Archive for January, 2007

TV Courting Fans

Audiences Internet Participatory Design TVPublished January 25, 2007 at 1:25 am No Comments

Thanks Angus for the heads up on this nice example of producer’s courting the fans. On a recent episode of My Name is Earl, a character who is a forum members of Television Without Pity refers to their posts in the real life forum. Posts which have actually been posted. The character is killed off, and a forum
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Korean Film ARG

ARG Advertising Creative Film MarketingPublished January 24, 2007 at 11:17 am No Comments

In Feb a new feature film called The Host will be released. It is a scary monster film that has already won numerous Korean Film awards, including Best Film and Best Director. I just checked out the trailer and at the end was some information that if you follow up on…you’ll find an ARG. Yes! An ARG! Very
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‘Stranger Adventures’ interview with the writers

ARG Creative Internet WritingPublished January 23, 2007 at 12:55 am No Comments

Stranger Adventures, an interactive net drama, has been running for a couple of years. It has been nominated for an Emmy twice. There is an interview with the writers by Christie Taylor at the Writers University. Here is an excerpt:
How does writing for “Stranger Adventures” differ from screenwriting?
This is just like writing a screenplay to me
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