Ever wish you could just click on Ctrl + Z to rewind your life? A “do-over”, ya know? Maybe you said something you wish you hadn’t or instead of eating that donut for breakfast, you wish you had opted for the bowl of cereal? Then click on over to NBC’s new web series, Ctrl starring funny-man, [...]
You walk into a government office, the dreary kind with white-walled cubicles and humming fluorescent lights. You need a form stamped, but the underpaid government employee is a jerk and won’t do it without you going through another chain of bureaucracy for the right signatures. It’s not enough you’ve been standing in line for hours while sweat drips down the back of your neck.
That government employee is Edward Borman (Mark Tierno), one of the heroes in Chris Preksta’s The Mercury Men, a sci-fi web series set in an alternative history in 1975 where aliens really do live on other planets in our solar system. When pure-light beings from the planet Mercury invade earth, it is up to him and action-hero Jack Yaeger (Curt Wootten) to stop them. Did we mention the baddies shoot lightning from their fingertips? The action-hero, adorned with a leather flight helmet while brandishing a laser pistol, is an aerospace engineer from a mysterious organization known as the “League.” Good luck Jack.
Ed. Note: This guest article is written by Rochelle Dancel, an independent content producer from London, England, and the Associate Producer of Canadian web series, B.J. Fletcher: Private Eye.
I’ve been wanting to write a series of how-to tips based on our experience of making, B.J. Fletcher: Private Eye, so we started reminiscing about what we wish we’d known before we’d started making our website. Having had the pleasure of connecting with many other web series producers online, I was curious, and asked them the same question, “What do you wish you’d known before you started making your web series?”
1. “Sometimes, angry people are just hungry.”
Rosemary Rowe and Renee Olbert, Co-Creators of Seeking Simone
Maybe the Dharma Initiative is actually just a front to saturate the American automobile market with reliable, affordable Korean-made cars. (So that’s why Jin and Sun were on that plane.)
Kia Motors is sponsoring a five-episode Internet miniseries by ABC called Mysteries of the Universe: The Dharma Initiative, a set of short-form documentaries about the enigmatic research institute that is central to the show’s mystery.
Not only are these faux-documentaries pure LOST mythology, they’re done up in impeccable ’80s investigative journalism style, complete with VHS tracking lines. It’s so authentic I feel sorry for whoever got stuck with putting them on a video cassette before ripping them and putting them up on ABC.com.
Chop, chop, chop. Watching the smooth motion of a knife slicing up vegetables for dinner seems utterly normal, but adding the well-composed musical backdrop, Piano Trio No. 2 E-flat (the tune might sound familiar, if you have ever watched The Hunger), behind the action in the first installment of Penny Dreadfuls induces an eerie, unconventional [...]
Documentary filmmaking is a notoriously thankless job– give up years of your life on a film, wonder if anyone will ever see it, and get paid poorly for it. But if you believe what you see in Funnel of Darkness if your documentary film happens to be a tornado, you’ll have one hell of a time while you chase it.
IFC paired with Dailymotion, who bought a five day exclusive run of the series, before it was available to IFC August 1st. In a faux reality move, the scripted comedy web series cast a group of good looking guys with a nice background combination of filmmaking and near death experience between them. Keith Cecere as Keith Severe is the group’s bearded and fearless leader who has spent some of his real life as tech director for Discovery Channel’s Storm Chasers.
Ever wondered what the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers would look like if they kept at it after finishing high school?
They’d probably look something like the cast of MegaBot, the upcoming web series from 5432Films that takes the giant robot genre and gives it a rather not-safe-for-work spin on things. In classic Power Rangers tradition, the team is composed of five members, each with a different color: Red is Miles Fisher (best known for an eerily accurate Tom Cruise impression), Blue is Fran Kranz (Topher from Dollhouse), Pink is Heather Anne Campbell, Black is Giovanni Adams, and Yellow is none other than comedian Randall Park who you might know from Dr. Miracles.
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