Sooooo, the task for week 5/6 was to find three internet delivered short films (max 10mins) and imbed or upload into a new post. And "just providing the link wont suffice." Oh ho.
Hmmm, so naturally, this required a lot of thought.
And racking my brains, the first thought that came to mind was for some reason the Harry Potter series. If you don't know who Harry Potter is, well...I honestly have no idea what to say other than "where the hell have you been for the past ten years? Jesus Christ.". But anyway, the Harry Potter series has spurned a whole crap load of merchandise from the pointy hats from the $2 store to games on your PS3, has years worth of horrific fanfiction that you'd rather gouge your own eyes out with a spork than read and of course some truly disturbing and epic short films. So, when I thought of Harry Potter I thought of the classic Potter Puppet Pals series.
"Wizard Swears" arguably the most popular episode of the Potter Puppet Pals series and has had over 14 million hits on youtube, has spurned its own t-shirt line, cups and backpacks, has won several comedic awards and is naturally one of the greatest Harry Potter spoofs ever created. It's funny what a little jab at a can do, huh?
The Potter Puppet Pals creator Neil Cicierega has also due to the series "invented" the term "animutation" which of course is a web-based computer animation, typically created in Adobe Flash that is made of unpredictable montages of pop-culture references set to music and in a language foreign to the intended viewers, at least according to wikipedia, our favourite encyclopedia website. :)
And so wracking my brains again, and for some reason feeling rather geeky, I came up with the classic Twilight With Cheeseburgers. Anything that mocks the worst book series that somehow made it in the bestsellers in my eyes deserves a medal. Seriously.
Now, while this was professionally made as it featured on the monthly sketch show called "The Midnight Show", if not for youtube I never would've heard of this clip and it wouldn't have ever likely to have been as famous as it has been, it too thanks to youtube being viewed millions upon millions of times.
...And watching this clip makes me rather hungry... Goddammit.
Randomly deciding on my final "film", though this is more of a mockumetary, is the dude MyChonny on youtube, which goes to show that random films about nothing in particular can get you famous.
Now, once again, without youtube, MyChonny would probably never be as well-recognised as he is today--which goes to show that the internet has most definitely changed the world.
...Ohh, what a sappy way to end this post.
I deserve to be shot.
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