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Post by milowent on Jul 28, 2007 13:55:07 GMT -5
www.sparkminute.com/?p=221"...and I think the videos are insipid, overly melodramatic, and the acting is horrible, I find what they’re creating completely fascinating...." "...Currently, the Kate Modern version is in the UK, London I believe. They hope to go to Tokyo next and many other cities." --- (link via iris at the phorum)
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Post by Terryfic on Jul 30, 2007 3:02:42 GMT -5
Bah, more empty hype. It should be clear to the most fans by now that the 'interactivity' is just media hype. The actual real world events are very few and far between, the puzzles are either laughably easy or when not solved within a couple days Taylor comes along and solves them for the phorum. The videos are shot well ahead of time so any initial reaction to a video cannot effect the story for sometime. The quote that they think the videos should have a low production quality look is clearly the opposite of what they actually produce. Finally, the locality idea is the most foolish of all. The idea that you can only do real world interaction in the city where the videos are shot is just ridiculous. Countless ARGs have been cross country, just look at Maddison Atkins, it takes place in Nacogdoches, TX yet it has had drops all around America and recently even in England.
This whole speech that Greg gave (and has given countless times) is not at all representative of the show and it just media hype. What bothers me is not that he is lying to get the show more attention, it is how it continues to work. No one would write a story about a regular run of the mill internet series, but add in the industry's new buzz word 'interactive' and all of a sudden there are blog posts every other week.
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Post by lola on Jul 30, 2007 13:32:16 GMT -5
One big flaw in this piece, that points to exactly the issues you raise Terryfic, is the line about them turning down an offer from CAA. CAA is their agent, they represent the LG15 team in deals, they don't make offers or produce anything themselves. They keep making a big deal about turning down hollywood offers but I'm guessing there were never any real offers and if they were was an offer from someone it was a small 'development deal' that would have tied but the rights for a year or so for a few thousand dollars and therefor not worth it.
I'm also guessing that given the size of the Kate Modern team they are somewhat beholden to Bebo in the same way traditional filmmakers are beholden to a distributor. It would be interesting to know (from a business standpoint) if they are "guns for hire" on Kate Modern or if they own the copyright on Kate and license it to Bebo.
It's just strange to me that the blogger, who works in the media, made that CAA mistake.
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Post by milowent on Jul 30, 2007 15:11:27 GMT -5
...It's just strange to me that the blogger, who works in the media, made that CAA mistake. this blog had a lot of errors, i thought. one of his examples of interactivity is from Deep Throat where Daniel repeats twice specific directions to a location in santa monica. Sparky cites that as a suggestion the fans had to go to the location, when in fact Greg specified after the video that it WASN'T a drop. (Maybe it was a NotDrop?) the CAA mistake must be a similarly garbled error. i agree with your assessment of what they were offered -- this idea that they were just in love with making videos online and the interactivity would have died in a second for the right amount of $$ (and i wouldn't blame them). as for being beholden to bebo, what happens with normal network shows? like, does CBS own Everyone Loves Raymond, or does some separate entity? |
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