cinemakinoeye
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What do you think is the significance of Quarterlife in terms of the future of "television-style" entertainment on the web?
I've been watching the show and it's an interesting hybrid of traditional film/television production and the lean and mean aesthetics of simplified area lighting and hand-held videography that is so prevalent among indie producitons. And it's being delivered as streaming video on the web. The acting and writing are solid. The topics and issues timely. And building a social network is part of the package. And unlike most television productions today, the producers are maintaining creative and financial control.
Many people are keeping an eye on the show to see what comes of this experiment of taking television series to the web and building a social network. Is this form going to become more prevalent in the future? Will independent production companies take a bite out of the studio and network stranglehold on ad dollars and sponsorship revenue?
As fuel for this discussion, you might be interested in listening to an audio interview I did with Marshall Herskovitz (who created the show with Ed Zwick) in which he talks about the origins of Quarterlife, his thoughts on the writers strike, and the future of scripted entertainment on the web. Also relevant to this topic is "Are the corporate suits ruining TV?" an editorial by Herskovitz that appeared in the Los Angeles Times on November 7, 2007 in which he argues that Network control and media consolidation are wringing the creativity out of entertainment.
I've been watching the show and it's an interesting hybrid of traditional film/television production and the lean and mean aesthetics of simplified area lighting and hand-held videography that is so prevalent among indie producitons. And it's being delivered as streaming video on the web. The acting and writing are solid. The topics and issues timely. And building a social network is part of the package. And unlike most television productions today, the producers are maintaining creative and financial control.
Many people are keeping an eye on the show to see what comes of this experiment of taking television series to the web and building a social network. Is this form going to become more prevalent in the future? Will independent production companies take a bite out of the studio and network stranglehold on ad dollars and sponsorship revenue?
As fuel for this discussion, you might be interested in listening to an audio interview I did with Marshall Herskovitz (who created the show with Ed Zwick) in which he talks about the origins of Quarterlife, his thoughts on the writers strike, and the future of scripted entertainment on the web. Also relevant to this topic is "Are the corporate suits ruining TV?" an editorial by Herskovitz that appeared in the Los Angeles Times on November 7, 2007 in which he argues that Network control and media consolidation are wringing the creativity out of entertainment.
