Bill said: For some reason, I can watch Jonny chat for 45 minutes or Phil talk about his tech ideas for an hour with no problem... Yet I found myself struggling through 8 at a time of scripted "follow these characters through their 'adventures'" type of programming. It has to do with the fack that Jonny and Phil are live. You don't know what's going to happen.
I think that is an interesting observation Bill - part of it is bc it is live but I also think part of it is you know them - you have a personal connection with them, not to mention their topics. We are seeing an increasingly short attention span with our multitasking hyper-stimulated lifestyles. You said, "You don't know what's going to happen" but at the same time, you do know - in the sense that your friends are a known quantity and quality - you know your time is not wasted bc even if nothing outrageous happens, you have shared energy with people you like/love. You won't have completely "wasted" your time, which is how I sometimes feel after watching "entertainment." The challenge for producers, big and small, is how to capture someone's interest (emotional or intellectual) in a shorter and shorter amount of time so that you even have a chance to make that personal connection. This does not seem to apply to things that are truly short form and purely comedic, as evidenced by the higher viewing numbers of frenchmaid and ninja. Comedy is in its own world, but as we see, that is not easy to do! Rox -- Roxanne Darling "o ke kai" means "of the sea" in hawaiian 808-384-5554 Video --> http://www.beachwalks.tv Company -- > http://www.barefeetstudios.com http://www.twitter.com/roxannedarling [snipped]
