How long do you want it to be? Do you want to have one at all? 1. The ability to do what you want without fitting into the kind of structures that limit, say, work for television is one of the very reasons to use the web as a venue in the first place. Why seasons to begin with?
2. Seasons, though, can be a convenient marking point, like chapters, like volumes, like any other temporal punctuation. And they provide you with a nice break between sets of work in a project. 3. Every piece or series or anything has its own correct length, number of episodes, etc. It's whatever value results in the most powerful communication of its subject. Time slots and series packaging are part of what harms the quality of what's on tv. It's the reason we have to suffer through 58 minute documentaries on PBS that should be either 47 minutes, 105 minutes, or 52 minutes, or whatever. "Feature length" is part of what encourages filmmakers to fall back on the same limited variations of Freytag's pyramid to structure their narratives. Features are this long, plays have one three or five acts, the opening act should play for 35 minutes... how can anyone know ahead of time the amount of time that's actually needed? It's like asking painters to leave out the color red, because it will be supplied in the needed saturation and tint by the network later on. Time is the primary element of film, video and sound. So take it back. On the other hand limitations are liberating. Just opinions from a ranting editor during a render of someone else's video, Brook On 2/9/08, Charles Iliya Krempeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > I don't know if everyone saw this on NewTeeVee... > > http://newteevee.com/2008/02/08/how-long-should-a-web-season-be/ > > I thought it was a really interesting article. > > How long should a "season" be for a video blog and Internet TV show? > > Does the concept of a "season" even make sense for every type of vlog out > there? > > -- > Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. > http://ChangeLog.ca/ > > Motorsport Videos > http://TireBiterZ.com/ > > Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ > -- _______________________________________________________ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
