Just like anything else in the mass- and narrow media world, the Writers' strike has some interesting ripple effects . The Golden Globes was canceled, NBC has to refund up to $15 million in advertising, and has got creative with promos, while affiliated industries and their supporting artists -hair dressers, limo drivers, party organizers etc are losing out too.
Of course, everything's connected to everything else -nothing new if you're dabbling in social media. BBC is now reporting that YouTube and other video sites are seeing a lift in. viewership.
Which brings me to United Hollywood, the blog for the Writers Guild of America. They have a YouTube site where they chronicle everything they are fighting about, most of which is about being paid for content distributed online.
It gets better. One video, featuring the exec producer of Private Practice announces that WGA is 'hosting' an annual short film contest -basically soliciting user generated content (think of the irony here!) on themes such as -are you ready for this?- "why sharing is nice," "show the moguls why the internet has value.." "why animation writing is writing," etc. Videos need to be a maximum length of 4 minutes, could be from any genre (even mockumentary!) and needs to end with the line "We're all on the same page." The contest ends Feb 20th.
So far there are 92 videos, including this one addressing Rupert Murdock and his "holy grail" quote. Brilliant!
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