This here is a new show: Quarterlife.
This is the first episode of the show that I got caught watching this past week. It is marketed as a "new internet series and social network". It was quite fascinating to watch for me because it was combining the two things that we usually simply don't combine: our cyber-connected world and our real one. The show is about a blogger who video blogs about her friends, spilling all sorts of information all over the internet which sets off a lot of drama of course. The stories are intertwined with a reality TV-feel camera shot inside the co-ed apartment of a handful of friends (sound familiar?) and with the internet blogs of the main character Dylan, the writer. That's the other thing: the people in the show are all some form of artistic. One is an actor, one is a writer, two are film kids working on commercials...etc.
This is how the website is geared as well. The social networking site is marketed as "a community for artists, thinkers, and do-ers." It is is a "myspace"-type communication site for young adults to subscribe to and channels for areas of interest that conveniently match the interests of the characters like photography, acting, film...etc. Hmm.
Here is the article that I found today about how well it has done: Article. (I will give you a hint: not good.)
I thought it was a good attempt. In a class, it could be fun to look at because of the conversation about blogging and the way that we communicate with the people around us. We could create blogs and talk about taking audience into consideration as we communicate ideas. What are the repercussions of sending our ideas out into the void of the internet?
Also, I think the characters in the show are so interesting. There is not a lot of depth to them. It would be fun to show to an acting class and to pull the characteristics and discuss how to deepen them. This could also be interesting in a screenwriting or playwriting class in that same regard. What could make this more marketable to a wider audience? What could deepen the characters and the story?
This is the first episode of the show that I got caught watching this past week. It is marketed as a "new internet series and social network". It was quite fascinating to watch for me because it was combining the two things that we usually simply don't combine: our cyber-connected world and our real one. The show is about a blogger who video blogs about her friends, spilling all sorts of information all over the internet which sets off a lot of drama of course. The stories are intertwined with a reality TV-feel camera shot inside the co-ed apartment of a handful of friends (sound familiar?) and with the internet blogs of the main character Dylan, the writer. That's the other thing: the people in the show are all some form of artistic. One is an actor, one is a writer, two are film kids working on commercials...etc.This is how the website is geared as well. The social networking site is marketed as "a community for artists, thinkers, and do-ers." It is is a "myspace"-type communication site for young adults to subscribe to and channels for areas of interest that conveniently match the interests of the characters like photography, acting, film...etc. Hmm.
Here is the article that I found today about how well it has done: Article. (I will give you a hint: not good.)
I thought it was a good attempt. In a class, it could be fun to look at because of the conversation about blogging and the way that we communicate with the people around us. We could create blogs and talk about taking audience into consideration as we communicate ideas. What are the repercussions of sending our ideas out into the void of the internet?
Also, I think the characters in the show are so interesting. There is not a lot of depth to them. It would be fun to show to an acting class and to pull the characteristics and discuss how to deepen them. This could also be interesting in a screenwriting or playwriting class in that same regard. What could make this more marketable to a wider audience? What could deepen the characters and the story?
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What I like about the idea of the show is that it seems (note: I haven't seen it) that they're trying to make a show that actually reflects the fact that our lives are infused with media to the point that these different media forms can influence the way that we interact with others. It would be interesting to have kids talk about why this doesn't work-- why aren't they interested in this?
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