[videoblogging] Re: CBS videoblogs

2008-08-24 Thread Bill Cammack
I agree with Dan, entirely. That was the point of my previous post on this topic. In case people watched that and thought it was something that was done in a bootstrapped fashion, please refer to the dual-camera shoot, complete with boom operator (read: a third crew member that's getting paid to

Re: [videoblogging] Re: CBS videoblogs

2008-08-24 Thread Rupert
Yeah - sorry if I wasn't clear. That seemed like a rebuttal of my point, but I assumed it'd be clear from the context of everything I've written here and from my videoblog that I wasn't disagreeing with Dan's comment that "It looks like it took a team of people being paid a lot of money to

[videoblogging] Re: CBS videoblogs

2008-08-24 Thread Bill Cammack
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah - sorry if I wasn't clear. That seemed like a rebuttal of my > point, but I assumed it'd be clear from the context of everything > I've written here and from my videoblog that I wasn't disagreeing > with Dan's c

Re: [videoblogging] Re: CBS videoblogs

2008-08-24 Thread Rupert
> On 24-Aug-08, at 5:56 AM, Bill Cammack wrote: > > Now, thanks to what you said... This finally makes sense to me. Pay > the thousands of dollars for the studio because you can turn around > and tell someone else to pay you even MORE money, plus your percentage > for doing the live episodes of you

[videoblogging] Re: CBS videoblogs

2008-08-24 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In this case, why on earth would the producer set up a low budget > videoblog for clarkandmichael.com, with a total cost per episode of > just a few hundred dollars, when he can artificially inflate the > budget by

Re: [videoblogging] Re: CBS videoblogs

2008-08-24 Thread Rupert
What is a videoblog? It's fair to say that past discussions on this list have shown that opinions differ somewhat violently on this issue... but there is a school of thought that says that 'videoblogging' has become associated with a personal documentary style of videomaking distributed on

Re: [videoblogging] Re: CBS videoblogs

2008-08-24 Thread Brook Hinton
I have a very different take on C&M. Nowhere in it is there any pretense that it is personal, that even within its fictional context it is created by the two stars, or that it is produced without a camera and sound crew. Note the intro to episode one: "They hired a film crew". Then the hyper met

Re: [videoblogging] Re: CBS videoblogs

2008-08-24 Thread Rupert
OK. I told myself I wasn't going to say anything more about this because I have too much to do. But. You're kind of right. But. I don't know. I just... It's *not* The Office. maybe that's the problem for me. I just think they do it badly. And worse, I think they do it in a way that's very TV an

Re: [videoblogging] Re: CBS videoblogs

2008-08-24 Thread Brook Hinton
Almost nothing reaches the heights of the Gervais version of The Office. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[videoblogging] Re: CBS videoblogs

2008-08-24 Thread ruperthowe
I know. But I didn't really mean that I don't like it because it's not as funny as The Office. I meant that it's too much like The Office to avoid direct comparison. If it was doing something revolutionary with the form that The Office set down, I'd be more forgiving that it's comedy/quality did

Re: [videoblogging] Re: CBS videoblogs

2008-08-24 Thread Kary Rogers
I'm a little confused by the confusion over Clark and Michael. This was a CBS-funded scripted comedy web series that debuted in May of 2007. It was created, written by, and stars real-life friends Michael Cera and Clark Duke. They play fictionalized versions of themselves. I don't think it was e

Re: [videoblogging] Re: CBS videoblogs

2008-08-24 Thread Kary Rogers
That said, I don't think CBS threw a lot of money at this project. It was being developed in 2006 and made in 2007, so that was kinda early in the game for a studio to put something out there. I saw an interview with Clark and Michael in which they said there wasn't a lot of money involved and th