docu-drama" featuring "local actors tackling common myths and frequently asked questions on relationships, sex and pregnancy".

MORE HERE:-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/15/nhs-teenage-pregnancy-viral-video-youtube-banned



It's due to be launched on 1st June - but unfortunately, cant find embeddable version of the vid anywhere?

SHOW HOME SITE HERE:-
http://www.hey-babe.co.uk

Online Comedy... FRAN THE SERIES

From FRAN THE SERIES:-

Life as Assistant Manager in the Leinster Senior League can be heartbreaking. Fran Costello hasn't seen his team in the premier division for nine long years. Convinced all that is about to change, Fran has allowed us to document their 'finest year'

MORE HERE:-
www.bebo.com/frantheseries

EPISODE ONE




"FRAN THE SERIES" SHOW HOME SITE HERE:-
www.bebo.com/frantheseries

"FRAN THE SERIES" YOUTUBE CHANNEL HERE:-
http://www.youtube.com/francostello


FOREIGN PLAYERS PROMO




BOLLOCKING PROMO



ON SET WITH FRAN




*****STORYGAS INTERACTIVE RATING*****
FRAN THE SERIES
Can you embed? YES
Can you comment? YES
Also on youtube? YES
Forums? not found
Blog? not found
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What do you think?
Sum it up in 3 words, or scores out of 10...
See COMMENTS below

WE GOT A SEGWAY. WE GOT A STEADICAM. Let nature take its course.

This is such a tenuous link to web series production, but thought you'd like it.

If only on the grounds of "mad camera technique tip".

Big thanks to Dembroriffic!:-

It should be said that those of us in the Film/TV industry pride ourselves in figuring out the magic and trickery behind technically amazing shots such as this one - so I gave it a watch (skip to 2:39 and watch for the long continuous take):

MORE HERE:-
http://blog.dembro.org/2009/05/19/in-belarus-camera-moves-you/



Or here, isolated, is the breathtaking 27 second single shot from the Belarus entry for Eurovision Song Contest 2009 (Petr Elfimov, "Eyes That Never Lie", since you ask)


(it takes 10 seconds or more to load - to pop out in another window try this:)
http://splicd.com/8FoLR-So1no/153/194


Actually it's not that breathtaking - this is breathtaking.

HERE'S HOW THEY DID IT.



GO SEGWAY! GO SEGWAY! (and man running alongside you - is he pulling focus?)

So, yeah, - if you want a different dolly, get a handle-less Segway. Crash it into the stage and keep running.

And while we're in the mood, this is how Eurovision was done behind the scenes in 1977.
(WARNING - BBC gallery strength LANGUAGE)




Enough Eurovision. Normal service resumed tomorrow.

Online Drama... "BREAK FREE 2009"

From Break Free:

"'Break Free' is a 12 episode On-line Drama which will launch across various internet sites on Tuesday, 12 May 2009. Written by six freelance workers on the Cyfle Writing for Multi- platform scheme, the groundbreaking pilot will have its own YouTube channel accompanied by a whole stimulating package of Multi-platform elements – including MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and Blogs."

MORE HERE:-
http://www.breakfree2009.co.uk/blog

The Break Free Story
Do you remember the Millennium? People thought the world would come to an end. My world had.
I’d lost my job. My wife had left me. My children hated me. I was on the edge of despair.
So I said Goodbye Despair, Hello Hope.
And I founded Break Free.

That was ten years ago. I’m now happy and fulfilled. Happy because I sorted myself out. Fulfilled because I’ve helped literally thousands of people to do the same.

Face up to each other. Go out and face the world. Ascend and Transcend.

(To help the healing, I will record the whole process. Think of the cameras as your friends. Friends are there to help you.)

SHOW HOME SITE HERE:-
http://www.breakfree2009.co.uk

"THE GURU" SITE HERE:-
www.breakfreewiththeguru.co.uk

YOUTUBE CHANNEL HERE:-
http://www.youtube.com/breakfree2009

EPISODE 3 HERE:-


BREAK FREE ON TWITTER:-
http://twitter.com/breakfree09


*****STORYGAS INTERACTIVE RATING*****
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From 'why?' to 'why not?' (how Internet changes everything)

Really enjoyed this article by Clay Shirky in today's MediaGuardian: (Happy 25th Birthday)

"- editing is a type of creation as well as filter - the division of labour was clear: professionals managed the creation and filtering of media, both selecting and improving it; amateurs consumed and discussed it.

That era, when media were shaped by the scarcity of production and by the judgment of professionals, has ended.

The problem the web has introduced into intellectual life is also one of abundance, but an abundance of producers, not merely production. The speed and scale of this increase, occasioned by the internet and mobile phones and moving from under a million participants to more than a billion in less than a generation, make the change unprecedented, even considered against the background of previous revolutions, and the resulting amateurisation of media creation is still accelerating."

MORE HERE:-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/18/internet-future

This in particular caught my eye:

Media companies have previously been anointers of the talented, by virtue of the production bottleneck. In a world of abundant producers, talent will continue to be scarce, but the talented will not lack for ways to display their work. This makes the market for talent a more ad hoc affair, less about artificial scarcity and more about mutual opportunity.

Even more dramatically, users who have one good thing in them - one recipe, one video, one political rant - can now produce that one thing and be heard by millions, without needing a contract and without securing any long-term audience. The 15th-century rationale came, at base, from the economic risk of spending time and effort producing bad material. Those economic limitations are gone; the question every amateur creator asks themselves every day isn't "Why publish this?" but "Why not?"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/18/internet-future

With legacy media - the only thing preventing bad material is "economic risk".

On the web, we decide what 'good material' is - at the moment through recommendation, forwarding, embedding, rate of growth of a community around the material etc...

I can't help thinking that attempts by legacy media to block or charge for content before consumption might in the future be seen as a way of maintaining a system for creating bad material.

Am I too utopian in thinking that 'good material' (as decided by the audience) will always find an audience, and therefore money?

That the only content which should fear a world where content is available 'for free', is bad content?


(click here for more articles I've linked to under the label RECOMMENDED READING)

Llewtube - Car pool with robot from Red Dwarf

Not a narrative web series... I know...



Thanks to KateModern writing comrade Lawrence Tallis for forwarding me this. Red Dwarf star (Kryten), Robert Llewellyn has started "Carpool" - a series of in-car interviews. In the ep above he talks with David Baddiel about Frank Skinner, Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned, the new Red Dwarf episodes, and buying food for vegans. (Is there an integration in there for Tesco Express??? No probably not.)

From llewtube.com:-

Welcome to LLEWTUBE. This site has been created and is run by Robert Llewellyn with more than a little help from the wonderful people at channelflip.com. I have been waffling on about it for months, it’s been a long time coming, I hope it has been worth the wait. For the next 16 weeks I will be posting a new ‘Car Pool’ interview every week. Most of the shows run at less than 15 minutes.

MORE HERE:-
http://www.llewtube.com/