Need 2 No

[stantheman]

Do you Need 2 No?

Or are you Free 2 Roam?

It's quite clever. Strikes me as a buzz-generator for an upcoming film in the guise of vlogging.

[milowent]

i ran across this person the other day on livevideo, where she has a ton of vids.

www.livevideo.com/need2no

It clearly is scripted, i couldn't figure out its purpose.

Ah, I just noticed that youtube vid has this link on it:

www.sonypictures.com/movies/perfectstranger/

Perfect Stranger? Looks like a big budget movie, with Halle Berry and Bruce Willis, coming 4/13/2007.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0457433/

Tagline: How Far Would You Go To Keep A Secret?

Plot Outline: As she goes undercover to crack the case of her friend's murder, a woman (Berry) gets caught up in the world of obsessive love online.

[Smashing]

one of the promo vids was featured on Myspace too. The movie looks horrible.
Apparently only really crappy movies (like this and Epic Movie) bother to try to launch a web video marketing campaign.

edit: oh, and if anyone doubts that Epic Movie sucked, it is #26 in imdb's bottom 100.

[stantheman]

smashing said:

...Apparently only really crappy movies (like this and Epic Movie) bother to try to launch a web video marketing campaign. ...

I would agree with that so far. It appears opportunistic at best, but that may change as they see what works and what gets laughed out of the market.

There seems to be a surge in video blogging as a plot device, especially on regular TV where it's becoming commonplace in various crime dramas. Now it's spreading to movies.

The success of LG15 may have spurred screenwriters on, at least as far as incorporating this communications trend into their overall storytelling, even to the point of emulating the most successful vloggers. The editing style of Need 2 No is blatantly derivative of Bree and Daniel's respective monologues.

I think Hollywood is scrutinizing YouTube more than anyone would suspect. Sooner or later a film will come along that does not suck, yet draws heavily on the online culture in ways that only an insider would fully appreciate.