by Angelique Toschi on January 11th, 2010
What if someone gave you the chance to start over? That is the question asked in the new lonelygirl15: The Show Is Yours Season 2 trailer. While knowing that this will have something to do with the mythology of the lonelygirl franchise, this is also a question that could be asked to anybody in their teens or older. We all have things we wish we had done differently, better, or not at all. There are always circumstances beyond our control that are not to our liking. Not one person can say that, given the chance, they wouldn’t want to “start over”.
By asking this question Austin McConnell, the producer of LG15: Outbreak and a dedicated lg15 community member, is making an immediate connection with his audience and allowing them to put themselves in his young protagonist’s shoes. By doing this there is hope that LG15: Outbreak not only will cater to the already established community of LG15 fans, but also to a wider, newer audience that has yet to be introduced to the mythology.
From the trailer alone it appears that LG15: Outbreak will be a return to the roots of lonelygirl15, which started with a girl vlogging from her bedroom. Although very little of the story has been revealed thus far, what has been seen has shown exceptional production quality, what can be assumed to be visuals of the main characters, and a lot of questions that will, hopefully, be answered as the story unfolds.
by Drew Baldwin on July 31st, 2009
Last night the excitement in the air was electrifying at the Red Carpet Opening Night Gala for the 4th Annual Independent Television Festival, festival for independently produced, original and innovative television pilots and web series. ITVFest offers opportunities for web television creators like showcasing their work to a live audience and the chance to pitch development executives that can bring their projects to the next level.
On Monday, August 3 Tubefilter is proudly presenting ITVFest Web Television Day, which features screenings of the Official Web Series Selections from the ITVFest,
by Marc Hustvedt on June 12th, 2009
Is mid-range web TV too risky?
The middle ground of web television, somewhere in between homebrew video blogs and high-end celeb-laden studio series, appears to be murky waters. The closing of digital studios 60Frames and maniaTV stand as somber reminders that web television is still shuffling to find its business model. And it’s boiling down to cost structure according to EQAL co-founder Greg Goodfried. EQAL
EQAL, founded by Goodfried along with Miles Beckett, is of course the web studio that made its mark with arguably the most successful dramatic web series to date, lonelygirl15, setting themselves up for top seat in the serialized drama space. Follow-up series like LG15: The Resistance, Bebo-backed KateModern and Polish-lonelygirl spinoff n1ckola basically locked up the genre for the venture-backed studio.
by Drew Baldwin on January 5th, 2009
With all the lonelygirl15 imitators popping up again and again, it’s no surprise that the folks at EQAL have decided to further capitalize on the webcast phenom with a new contest called LG15: The Show Is Yours, where producers submit a 5-minute pilot and 8-week treatment for “social show” derivative of the LG15 Universe by building upon the mythology of lonelygirl15, KateModern, and LG15: The Resistance.
According to inside LG15, the official LG15 insider blog, a social show is defined as “an experience on a website where a community participates in a specific entertainment property by viewing and discussing videos and other multimedia content, and
by Tubefilter News on September 23rd, 2008
Tubefilter is gearing up for the fall season, with brand new shows about to launch left and right as more studios and independent producers catch the web television bug. But in this week’s picks we take a look at the sequels–a testament to the power of web shows to engage audiences and keep them hooked, [...]
by Marc Hustvedt on August 27th, 2008
More details are emerging from web studio EQAL on the upcoming series, LG15: The Resistance, set to debut online September 20th. Fans of the long-running lonelygirl15 franchise which ended earlier this month, have been well aware of the upcoming series built to release on the same LG15.com website that its predecessor inhabited for its [...]
