Comments on: Striking Out on Creating an Internet Hit http://kara.allthingsd.com/20071107/striking-out-on-creating-an-internet-hit/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:52:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: TV Crush » Blog Archive » WGA: It’s All About The Internet/Variety Whines http://kara.allthingsd.com/20071107/striking-out-on-creating-an-internet-hit/#comment-8586 TV Crush » Blog Archive » WGA: It’s All About The Internet/Variety Whines Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:54:43 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/20071107/striking-out-on-creating-an-internet-hit/#comment-8586 [...] Writes Wall Street Journal’s Kara Swisher about the strikers’ demands: [...] [...] Writes Wall Street Journal’s Kara Swisher about the strikers’ demands: [...]

]]> By: Jeff Bach http://kara.allthingsd.com/20071107/striking-out-on-creating-an-internet-hit/#comment-1695 Jeff Bach Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:27:36 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/20071107/striking-out-on-creating-an-internet-hit/#comment-1695 Good article and a good comment above. I would like to add two words to the mix: discovery and fragmentation. I think these are two huge issues that present significant obstacles to online video. The beauty of the internet is a wide and deep display of content. The curse of this is that it affords the chance for "three" (or some other small number) people each go to their niche content and happily view their preferred topic. But right now, even if that three people were to become three hundred thousand, that is still not enough to support the production of that media much less offer any profit incentive to the owners creators producers and...writers. How do we fix this? In other words, how does the content and the content people solve the twin obstacles of being discovered by the viewing public in a world that is being filled with almost limitless numbers of content fragments?? I'm trying to make a living in a specialty world, but it is more and more looking like that living can only happen in a commodity-based world supported by large numbers of viewers and large scale advertising. Much like what is already out there. I hope there is another solution! Jeff Bach Quietwater Films Good article and a good comment above.

I would like to add two words to the mix: discovery and fragmentation.

I think these are two huge issues that present significant obstacles to online video. The beauty of the internet is a wide and deep display of content. The curse of this is that it affords the chance for “three” (or some other small number) people each go to their niche content and happily view their preferred topic. But right now, even if that three people were to become three hundred thousand, that is still not enough to support the production of that media much less offer any profit incentive to the owners creators producers and…writers.

How do we fix this? In other words, how does the content and the content people solve the twin obstacles of being discovered by the viewing public in a world that is being filled with almost limitless numbers of content fragments??

I’m trying to make a living in a specialty world, but it is more and more looking like that living can only happen in a commodity-based world supported by large numbers of viewers and large scale advertising. Much like what is already out there.

I hope there is another solution!
Jeff Bach
Quietwater Films

]]> By: kathryn jones http://kara.allthingsd.com/20071107/striking-out-on-creating-an-internet-hit/#comment-1589 kathryn jones Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:09:21 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/20071107/striking-out-on-creating-an-internet-hit/#comment-1589 Hi Kara, There are a lot of us out there working hard to create an online video model that firmly distinguishes us from our TV counterparts (in fact many of us are searching for a term other than the oft used "internet tv"- as we feel the term both inhibits and discredits our efforts). Online video will fully find its wings when we as online video producers fully embrace the particular advantages that the internet has to offer rather than imitate what we have always recognized as linear television shows. My company Synchronis.tv attempted to bring online entertainment to a new and specifically web 2.0 level when we produced "35", the first scripted web 2.0 drama to stream live to the internet (3 cameras mixed in real time and streamed live at 9pm from September 17th -30th 2007 on ustream.tv). While our live web drama incorporated a chat room , and of course took advantage of the newly accessible live streaming platforms, it is our hope to more fully integrate our audience into the live creative process in our next go round. An equally important distinction is that many web entertainment companies (mine included) are fully committed to a profit share plan in which all our cast and crew are compensated proportionately, in perpetuity, and regardless of the medium by which that profit was derived. The democratization of entertainment via online media means just that...all creators are an integral and irreplaceable part of the whole. I believe the opportunities for online video producers are boundless and the creative possibilities for writers, directors and actors unlimited as soon as we, as committed online producers, manage to harness the particular power of the web. best, Kathryn Jones http://www.synchronis.tv Hi Kara,

There are a lot of us out there working hard to create an online video model that firmly distinguishes us from our TV counterparts (in fact many of us are searching for a term other than the oft used “internet tv”- as we feel the term both inhibits and discredits our efforts). Online video will fully find its wings when we as online video producers fully embrace the particular advantages that the internet has to offer rather than imitate what we have always recognized as linear television shows. My company Synchronis.tv attempted to bring online entertainment to a new and specifically web 2.0 level when we produced “35″, the first scripted web 2.0 drama to stream live to the internet (3 cameras mixed in real time and streamed live at 9pm from September 17th -30th 2007 on ustream.tv). While our live web drama incorporated a chat room , and of course took advantage of the newly accessible live streaming platforms, it is our hope to more fully integrate our audience into the live creative process in our next go round.

An equally important distinction is that many web entertainment companies (mine included) are fully committed to a profit share plan in which all our cast and crew are compensated proportionately, in perpetuity, and regardless of the medium by which that profit was derived. The democratization of entertainment via online media means just that…all creators are an integral and irreplaceable part of the whole.

I believe the opportunities for online video producers are boundless and the creative possibilities for writers, directors and actors unlimited as soon as we, as committed online producers, manage to harness the particular power of the web.

best,
Kathryn Jones
http://www.synchronis.tv

]]> By: Hollywood Hoo-Ha, Part 2,478 | BoomTown | Kara Swisher | AllThingsD http://kara.allthingsd.com/20071107/striking-out-on-creating-an-internet-hit/#comment-1579 Hollywood Hoo-Ha, Part 2,478 | BoomTown | Kara Swisher | AllThingsD Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:02:21 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/20071107/striking-out-on-creating-an-internet-hit/#comment-1579 [...] The latest piece of hoo-ha comes from former Disney CEO Michael Eisner (pictured below), pointing a finger at Apple as the real villain in the ongoing strike between the Writers Guild of America and Hollywood entertainment behemoths. [...] [...] The latest piece of hoo-ha comes from former Disney CEO Michael Eisner (pictured below), pointing a finger at Apple as the real villain in the ongoing strike between the Writers Guild of America and Hollywood entertainment behemoths. [...]

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