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'''''Channel 101''''' is a short film festival (usually monthly) in Los Angeles, which also has a sister festival in NYC, '''[[Channel 101 NY]]'''. Channel 101 is a creation of '''[[Dan Harmon]]''' and '''[[Rob Schrab]]''' in which participants submit a short film in the format of a pilot under five minutes in length. The event is structured such that the audience controls what is shown and which film-makers return for the next screening in much the same way TV programs are rated and managed. According to the Channel 101 website, “Channel 101 is a chance to sit in the worn-out chair of the fat network exec, drunk on the blood of lowly artists whose right to exist is given in exchange for their ability to nourish...You run the network. You pick the programming.” |
'''''Channel 101''''' is a short film festival (usually monthly) in Los Angeles, which also has a sister festival in NYC, '''[[Channel 101 NY]]'''. Channel 101 is a creation of '''[[Dan Harmon]]''' and '''[[Rob Schrab]]''' in which participants submit a short film in the format of a pilot under five minutes in length. The event is structured such that the audience controls what is shown and which film-makers return for the next screening in much the same way TV programs are rated and managed. According to the Channel 101 website, “Channel 101 is a chance to sit in the worn-out chair of the fat network exec, drunk on the blood of lowly artists whose right to exist is given in exchange for their ability to nourish...You run the network. You pick the programming.” |
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Roughly every month, a screening for Channel 101 occurs at the [[Cinespace]] theater in Los Angeles, with (usually) ten shorts being screened. At the screening, the audience votes on which shows they would like to see return. The top five shows are entered into the “'''[[prime time]]'''” slots on the Channel 101 website, and get to make a follow-up episode for the next screening. This process continues with new “episodes” being shown at each screening until one fails to make the top five, at which point the series is “cancelled.” Some successful shows also can choose to be voluntarily be cancelled, (The first to do so being '''[[Time Belt]]'''), making one last unvoted episode. Shows that fail to make the prime time spot are known as “[[failed pilots]].” An added benefit of having a prime time series is that prime time directors are part of the panel that decides which five new pilots will be shown alongside the five established shows from the previous screening. Shows that fail to make the screenings are known as “[[rejected pilots]].” Each calendar year of the festival is referred to as a “season,” comprising of 10 screenings, due to there being no December screening, plus month break “to allow the creators to rest” between spring/summer and the November screening, which is the yearly awards show (The Incredibly Prestigious Achievement Award or “[[Channy]],” so named as a parody of Emmy). |
Roughly every month, a screening for Channel 101 occurs at the [[Cinespace]] theater in Los Angeles, with (usually) ten shorts being screened. At the screening, the audience votes on which shows they would like to see return. The top five shows are entered into the “'''[[prime time]]'''” slots on the Channel 101 website, and get to make a follow-up episode for the next screening. This process continues with new “episodes” being shown at each screening until one fails to make the top five, at which point the series is “cancelled.” Some successful shows also can choose to be voluntarily be cancelled, (The first to do so being '''[[Time Belt]]'''), making one last unvoted episode. Shows that fail to make the prime time spot are known as “[[failed pilots]].” An added benefit of having a prime time series is that prime time directors are part of the panel that decides which five new pilots will be shown alongside the five established shows from the previous screening. Shows that fail to make the screenings are known as “[[rejected pilots]].” Each calendar year of the festival is referred to as a “season,” comprising of 10 screenings, due to there being no December screening, plus month break “to allow the creators to rest” between spring/summer and the November screening, which is the yearly awards show (The Incredibly Prestigious Achievement Award or “[[Channy]],” so named as a parody of Emmy). |
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Revision as of 15:00, 18 September 2009
Channel 101 is a short film festival (usually monthly) in Los Angeles, which also has a sister festival in NYC, Channel 101 NY. Channel 101 is a creation of Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab in which participants submit a short film in the format of a pilot under five minutes in length. The event is structured such that the audience controls what is shown and which film-makers return for the next screening in much the same way TV programs are rated and managed. According to the Channel 101 website, “Channel 101 is a chance to sit in the worn-out chair of the fat network exec, drunk on the blood of lowly artists whose right to exist is given in exchange for their ability to nourish...You run the network. You pick the programming.”
Roughly every month, a screening for Channel 101 occurs at the Cinespace theater in Los Angeles, with (usually) ten shorts being screened. At the screening, the audience votes on which shows they would like to see return. The top five shows are entered into the “prime time” slots on the Channel 101 website, and get to make a follow-up episode for the next screening. This process continues with new “episodes” being shown at each screening until one fails to make the top five, at which point the series is “cancelled.” Some successful shows also can choose to be voluntarily be cancelled, (The first to do so being Time Belt), making one last unvoted episode. Shows that fail to make the prime time spot are known as “failed pilots.” An added benefit of having a prime time series is that prime time directors are part of the panel that decides which five new pilots will be shown alongside the five established shows from the previous screening. Shows that fail to make the screenings are known as “rejected pilots.” Each calendar year of the festival is referred to as a “season,” comprising of 10 screenings, due to there being no December screening, plus month break “to allow the creators to rest” between spring/summer and the November screening, which is the yearly awards show (The Incredibly Prestigious Achievement Award or “Channy,” so named as a parody of Emmy).
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What Channel 101 is not
Channel 101 is not a website.
It's a live film festival. It happens to have a website, in the same way that Burger King has a website. If somebody asked you what Burger King was you certainly wouldn't say, "it's a website about burgers." No, it's a restaurant. It just happens to have a site.
Same here. Channel 101 is about the live screenings. So if you see the people who run it treating the forums as if they were little more than an annoyance and a necessary evil, that's why. Neither these forums or this website lies at the center of the Channel 101 universe.
This is, incidentally, also why people are sensitive over forum criticism of the shows in the front page. See, once they're on the front page, they've already been judged. They're not asking for our opinion. That's not what they're there for. This isn't ifilm.com, this isn't newgrounds.com. They don't have online voting.
I know lots and lots of people stroll in - including me - thinking this is just an online presentation where the readers rule the roost, where the filmmakers are sitting with their hands clasped in their lap, anxiously waiting to hear what we say. Lots of sites do work that way, sites with advertisements and popups that depend on the voter traffic to make money.
This one doesn't. In light of that, do you see why a cut in forum traffic would be a good thing? And do you see why they wouldn't worry about losing the type of poster who is always getting moderated?[1]
Trivia
- Channel 101 is so popular that, at any given moment in its forum, you might accidentally end up in a conversation with the person next door.[2]