Production Begins on “OzGirl”
Posted by Nick | Filed under Blog
Production begins tomorrow on the internet series I’m currently working on entitled “OzGirl” which will tell the story of a country girl adjusting to live in the big city. We have just figured out the schedule to shoot 24 episodes over 11 days. Each episode will run between 2 – 3 minutes, so essentially we will be shooting a “mini-feature” in 11 days which is going to be insane. The cast is mostly in place, and we plan to shoot it mockumentary style with the actors visiting real locations and interacting with live people in character.
I’m still debating whether a December or January launch will be more beneficial. We plan to wrap on November 19th, and obviously there is a lot of marketing and campaigning to be done. I have no idea how the series will fair in its 3 month run of 2 episodes a week. Will we make money out of it? Most definitely not, but it should be an interesting experiment in seeing how big (or small) a viewership we are able to capture.
One of the other challenges has been in designing the story. Whilst 2 videos are released a week, a lot of the story takes place “off-screen” on blogs and through the character’s postings on Facebook and MySpace, and we are attempting to incorporate an interactive aspect to the show.
I’ve decided to steer clear of the (now) cliched, cute-girl-video-blogging series that is easy to do and has been done well before (LonelyGirl15, RedEarth88). I intend to shoot this in a similar style to “The Office” and other mockumentaries out there. Another notable exception to this series is that you’ll find no murder mysteries or death. This is 100%, good old-fashioned melodrama at its best. 
I shall be posting pictures and trailers, and all the usual stuff soon.
November 12th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Hi Nick
Great post — looking forward to the OzGirl launch… Linked to your blog here:
http://storygas.blogspot.com