Post by milowent on Dec 5, 2006 16:48:59 GMT -5
Hey!! I overlooked that wired has a 15 minute "podcast" interview with joshua davis, who authored the wired article.
You can download it here:
sonibyte.com/audio/raw/1791.mp3
Highlights:
- Davis relates being a lg15 fan, then later reading the NYTimes article outing the creators and recognizing Mesh Flinders, who he knew growing up. (2:00)
- He mentions Mesh's commune/ashram and the leader of it (whose name i didn't make out--indian spiritual teacher), and being focused on meditation, but 'not freaky.' (2:20)
- Bree is sort of the alter-ego of Mesh, influenced by his upbringing on the commune (around 4:40)
- More discussion of how "My Parents Suck" (posted July 4, 2006) was a watershed moment for the show. (around 5:30). The guys "stumbled on" what clicked and got a 1/2 million views.
Davis restates that Daniel and Bree were never intended to be romantically involved, but the love element was then introduced.
- Post outing: Talks about how the creators went to the networks after the outing and got nowhere. (9:30). One network showed them their "supplemental materials" online to promote their upcoming fall lineup. So, the creators still "have no deal" and "are running out of money."
-- So "how do content creators survive"? (11:05) Youtube started with "pratfalls and animal videos," and Davis suggests that can only last so long, and if no one pays content creators, no new stories will come out at some point.
-- She's on the run (13:00) and story is expanding.... Where are they going to take it?
Davis: "Nobody knows exactly how to tell a story online....
"One of the ideas these guys have is that for most of the series so far, it's been bree filming herself, the camera is never, you never have a third-person camera, there's never any, like, camera crew, right, its always about bree and her webcam.
"And now as they bring in new characters, each character has to be filiming themself with their own webcam. So, Daniel, films himself. Now there's a new character who is in London, filming herself. Basically each character has its own channel, they put out their own videos.
"In classical television, say sitcoms for instance, you have a group of writers who go into a room and they sit down at a table, and they all hash out one storyline and somebody goes off and writes it. Now, in this new paradigm, what we have is a group of writers and directors coming together in a room, coming up with a general storyline, and then everybody going off and writing their own scripts and filming their own scripts, and all posting them independently. They're all interrelated but they all have essentially their own show, so each character .... has their own show, and it becomes this kind of amorphous universe unto itself, with all these self-referential videos.
And to be honest I have no idea if its going to work, but its a fascinating experiment. .....
It's exactly what Walter Benjamin predicted in this book Illuminations in the 1920s, 1930s, its this idea that technology dictates the story.
EDIT 7:19pm for spelling: its a PODcast not a POScast, regardless of the content.
You can download it here:
sonibyte.com/audio/raw/1791.mp3
Highlights:
- Davis relates being a lg15 fan, then later reading the NYTimes article outing the creators and recognizing Mesh Flinders, who he knew growing up. (2:00)
- He mentions Mesh's commune/ashram and the leader of it (whose name i didn't make out--indian spiritual teacher), and being focused on meditation, but 'not freaky.' (2:20)
- Bree is sort of the alter-ego of Mesh, influenced by his upbringing on the commune (around 4:40)
- More discussion of how "My Parents Suck" (posted July 4, 2006) was a watershed moment for the show. (around 5:30). The guys "stumbled on" what clicked and got a 1/2 million views.
Davis restates that Daniel and Bree were never intended to be romantically involved, but the love element was then introduced.
- Post outing: Talks about how the creators went to the networks after the outing and got nowhere. (9:30). One network showed them their "supplemental materials" online to promote their upcoming fall lineup. So, the creators still "have no deal" and "are running out of money."
-- So "how do content creators survive"? (11:05) Youtube started with "pratfalls and animal videos," and Davis suggests that can only last so long, and if no one pays content creators, no new stories will come out at some point.
-- She's on the run (13:00) and story is expanding.... Where are they going to take it?
Davis: "Nobody knows exactly how to tell a story online....
"One of the ideas these guys have is that for most of the series so far, it's been bree filming herself, the camera is never, you never have a third-person camera, there's never any, like, camera crew, right, its always about bree and her webcam.
"And now as they bring in new characters, each character has to be filiming themself with their own webcam. So, Daniel, films himself. Now there's a new character who is in London, filming herself. Basically each character has its own channel, they put out their own videos.
"In classical television, say sitcoms for instance, you have a group of writers who go into a room and they sit down at a table, and they all hash out one storyline and somebody goes off and writes it. Now, in this new paradigm, what we have is a group of writers and directors coming together in a room, coming up with a general storyline, and then everybody going off and writing their own scripts and filming their own scripts, and all posting them independently. They're all interrelated but they all have essentially their own show, so each character .... has their own show, and it becomes this kind of amorphous universe unto itself, with all these self-referential videos.
And to be honest I have no idea if its going to work, but its a fascinating experiment. .....
It's exactly what Walter Benjamin predicted in this book Illuminations in the 1920s, 1930s, its this idea that technology dictates the story.
EDIT 7:19pm for spelling: its a PODcast not a POScast, regardless of the content.
