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For Your Consideration – The Battery’s Down, the musical theater loving web series from New York-based creator Jake Wilson put out today what appears to be the first ever musical For Your Consideration video for The Streamy Awards (above). The riff on “All I Want For Christmas” stars former Wicked star Shoshana Bean and doubles as the show’s holiday release. Wilson and co. have officially raised the bar for FYI campaigns this year. [YouTube]

TheStream.tv raised over $7300 in 24hrs for a charity—The Pablove Foundation—that helps kids with cancer this past weekend during their live on-air #streamathon. Now that’s making good use of live web shows! [theStream.tv]

Dinosaur Diorama made a holiday video of their own, a “special extra-funny” episode of their Greg & Donny series—”Gregeneezer and the Three Monsters” (below). Will Gregeneezer avoid the fate of his old partner, Jacob Donny? [Dinosaur Diorama]

Rodrigo Blaas, a Pixar Studios animator, released his first ever independent short film, Alma, online this week for a limited time. [almasortfilm]

The Bannen Way hasn’t officially launched online yet, but that didn’t stop them from getting it up on Amazon as a pre-order. The action web series will premiere on Crackle on January 6th, and it’s making its Amazon debut January 8th. [Amazon]

Green Screens are everywhere. This ChromaKey video out of Russia mashes up the hundreds of TV shows that use green screen to beef up their environments. [YouTube]

“This tis the story of a band of gentlefolk who strive to bring forthe the finest renntertainment on the entire Delmarva Peninsula!” The folks at Dinosaur Diorama have been busy this month, serving up its first full-length episode of The Burg since 2007 that clocked in at a whopping 20 minutes. Then on November 17th, they premiered their first season of the “Renntertainment” comedy, All’s Faire.

Now you may be asking yourself, “wait, this is the FIRST season of All’s Faire? Wasn’t that a Streamy-nominated show last year?” I had the chance to correspond with Dinosaur Diorama’s Thom Woodley to get the details on how the current episodes tie into the Kingdom of Gary-shire upon Delmarva universe of Alls Faire.

“We did use some of what we shot in 2008,” said Woodley. “Those 9 shorts are nonchronological – they’re just slices of life at the faire. Actually, we just took those out of our larger script last year because we wanted to shoot something, but didn’t have the resources to do more than a one day shoot. So we’ve made use of some of what we shot. How we’re treating it is that the first ’season’ was more like a pilot. We’re calling this the First Season.”

I had the pleasure of getting to check out the first four episodes and while I recognized a few of the scenes as having come from the original “slice-of-life” episodes, for a first-time watcher, the transition between the two is pretty seamless. “We shot the 9 shorts in June 2008, posted a trailer in July, and posted the finished shorts in early September,” explained Woodley. “The rest of it we shot in 2009 – mostly in August, with a bit in September. The 2008 stuff we shot all at the New Jersey Renaissance Kingdom) before opening and during the day while customers were there. This year, we shot three days in Pennsylvania, with a group called Midsummer Productions who do the Midsummer Renn Faire, a very small faire they do in Lehighton, PA on the weekends in May and June.” They also shot a few interiors in New York, a day in Prospect Park, as well as some scenes with comedian Dave Hill at the Maryland faire. Mandy Bruno and Robert Bogue of Guiding Light both appear in substantial roles, and there may be a couple of other cameos towards the end of the series, according to Woodley.

The folks at Dinosaur Diorama have been busy this month, serving up its first full-length episode of The Burg since 2007 that clocked in at a whopping 20 minutes. Then on November 17th, they premiered their first season of the “Renntertainment” comedy, Alls Faire.

The recession really knocked the pants off this country in the past two years, but if there’s any shine on the economic turd it’s that at least Williamsburg is cool again. Sure the trust fund kids took a hit when the market tanked, but real estate got cheap again and the Yupsters thinned out. So what better time to bring back Brooklyn hipster comedy The Burg?

The indie web series from Brooklyn-based Dinosaur Diorama, the same team behind All’s Faire and Vuguru’s The All-For-Nots, is back with its first full-length episode since 2007. The 20-minute episode, “Change” (above) is also the show’s longest, starting off with a catchup of what happened since Xander’s season-ending autobiomentary .

Xander (Matt Yaeger) fills us in on his posse—Courtney (Kelli Giddish) is moving out of The Burg, heading to LA for a TV show gig and Ryan (Jeff Skowron) is losing his grip on sanity. Jed (Bob McClure) and Xander realize they live in “the coolest neighborhood of the coolest borough in the coolest city in the world,” and decide to make it their mission to set some new hipster trends—pogo sticks, Kitten Shirts, skorts. Oh, and Xander has a kid? Spring (Lindsay Broad) tries to keep Courtney from selling out her ideals for a beach house, turning to hipster savior Obama for some direction.

What a night! Nearly 1,000 web creators, producers, actors and other web television industry folks packed maniaTV Studios (yes, home of the old Gilligan’s Island soundstage) to network, imbibe, and assert that web television is a force to be reckoned with. We put on a showcase of web series from the Hollywood Web Television Meetup’s community, screening All’s Faire from Dinosaur Diorama, Leaving Bliss from Shanna Micko, GOLD from David Nett, Lost Parodies from The Fine Brothers, The Meatgrinder Show from Chris Erb and Dal Wolf, Valley Peaks from Chicken Cobra, Is It Safe? from Pith-e Productions, and Puppy Love from L Studios.

From Thom Woodley and Bob McClure comes All’s Faire, a comedy slice of life web series with an ensemble cast of minstrels, wenches, warlocks, and royals. Think The Office at a Renaissance Faire. Previously, Woodley created The Burg and The All-For-Nots with Dinosaur Diorama partner Kathleen Grace. (See our recent interview with Woodley [...]

After months of tracking the exploits of The All-For-Nots on their popular web series, we wondered what would become of our favorite make-believe indie band now that their season has ended. Particularly after their rocking set on Kimmel, we were curious if this fictional group had become non-fiction. Will the band play on? Will Vuguru renew the series?

A princess, white knight, celtic warrior, stage manager, mud wench, armorer, wizard, and some mistrels are some of the characters in Dinosaur Diorama’s newest web series, “All’s Faire,” about the adventures of a crew of some real-life Renaissance Fair goers. Writer/Producer Thom Woodley of Dinosaur Diorama, who is reportedly a “Ren Faire” expert, and Bob [...]

For anyone who has ever gotten their feet drenched in beer at a frat party, seen Elle Woods bond with her sorority sisters in Legally Blonde, or wondered what the secret Greek initiation ceremonies are really like, TheWB.com’s new fall series Sorority Forever, premiering September 8th, is the show to watch.
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