Where Is The Drama?
The web is choc full of comedic web series and shorts. Some are funny, most are not, but as I discussed previously, it is easier to be funny on the web. Creating characters and drama is difficult when you have little time. That said a web series has potential for great characters, yet I have not been able to find many people up to the task. So I’d like to ask you guys, what are you working on? Have you found decent online dramas? Where and what are they?
There are some good dramas on the web, but they’re most definitely both rarer and harder to do. Some of the ones I’ve enjoyed are:
Mark Gardner’s Cell: the Series
Bernie Su’s Compulsions
Tony Valenzuela’s Black Box TV
Tina Ward and Susan Miller’s Anyone But Me
Daryn Strauss’ Downsized
Chris Preksta’s The Mercury Men
Machinima’s RCVR
Christopher Kubasik’s The Booth at the End
also The Confession with Keifer Sutherland and John Hurt, which was on Hulu but has apparently been pulled down in anticipation of its release on Blu-Ray.
That said, dramatic webseries are few and far between and, if well done, offer a great opportunity for filmmakers to distinguish themselves online.
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broadcastassassin reblogged this from erikurtz and added:
some good dramas on the web,...they’re most definitely both rarer and harder
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doctorwhatwebseries answered:
I completely agree that web content has almost unanimously tended towards the comedic, but is it competent comedy, or simply derivative?
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