Film schools have long served as launching pads for film and television careers, and now most major universities offer at least some sort of filmmaking courses, even for those not looking to jump into entertainment. A number of schools have begun looking academically at the impacts of new media on culture and the future of entertainment, but so far the more practical nuts and bolts of web series production and distribution have yet to make it onto into the university course lists. In Los Angeles, two new Web TV education programs have launched this month looking to fill that gap —and at a fraction of a film school tuition. NewMedialocity and Web TV Workshop both offer four-week intro courses for creative types looking to learn how to get an original web series project off the ground. Both take the approach of teaching through experienced guest teachers—those brave souls who...
- 4/28/2010
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
If any of you out there in the wide world of web television are feeling like you want to spend more time watching people with microphones follow around somewhat important people, you will be thrilled to hear that The Yellow Mic with Logan Leistikow (pronounced "Lice-tick-oh", in case you were wondering) will give you exactly that. The Yellow Mic, produced by Satacracy 88 producers Marc Cittadino and Andy Dugan, bills itself as a "guerrilla variety show", which basically means that we get to watch Logan chat up anyone willing to give him a few minutes on the big yellow-headed microphone he carries around. So far, the show consists of yellow-mic-laden Leistikow, and guests like Erin Tietsort of Sunset Tan, web stars Randy and Jason Sklar of Back on Topps, and video game personality Cliff "CliffyB" Bleszinski (above) in an episode hosted by Marcus Beer of Annoyed Gamer fame.
- 5/18/2009
- by Pat Miller
- Tubefilter.com
“Interactive” has been a buzzword associated with online entertainment since Al Gore invented the medium. After the first original online series, The Spot hit broadband waves in 1995 - offering audiences the opportunity to chat with characters via “electronic messages known as e-mail” - a number of programs have used the unprecedented connectivity and instant feedback inherent to the web to craft stories in unique ways. The Emmy Award-winning, sci-fi thriller Satacracy 88 gave audiences an opportunity to make a binary, choose-your-own-adventure selection about what would happen next. Where are the Joneses? brought viewers directly into writers meetings and gave them a seat on the casting couch to help decide how Dawn would find her 27 product-of-a-sperm-donor siblings. In iChannel, YouTube comments and video responses directly influenced the life of a young man who undergoes a modern day Metamorphisis to find himself under constant camera surveillance. Take180 takes the concept of interactivity to the next level.
- 2/10/2009
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tilzy.tv
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