So there’s the video from E3 of Peter Molyneux showing off a project his company is working on, based on Microsoft’s Project Natal. It’s a character named Milo living in a tiny virtual world. The video shows a woman named Claire interacting with Milo in ways that seem wondrous and amazing.
But how much of what [...]
Adapted from a post on the message boards at the fantastic screenwriting site Wordplayer. Read everything everywhere on that site if you want a deep understanding of how to write a screenplay.
So with my web sketch comedy group Monkey With A Shotgun, I’ve got an actual revenue-generating video series over on Babelgum.
Babelgum is a [...]
Say you were interested in transmedia storytelling.
Now imagine you were telling your story via user interaction with a persistent, learning, evolving character (like the dream version of the Natal Milo demo). Say the character would always be interacting with the user, to the point that they were “living” the story together.
Your goal here would really [...]
Back to my on again, off again blog. Poor neglected thing.
This time around I’m looking at doing something a little different with it. I’ve tried in the past to focus my blogs, and had several different sites with different focuses. That didn’t really work for me, so this time around I’m going to just dump [...]
Over on his blog today, Kent Nichols of Ask A Ninja asks the all important question- “Is Online Video Dead?”
It’s true that the real successes of web video series can be counted on one hand. But then we’re still very early on in the game. The things people are trying now are [...]
One offshoot of SoCal Film Group is Monkey With A Shotgun, a group formed for the purpose of making sketch comedy shorts for internet distribution. The name isn’t just a moniker for the group, it’s also a sort of operating philosophy. Make a lot of different stuff fast and hope to hit some [...]
Looking at their domain name’s site, it’s hard to tell if this project is going to launch with this name or not.
But the blog Divided Hollywood has some more information on the workings of the project. It’s apparently intended to be a clearinghouse for WGA member web video projects, presumably including some [...]
I’m hoping that either a) the name is misreported or b) they have
secured the name from the person that’s had it since 2005.
“Starting in January, the WGA will commence STRIKETV.com, where clips
of video material will be put up and advertiser support sought.”
And yeah, I was checking because well…I always check.
Some people don’t,
Looks like NewTeeVee is also asking questions about Quarterlife’s performance.
It’s worth nothing the reported total of 2,000,000 views is still considerably more than you can track on the main video sites, at least for the episodes. Unless QL is counting total views for all the videos, including the little interstitial-like things and then dividing [...]
