the chutry experiment: Lazy Friday Reality TV Links
At this point, the LonleyGirl15 phenomenon has pretty much run its course. There may be new videos huh well I am actually int enough to watch this new video now whereas I really hardly watched any before ~ is it that there seems to be more plot now? , but with the revelation of the actual creators of the series, the buzz has faded considerably. Still, LG15 is a creative use of video podcasting, and I don't want to lose track of Henry Jenkins' blog entry on the series, which aptly notes that LG15 has a number of precedents, including Sadie Benning's pixelvision videos and Sony's Rachel's Room videos in its playful blend of epistolary narratives and reality TV conventions.
HJ: the autobiographical pixelvision films produced by teenage filmmaker Sadie Benning = article at sensesofcinema - read- which became a cause celebre in the art world in the 1990s: here was a teenage dyke sitting in her bedroom, speaking with extraordinary frankness to a camera that was either handheld or propped up on her desk and which produced grainy and very authentic feeling images. In this case, the "authentic" teen girl turned out to be the daughter of an established avant garde artist who used his connections to the art world to help launch here career.