A thriller of a different flavor, “Inside Experience” offers social media participants to help move the plot of the story and decide the outcome of events. “Inside,” starring Emmy Rosseum, is an online thriller funded by Toshiba and Intel that debuted July 25th.
Have you ever wanted to get inside the head of a filmmaker or look behind the scenes as a movie unfolds? Have you ever wanted to decide a movie’s plot or a character’s fate while watching that movie develop? Here’s your chance to participate in a fully immersive movie experience.
Rosseum plays “Christina Perasso,” a young woman whose life takes a turn when she leaves a Seattle coffee shop and ends up in an unknown room with no outside contact. She has no idea how she got in this room – or why – but when she discovers her kidnappers left her a Toshiba Satellite P775 laptop, powered by an Intel second generation chip, she sets up Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other accounts and starts trying to reach the outside.
Directed by D.J. Caruso, the laptop is a perfect idea as a tool for Rosseum’s character because it can also serve as her social media webcam, she uses it to show her viewers her surroundings and to also find clues and ask viewers to assist her to unravel these puzzles, in hopes of finding out more about her capture, surroundings, and (hopefully!) eventual escape.
Caruso says, “We wanted to make this an addictive experience for the viewer, … whether they’re watching the film segments or participating in the social media segments, the whole experience makes an entirely different film, so viewers or participants can help steer the film in a different direction.
Social Media Director Ben Tricklebank says, “it takes a traditional storytelling narrative, but tries to allow it to unfold through social media… and creating a story through those platforms.” Caruso adds, “it’s a little bit unnerving, but I mean that in an exciting way as a filmmaker.”
Fans can participate in several ways, through the site’s own blog, through the project’s Facebook page or through Twitter, by following @theinsideexp and the hashtag #theinsideexperience
Fans can post clues, offer poor Christina advice and support and some clues and ideas will be worked into the series episodes.
Definitely a different kind of thriller – one in which the viewer isn’t a passive watcher but an interactive participant. The new wave of movie going future or not, it’s a cool concept and – warning! Very addictive!
In the ever increasingly complex world of company buyouts, Snapfish announced on Monday their purchase of Motionbox, a video platform for families and friends to share their memories online. To make things even more complex, this actually comes shortly after Motionb0x acquired the highly successful personal video blogging service Viddyou in October. While this may seem like a bold move for Snapfish, which deals mostly in printing and sharing photographs, it is upon closer inspection, a natural evolution for the company (which was bought out by computer giant HP in 2005). What Snapfish has realized is that even though photos are important ways to store and share memories, it’s no secret that with the dwindling cost of high end cameras and a veritable bevy of software to edit them with, that people have begun to turn to video as their main way of sharing memories with loved ones. At the same time, not everyone wants that video to be seen by thousands of complete strangers on sites like YouTube and Facebook, which is one of the biggest reasons for Motionbox’s existence. This same idea also held a lot of promise as an upgrade to Snapfish’s service, so HP naturally decided to join the fray by buying the already developed technology of Motionbox.
As for the site itself, HP says the “current Motionbox site” will remain open until August 10, after which the service will be moved over to Snapfish.com. Unfortunately this means that for users of Motionbox, their videos will need to be downloaded from the site before it moves over to Snapfish. Thankfully, for this trouble, Snapfish is giving Motionbox Premium members a free year of Snapfish’s video service.
Gateway announced its newest line of notebooks: the NV Series. The NV Series has a sleek, ergonomic design and includes models for budget-conscious students and families, to systems packed with the latest technology for video editing and casual gaming, including…
- Intel Core i3 and Core i5 processors as well as AMD Athlon and AMD Turion processors.
- Up to 4GB of DDR3 memory that is upgradeable to 8GB.
- The notebooks also feature media card readers that accept popular media cards (Secure Digital, Multimedia Card, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro and xD) as well as large-capacity hard drives ranging from 320GB to 640GB of capacity, enabling customers to easily and quickly access, download, store and share their digital media content.
- The MyBackup function gives consumers a way to quickly and easily back-up all important files to another location such as a USB drive, external hard disk drive, or another hard drive partition.
Since all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, the NV line is sure to include plenty of entertainment capabilities, such as…
- High Definition Ultrabright LCD widescreen 16:9 display. The NV5 15.6-inch display models boast a 1366×768 resolution, and the Gateway NV7 1600×900 resolution; great for HD movies and video.
- Blu-ray players for top-of-the-line movie-viewing (select models), as well as DVD and CD recording
- An integrated HD webcam with 1280×1025 resolution
- ATI Mobility Radeon HD graphics for PC gaming
- Seamless social networking capabilities, like the integrated “social networking” button which allows customers to access their social networks, including Facebook, YouTube and Flickr, with a single touch of a button.
