Post by milowent on Nov 14, 2006 17:11:18 GMT -5
From the Spot to the Zabberbox, Floaters - We’re Talking Trend (Oct 6, 2006)
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Soup Of The Day :: A relationship entertainment experience. (News)
I guess few people remember The Spot - the first online soap. The actors used to stay in role, responding to viewer/reader queries, almost in real time as I recall.
The early Spot-type dedication to interaction is revived in Soup of the Day and other Iron Sink Media projects. As yet the crowd have not rushed to the boards at Zabberbox (webworld home of Soup) but it did some viral morphing on MySpace where the cast all have spaces and friends and where Soup airs (as it does on YouTube).
Iron Sink know their way around ultra-low cost entertaiment (but lo, Mark Cuban tied Soderburgh down to a million and a half on Bubble - here though we’re talking next to free). Iron Sink co-founder Scott Zakarin was a Spot pioneer.
Broken Saints is of that genre - keeping costs down but maintaining faith with an audience’s values. It is not from the Iron Sink, though Iron Sink has various media projects on site all worth a look.
Broken Saints and Soup got attention this week from USA Today, along with Phoebeworks’ Floaters. “Floaters is an independent serialized video presentation, produced and presented by Phoebeworks exclusively on the Web.” OK.
What all three show is content producers can challengeTV broadcasters with very little resources. Plenty of talent helps but why exaggerate the case. When did you last see great TV?
What else can we learn? Audiences will track you to Myspace and YouTube and as long as you are half honest in the way you portray people there will be an audience. That you can fill time and engage people without having to ape current narrative structures. You can use dilemma in place of story. That George Lucas is right - content is now about volume.
www.technologyvoices.com/node/3912
Soup Of The Day :: A relationship entertainment experience. (News)
I guess few people remember The Spot - the first online soap. The actors used to stay in role, responding to viewer/reader queries, almost in real time as I recall.
The early Spot-type dedication to interaction is revived in Soup of the Day and other Iron Sink Media projects. As yet the crowd have not rushed to the boards at Zabberbox (webworld home of Soup) but it did some viral morphing on MySpace where the cast all have spaces and friends and where Soup airs (as it does on YouTube).
Iron Sink know their way around ultra-low cost entertaiment (but lo, Mark Cuban tied Soderburgh down to a million and a half on Bubble - here though we’re talking next to free). Iron Sink co-founder Scott Zakarin was a Spot pioneer.
Broken Saints is of that genre - keeping costs down but maintaining faith with an audience’s values. It is not from the Iron Sink, though Iron Sink has various media projects on site all worth a look.
Broken Saints and Soup got attention this week from USA Today, along with Phoebeworks’ Floaters. “Floaters is an independent serialized video presentation, produced and presented by Phoebeworks exclusively on the Web.” OK.
What all three show is content producers can challengeTV broadcasters with very little resources. Plenty of talent helps but why exaggerate the case. When did you last see great TV?
What else can we learn? Audiences will track you to Myspace and YouTube and as long as you are half honest in the way you portray people there will be an audience. That you can fill time and engage people without having to ape current narrative structures. You can use dilemma in place of story. That George Lucas is right - content is now about volume.