I’m pleased to release a new sketch I directed and edited, “Politically Correct Andrew Dice Clay”
Starring Aaron Berg
Written by Josh “JR” Ravitz
I’m pleased to release a new sketch I directed and edited, “Politically Correct Andrew Dice Clay”
Starring Aaron Berg
Written by Josh “JR” Ravitz
Based on Dish Network adding a commercial auto-skip feature (and the subsequent complaints) and my previous speculations, I thought it’d be interesting to discuss what TV might look like if (when) advertisers stop advertising for everything but live events like sports and news.
Here’s what’s true:
Imagine all advertising stops for non-live shows (everything but the news and sports). How else might TV shows make money?
Here’s my idea: Have each user pay $X a month for unlimited video, then pay each show a percentage, based on how much of it the user watches.
A cable box-like device would measure how many M minutes you watch of each show and add up how much TV you watch each month.
That show’s income could = M (minutes of show watched) / T (Total Minutes of TV this month) * $X (the monthly service fee)
In other words, each show gets the % of your monthly viewing fee which you spent watching that show.
Example: The service costs $40 per month, I watch 5 episodes of The Office with each episode being 20 minutes long, and I watch 800 total minutes of TV in the month. The creators of The Office would receive (20 * 5) / 800 * 40 (1/8 of 40) which is $5. With 9 million viewers, these numbers add up quickly. Of course, the company (most likely cable, satelite or dot com) that creates and adminsters such a system would charge an administrative fee (I’d imagine it around 10% – 20%).
Some Consequences / Impacts:
I co-wrote and edited these two videos.
“Max’s Long Day”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPoUxBaPA6s
“Max’s Long-OR Day”
(The faster, funnier version with multiple endings and fewer morality tales.)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K2t0SmtaaU
Here’s my second go around at doing a 48 Hour Film Project. I’m quite proud of this one, even if it didn’t win any awards. If you like the film, please share it with friends.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEo-1bSmaF4
Last weekend I participated in the 48 Hour Film Project in NYC. Basically, each team gets 48 hours to write, film, edit and submit a 4 to 7 minute film. You draw a genre and are then given a prop, a line of dialogue and a character name and have to work it all into your movie.
We had:
Genre: “Film De Femme” (strong female character)
Prop: Tennis Ball
Dialogue: “Are you sure?”
Character: Ethan St John, President of ___
Our creative process was:
Friday 10pm – 1am: 8 people shooting around ideas for a film, agreeing on an idea then story arcing it
Saturday 1am – 3am: 5 of us who were going to be writing and acting in it and the director wrote a first draft
Saturday 3am – 5am: 3 of us wrote a second draft while sending everyone else to sleep
Saturday 7am: Start setting up for filming and cast the roles, go through the second draft and make additional changes with the whole team
Saturday 9am: PA’s, PM’s and DP show up
Saturday 11am – 11pm: Film the different scenes
Saturday 11pm – Sunday 10am: Edit the first cut
Sunday 10am to 1pm: Give notes on the first cut and re-edit
Sunday 1pm to 7pm: Fix up the sound, make final touch ups, export and submit the film
I wound up not acting in it, which was okay with me because there was so many other things for me to do. I wound up sleeping 5 hours in two nights.
My favorite part of this is how 5 comedians came together and wrote a dark movie that has very little comedy in it…
Last thought: I highly recommend everyone pick a “48 Hour Challenge” where you have 48 hours to complete a task that would otherwise take a really long time (write a short book, make a music album, paint ten paintings, etc). You’d be surprised at how efficient you can be when you’re on the clock.