HBO Spares No Expense on New Web Series
I mean that literally. HBO’s web series, set in an elevator, looks like it costs $5.00 per episode to produce. At that’s a good thing since this is what you get:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVVb70pe9b0&hl=en]
Via Tilzy I learned:
“When he signed on to Runawaybox, Tondorf wanted to create a series “impossibly simple” to produce, a locked-frame, one-take show that could deliver a fresh episode every day. “I thought that something from an elevator security camera might be a fun idea, seeing as we’re all trapped in a small box with people we don’t know for an amount of time, often dropping in on their conversations and having no idea what they’re talking about.”
Christ, people in the industry wonder why nobody is watching their content on the internet but they produce content that is so completely marginal and doesn’t look anything like the content they would offer on TV. It doesn’t even look as good as most of the UGC stuff out there.
Why bother, HBO?
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June 16, 2008 2:26 pm
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