The Gateway NV Series will be available in a variety of configurations with the MSRP starting at $529.99. The first model to be available will be the Gateway NV59C09u, with additional models in the line becoming available in the coming weeks.
The FTC, (Federal Trade Commission), announced this week that it is beefing up the rules regarding paid endorsements by bloggers and Tweeters saying they love/use a product but in reality are shills for the company. This new regulation by the FTC is the first real change they’ve had in the rules since the early 1980s. From celebrities endorsing products on shows like “Oprah” to unknown so-called “users” who rave about the products on their blog, Twitter or Facebook pages, the Truth in Advertising guidelines didn’t touch social media until now. Read the rest of this entry »
Videomaker.com has a new look! Thanks to the hard work of many of our team members, we were able to launch our shiny new website yesterday. Not only are we proud of the new look, but we’ve added some new features, as well.
You may have noticed our Highlights section now has a “roll-over” feature, to help you find our newest articles with ease.
Also, from our homepage, you can “Connect with Videomaker” and subscribe to Videomaker’s Channel on YouTube, become a fan of our Facebook page, be our friend on Myspace, and follow us on Twitter, all with just a click of a button.
So take a look around, enjoy the new site, and be sure to leave a comment below to let us know what you think!
Anyone who knows me knows that I constantly rant about the blatherings on social networking sites. People who so mistrust the whole Big Brother concept and identity theft woes seem to think nothing of posting everything from extremely personal data to photos of their kids on a social site that is completely run on automation. And they connect with unknown strangers who connect with unknown strangers who connect… etc, until they have a huge pile of virtual friends who in the real world they might not have given out their name to, much less their home phone number.
A while back, I pulled down my Facebook account because a very strange person from my past contacted me and insisted on “reconnecting” as friends.
This person who is NOT a friend, but is one of those former coworker-from-hell personalities, contacted me via FB requesting a friend invite. We were never friends before but she continued to send me badgering email requests so badly that I had to remove my account. I had a public profile, and was unable to change it to a private one, despite going through all the steps to make it so.
Recently, technology and media journalist Shelly Palmer wrote in his blog about a scary moment when his wife’s Facebook account was actually hijacked by a hacker and her friends received strange notices from the hacker posing as her. Read that scary account here.
I, for one, am signing off FB for now, I have other things to do than talk about myself all day. (As, ironically, I write this blog about myself!)
A while back I wrote about the crazy Twittering life many people have gotten into, sending updates about everything they’ve been doing in their day-to-day routine. As if the world cares. Yet it seems like everyone, even
Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn; networking sites just to connect with anyone and everyone. YouTube, text messaging and photos and video over mobile phones; sharing inane data on any subject to anyone anytime. Someone gave a page from a calendar with the caption: “Blogging – Never before have so many people with so little to say said so much to so few.” It shows a woman working on a laptop sitting on an incredible ledge over-looking what looks like Devil’s Tower in Wyoming from Steven Spielberg’s 1977 movie, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” I love it. I hung it in my cubicle. Read the rest of this entry »
Twitter just might become the next Social Networking site to become a Google enterprise.
We heard this morning from Shelly Palmer, host and editor of Mediabytes that there’s talk going around the circuit that Google is looking to add Twitter to it’s host of internet companies that it now owns.
Palmer’s blog links to a story in Tech Crunch stating that Facebook offered to buy the social site for a half a billion dollars a while back, but Twitter turned the popular social networking site down.
Facebook, like MySpace, is a networking site where users can join others’ groups, and add photos to their pages and send messages, updates, photos and other personal information to their selected friends. You can allow your page to be public or private, and some people like to collect “friends” all over the world. Read the rest of this entry »
The FTC, (Federal Trade Commission), announced this week that it is beefing up the rules regarding paid endorsements by bloggers and Tweeters saying they love/use a product but in reality are shills for the company. This 
Anyone who knows me knows that I constantly rant about the blatherings on social networking sites. People who so mistrust the whole Big Brother concept and identity theft woes seem to think nothing of posting everything from extremely personal data to photos of their kids on a social site that is completely run on automation. And they connect with unknown strangers who connect with unknown strangers who connect… etc, until they have a huge pile of virtual friends who in the real world they might not have given out their name to, much less their home phone number.
A while back I wrote about the crazy Twittering life many people have gotten into, sending updates about everything they’ve been doing in their day-to-day routine. As if the world cares. Yet it seems like everyone, even
Facebook, like MySpace, is a networking site where users can join others’ groups, and add photos to their pages and send messages, updates, photos and other personal information to their selected friends. You can allow your page to be public or private, and some people like to collect “friends” all over the world. 
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