Record Tv Shows On Computer

Record Tv Shows On Computer

Record Tv Shows On Computer

Storytelling has been embraced by each new technology, from theatre to radio to film and television, and now it’s the turn of the internet. It is still early days, but the last few years have seen a boom in dramas made specifically for the web.

The Origins of Internet Drama

Web drama was born way back in 1995 with the launch of US online soap opera, The Spot. Based around the lives of a group of Southern Californian twenty-somethings, The Spot accrued a massive following. What made it so popular was not the video content alone, but the social community surrounding it and the interactivity with characters through ‘character diaries’; all years before the rise of social networking and blogging.

YouTube, Video Blogs and Online Interactive Fiction

However, the current crop of online dramas descend not from The Spot but from the YouTube video-blog (or vlogs) of a sixteen year old girl, lonelygirl15. Or not, as it turned out. After months of speculation and controversy, it was revealed that lonelygirl15 was not a teenager named Bree, but an actress named Jessica Rose and the blog, not true-life confessions but an intricately written drama by three amateur filmmakers from LA.