“On the Lot”
As painful as watching “On the Lot” is for me (I didn’t make the auditions and I’m a bit jealous), I must admit it is interesting to see a mishmash of filmmaker’s battle it out for a development deal as they fight to make their dreams come true. If you don’t know what “On the Lot” is, it is a new reality TV show created by Mark Burnett, who was behind the trend-setting Survivor television series, and Steven Spielberg, famous director responsible for such films as Munic, Schindler’s List, and Jurassic Park.
The show puts 18 filmmaker’s against eachother, and they are challenged with the task of creating an entire short film every week. As the shows go on, their films are screened in a seperate show and then the public is allowed to vote for their favorite director, much in the vein of American Idol.
As a new feature for the site, viewers can now catch the full films from the contestants, as well as every full-length episode of the shows, in case you miss them on TV and you don’t have Tivo. You do have to download some extra software to watch the episodes, but all you need is a browser equipped with Macromedia Flash to watch the films made by the contestants. I suggest watching these films, either to laugh at some of the silly things they come up with, or to gawk at the things you wish you could be doing in film right now.
November 12th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
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