{"id":1373,"date":"2007-08-23T19:20:59","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T23:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2007-08-27T14:00:11","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T18:00:11","slug":"afterworld-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1373","title":{"rendered":"Afterworld Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the few of you who recall my earlier mention of the webisodic video series, <em>Afterworld<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1313\">reLink<\/a>), it&#8217;s getting some attention today as a result of a deal made with MySpace to syndicate the series. From an article over on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/business\/la-fi-afterworld23aug23,1,5551414.story?coll=la-headlines-business-enter&#038;ctrack=1&#038;cset=true\">LA Times (Link)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What we&#8217;re trying to do is create a unique form of entertainment as well as an original business model,&#8221; said Stan Rogow, former executive producer of Disney Channel&#8217;s hit show &#8220;Lizzie McGuire&#8221; and one of the principals in Electric Farm Entertainment.<br \/>\n&#8230;<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8220;The idea was to create a new hybrid medium for entertainment using these different forms of technology so that fans can get their daily snack of entertainment when and where they want,&#8221; Friedman said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a decent write-up with plenty more tidbits. Just ignore the non-sensical &#8220;photo-realistic&#8221; comment. As I mentioned earlier, <em>Afterworld<\/em> is being created using some very common software packages. It&#8217;s no where near looking as photorealistic as today&#8217;s next gen videogames.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mashable also carried a <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2007\/08\/23\/afterworld-myspace\/\">mention of it (Link)<\/a>. And that piece refers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paidcontent.org\/entry\/419-afterworld-brings-big-budget-series-to-life-on-myspace\/\">to paidContent.org (Link)<\/a>&#8230; which sounds a lot like a compressed and lossy version of the LA Times article (including using the aforementioned &#8220;photo-real&#8221; comment).<\/p>\n<p>Oh-kay.<\/p>\n<p>So maybe there&#8217;s only one <em>real<\/em> story. Somewhere. It&#8217;s still interesting news and the LA Time&#8217;s piece is still worth checking out.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest take away for me is the budget: $3 million. That sounds like a lot of money from what I&#8217;ve seen. But it does get me thinking&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>{p.s. For anyone who hasn&#8217;t seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watchtheguild.com\/\">&#8220;The Guild&#8221; webisodes (Link)<\/a>, I expect they&#8217;ll be getting some attention. Funny stuff.}<\/p>\n<p><em>via <a href=\"http:\/\/cinematech.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/two-from-la-times-net-video.html\">CinemaTech<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the few of you who recall my earlier mention of the webisodic video series, Afterworld (reLink), it&#8217;s getting some attention today as a result of a deal made with MySpace to syndicate the series. From an article over on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1373\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}