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!
The NAB show (National Association of Broadcasters Event) officially kicks off today. Videomaker will be on site providing coverage real-time via our blog and twitter account, fixed to our smartphones and laptops we will keep you up to the date with the latest industry news. Got Tips? Tricks? Press Releases? Send them on over to dsine@videomaker.com
Grab your camcorders and mics, (and maybe some zombie make-up!), and get ready to video-tape the first of what promises to be an annual event: the world’s largest “Thriller” dance!
In tribute to Michael Jackson, and because it’s good clean fun, someone started up the international Thriller dance-a-thon that is supposed to go on all over the world – at the same time.
A website, Thrill the World, was created just to organize this event, and you can find out there where the Thriller dance is going on in your neighborhood, or try to get one started… but hurry, the dance is happening this coming Saturday. 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 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!
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 »
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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 
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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