With The Angels Ep. 3 “Sunshine Film Academy”

This is what started it all. I hope y’all will call and give them your two cents, before they hurt anybody else!

[ED NOTE: This is not a real commercial!]

5 Swirlies

Ha! I gave this 5 Swirlies for their balls in making an episode of the heavy “With the Angels” a gag commercial… and that’s the whole episode. I won’t be putting this into the Friday Playlist because, judging from the comments on YouTube, this might confuse some people.

I thought the commercial itself was funny, but what I really love is the context it gives to the life of our main character. I forget her name, it’s been awhile since I watched the first two episodes of “With the Angels.”

It also leads to the question of whether you should work to make it very clear to people randomly surfing around YouTube that a video is part of a work of fiction? Should you try to use it as a hook – like LonelyGirl15? Or should you add titles or graphics so that people connect with it and experience it with the right mindset?

Which brings up a larger question. How hard should a web series creator work to maintain the fictional reality of their show online? If someone is clearly interacting with a character through YouTube or whatever as if that person is really their friend, a real person instead of a fiction character, should the creator be obliged to break the reality?

Any thoughts, oh mighty and wise Watch Listers?