"Using your experiences on this project and relating your programmes to other webisodes you have researched, discuss how taking account of the online audience affects the process of showing creative work"
Our project is called show project, for it I would make and distribute a micro-series online - webisode. Micro-series on television and radio have a lot of disadvantages, while online distribution has a lot of advantages, for example; publishing work online give anyone with an internet instant access to the material, this gives the video an instant audience. Without the internet publishing videos as a student with such a wide audience for free would have been next to impossible. Other media types such as photography have been given the same treatment, you can upload photos sites such as Flickr for a more artistic pictures while other websites for social networking such as Facebook give you a chance to share pciture of yourself, friends and social events such as gigs or parties. For videos you can upload it to public broadcasting websites like youtube or vimeo. With these sites anybody can publish their work as long as they have access to the internet and a video camera. This is why the internet has changed the world.
I mentioned Facebook earlier, this website was our main outlet for information around my webisodes, such as details on shoots, character updates when and where my episodes were being punlished, but the main purpose was a fan site. I chose Facebook over other websites such as Myspace because Facebook is more commonly used by a wider range of people from all ages to race, there aren't many people I know who don't have facebook, even my Grandma and Granddad use it. I said ealier about uploading photos to Facebook, you can also upload Videos which Facebook users can then comment on. These comments were important to us as I could take on board the viewers feedback, both positive and negative, I could then make changes to the episodes on how the viewers felt.
Facebook is also home to other webseries such as 'Living with the Infidels' or 'The guild'. The Guild unlike our webseries has been going for alot longer, a much wider fan base and in my opinion a much better weseries. They have even managed to get promotional finance from Microsoft due to growth in technoligies you can now download and view films and videos from Xbox live for the Xbox 360 such as The Guild. This asks the question; Why has The Guild stuck with Facebook and not branched out further? Facebook is much more personal than a website, users can comment on the The Guilds page, on photos and videos and you are more likely to stumble upon a facebook page rather than a website. While a website a user may not feel they are going to get heard.
Due to the project being a student project, there were things I could and couldn't do due to working to a client (our teacher). Such as length and having the class logo after the video, but other rules came later; after I finished my first episode I realised there was a lot of swearing, due to this the teacher decided there were to be no swearing so I could show my work to other students and teaching officials, this included other offensive material for example gore or sexual references. Due to this I had to bleep out swearing before the first episode was uploaded, this was immediately picked upon by my audience and myself and both thought it sounded ridiculous for this reason I decided to cut out any form of swearing as I didn't want to use bleeps, this turned out well and the audience responded well.
The audience also helped me in my work for the opening credits, I wanted to make something creative and up to date, I used whip cuts and music from current artists, one being The Avalanches. I also tried to create a title logo which involved current media, for exmaple graffiti, but then I wanted to go for a more professional look this is why I decided to research other episodes and their titles.
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