Today's Session

Today we watched a whole bunch of short films (all very geeky and post-modern) created b like-minded students and young people. They were The Guild, We Need Girlfriends and and Living With the Infidels. They all featured trivial and cult culture based humor parodying and pastiching modern medias forms like video-games, internet blogging, TV shows and films (often sci-fi).

The humor targets a niche-market of kids n teens on the same wave-length that are able to be an active audience that pick up on the jokes easily...

They usually promote themselves via Youtube, Vimeo and Daily Motion featurettes/banners linked to the users recommended viewing. I also expect (from the looks of these kids making them) that they'd have blog and social network advertising too e.g. Facebook status updates linking people to videos, Twitter updates, etc. I think this as like the geek niche they're marketing to, they probably geeky too - utilising many forms of both mainstream and lesser know social networking/advertising websites.

We Need Girlfriends is by Rag Tag Productions and is a sitcom based on the the adventures of Tom (Patrick Cohen), Henry (Seth Kirschner) and Rod (Evan Bass), recent college graduates struggling to understand the complex world of the New York dating scene after all three are simultaneously dumped by their long-term college girlfriends.

The humour here is typically American. Recycling the commonly used "frat pack" Anchorman-esque, sophomore styles . it also reminds me of Friends too, maybe just due to the New York setting, or the shallow characters.

My personal favourite microseries online are any of the ones created by Fronk 'n' Dego.

The short below is called Black and is a parody/pastiche of current blockbuster films - the most similar i can come up with is Freaky Friday.

Urban Dictionary's description of Fronk 'n' Dego:

1. Movies you watch to feel better when; you realize your a social reject, you disappoint your parents, your girlfriend/boyfriend dumps your sorry ass, all your friends decided not to like you anymore on the same day 2. Two film student's table scraps from the buffet of cinema I like to watch Fronk N Dego Films while scarfing my fat face with Ben and Jerry's Fossil Fuel ice cream.