One of the joys of sitting in on a Friday Night is experiencing the joy that is Pat Kenny on The Late Late Show. This week, he has a bit of a Black and White minstrels moment with the young All Ireland Talent Show breakdancer, Jack Lynch. Personally I paled.
Showing posts with label RTE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RTE. Show all posts
Monday 23 March 2009
Storyland is live
The Storyland competition is live now the RTE Website and seeing as we were shortlisted for it we sat through the videos and off course, we voted. Interestingly there are only nine videos, there were supposed to be ten, Moo Cow Productions Morbid and Sons pulled out early and were replaced by Pub World ages ago, but it now seems that for some reason Sulleybags has been axed/dropped out also. RTE have made no reference to it but it is disappointing that none of the others on the shortlist were considered as a replacement in the way that Pubworld was. Perhaps something happened at the last minute?
When we were viewing the videos their scores were visible on RTE which seemed a bit daft for two reasons, you don't know how well the voting is going on The X Factor or Irelands Got Talent because it can influence voting patterns unfairly and also, with nine videos to troll through most of them over 6 minutes long the natural inclination is to just watch the most viewed or the favourite. Thankfully for those taking part in Storyland, the scores have now been removed so the playing field is more level. For the record Hardy Bucks was waaayyy out in front with 45% while the rest shared fairly equal footing of 8 - 12%
This is the first time RTE have done something like this so teething problems for all concerned are to be expected. One thing that I think is a major challenge for all concerned is the simple fact that 9 videos at an average of 5 minutes each comes up to a fairly jarring 45 minutes, add the fact that the streaming is a little slow, and the time it takes to read the blurb on each one and before you know it you are an hour down, in fact it took us an hour and a half to go through them all. That's one hell of a time commitment, and not one I think a lot of people will make. Instead, I guess, they'll just pop along to view whichever one they've been mailed about or told about in one way or another. This means that if your marketing skills aren't up to scratch then, even if your video is worthy, you could be sunk, which is a shame. I don't know what plans RTE themselves have for pimping the project but as of today it's not linked from their home page.
Another possible improvement might be to include a simple logline with each video on the home page, to entice the viewer a little more to click through and watch it, as it is you have to select the video to find out what it's about, and you don't so much get log lines as paragraph. Interestingly the Pat Mc Cabe penned Chez Spuds has the clumsiest bit of copy.
We're going to publish our opinions on each later but in the meantime pop along to RTE Storyland and have a look. Don't forget to vote!
When we were viewing the videos their scores were visible on RTE which seemed a bit daft for two reasons, you don't know how well the voting is going on The X Factor or Irelands Got Talent because it can influence voting patterns unfairly and also, with nine videos to troll through most of them over 6 minutes long the natural inclination is to just watch the most viewed or the favourite. Thankfully for those taking part in Storyland, the scores have now been removed so the playing field is more level. For the record Hardy Bucks was waaayyy out in front with 45% while the rest shared fairly equal footing of 8 - 12%
This is the first time RTE have done something like this so teething problems for all concerned are to be expected. One thing that I think is a major challenge for all concerned is the simple fact that 9 videos at an average of 5 minutes each comes up to a fairly jarring 45 minutes, add the fact that the streaming is a little slow, and the time it takes to read the blurb on each one and before you know it you are an hour down, in fact it took us an hour and a half to go through them all. That's one hell of a time commitment, and not one I think a lot of people will make. Instead, I guess, they'll just pop along to view whichever one they've been mailed about or told about in one way or another. This means that if your marketing skills aren't up to scratch then, even if your video is worthy, you could be sunk, which is a shame. I don't know what plans RTE themselves have for pimping the project but as of today it's not linked from their home page.
Another possible improvement might be to include a simple logline with each video on the home page, to entice the viewer a little more to click through and watch it, as it is you have to select the video to find out what it's about, and you don't so much get log lines as paragraph. Interestingly the Pat Mc Cabe penned Chez Spuds has the clumsiest bit of copy.
We're going to publish our opinions on each later but in the meantime pop along to RTE Storyland and have a look. Don't forget to vote!
Monday 26 January 2009
Talent? Depends on what your wearing.
Last night on The All Ireland Talent Show, Blathnaid Ni Chofaigh wss in Kilkenny to look for the greatest entertainers that the east has to offer. "I'M concerned about your age" she said to a seven year old, who had clearly been allowed enter so....? Later she wondered alloud if a mother of 3 would be able to handle the commitment of taking part in the show, eh Blathnaid, lots of people have kids, you included, and then go to RTE and watch the 25th January show from 38.55, she asks the guys with the football freestyle skills if they would be willing to do it with their shirts off? They said no. Blathnaid! Taking off your clothes is hardly a talent!!
Friday 23 January 2009
The Story didn't land....
We didn't get selected for Storyland, Bummer. We got a lot out of the pitch process, and we're happy with what we submitted, I guess this time it was not to be....
Monday 19 January 2009
Our pitch for RTE Storyland
Myself and LiveDrive producer extraordinaire John McEvoy submitted an idea to RTE for their Storyland project. The basic premise is that they will select 10 videos, put them on the RTE website and get viewers to vote for them. If your project gets selected, you get to make another episode, and so on until you get voted out or win.... They shortlisted 20 submissions and we were among the people who got to pitch. We were in with them today so fingers crossed...
Our show is called iCabalot, it's about a young philosophy graduate who unexpectedly inherits his dads taxi and discovers he has The Gift of the Cab.
This is the teaser trailer we made for our pitch.
Our show is called iCabalot, it's about a young philosophy graduate who unexpectedly inherits his dads taxi and discovers he has The Gift of the Cab.
This is the teaser trailer we made for our pitch.
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