The web is the first media that forces television actors to reconsider their communication model. Since ever, television is built on a "top to down" model. The channel choose the program and the spectator receives it. It is a passive way. The web 2.0 TV free thinkers are creating the "à la carte" TV. If you can create your own programs with the VOD since a few years, you can now write the scenarios of your series episodes.
Where are the Joneses? is a 2007 British daily online filmed sitcom created by the Imagination Group and sponsored by Ford of Europe, with writing support from Baby Cow Productions. The script of each two to five minute episode is a collaboratively written by viewers via wikis and social networking sites such as mySpace, Facebook, Flickr and blogs, with each character having their own Twitter feed.
The faux-documentary style video is filmed daily on location and is also available via YouTube. The first episode was released on 15 June 2007.
The plot follows Dawn Jones who discovers in the opening episode that she is the child of a sperm donor and follows her travels around Europe to find her 26 siblings. It stars Emma Fryer in the lead role, with Neil Edmond as Ian, the first brother she locates and who travels with her.
Unusually, the production is released under a Creative Commons 'Attribution-Share alike' licence, allowing it to be freely re-edited, even commercially, and press coverage has considered it as 'Wikipedia-like' in allowing anyone to edit and contribute to the storyline.
The internet-only release on the back of the current mania for online social networking has also generated substantial independent blog review and analysis.
The faux-documentary style video is filmed daily on location and is also available via YouTube. The first episode was released on 15 June 2007.
The plot follows Dawn Jones who discovers in the opening episode that she is the child of a sperm donor and follows her travels around Europe to find her 26 siblings. It stars Emma Fryer in the lead role, with Neil Edmond as Ian, the first brother she locates and who travels with her.
Unusually, the production is released under a Creative Commons 'Attribution-Share alike' licence, allowing it to be freely re-edited, even commercially, and press coverage has considered it as 'Wikipedia-like' in allowing anyone to edit and contribute to the storyline.
The internet-only release on the back of the current mania for online social networking has also generated substantial independent blog review and analysis.
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