October 2008 Archives

Well well - prank videos have just moved up a notch in my book!

Imagine my surprise when I saw this news article - apparently it was ME that cost Obama his presidential leadership, naughty me for forgetting to vote!

The stars have been supporting team Obama in various ads - and I think this is quite a clever ad too.

Check it out:

http://www.cnnbcvideo.com/index.html?nid=GIzjxfrqyiaBJvDyjkSvyDcyOTk3Njc-&referred_by=13031853-5aL6adx

I saw this cool film clip and thought I would share it..

The Horrors: She Is The New Thing

Check it out here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTgOe9Uda54

What's your favorite music video at the moment?

Hail Filmmakers,

This is the kind of thing our friends over at TRAINING WHEELS usually ‘blog about, but we thought it was worth pointing out a recent watershed moment in the morphing of free-to-air television into an online model.

It involves the US comedy institution SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (SNL) and comedian Tina Fey’s seven-week return to her old show. Fey has used her startling resemblance to the Republican’s Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin; to do a series of impersonations lampooning Governor Palin’s as a serious political contender. In the lead up to the US General election, these sketches have been very popular with audiences.

As this story from Associated Press says, “More people are checking out Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin impersonations Saturday night later than Saturday Night Live.”  What we think that sentence is attempting to say is that there are more people checking out the sketches on-line than are actually tuning into the show itself.

Which would usually be cause for alarm for the TV powers that be – if the audience is migrating to the ‘net, surely they’re missing out on all those expensive TV commercials?  Naturally, the on-line sketches come with ad messages on the NBC site; and overall the Tina Fey’s sketches are thought to be one of the reasons that the first three episodes of SNL pulled in a 49% larger audience than at the same time last year.

For those of you not au fait with Fey, she was the head writer of SNL before leaving that show to work on her hit sitcom 30 ROCK. Both shows air on NBC.

If you want to check out the sketches, avoid getting Rickrolled on YouTube and see them on the NBC site.

1. Palin and Hillary Clinton
2. Palin interviewed by Katie Couric
3. Palin debates Joe Biden
4. Palin meets Fey

Yours FIlmically,

Phil Jeng Kane
Production Support Department