Well it looks like I broke the story a day early! The day after my last post about Lonelygirl15 the creators of behind the Internet video mystery teen admit that the video blogs are really an “experiment in storytelling”. The three creators, identified as Miles Beckett, a self-styled Internet geek, Mesh Flinders, a fledgling filmmaker, and Greg Goodfried, a lawyer, saw the rise in podcasting and video blogging, and wanted to be a part of it.
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They developed the character of the doe-eyed teenage girl who was more at home relating to adults than with her peers, then recruited the actors to play Bree and her dorky boyfriend, Daniel.
“We never wanted to lie to people,” Beckett said.
“Our job from the beginning was not to trick people. It was to create a character that was believable,” Flinders said.
The episodes are shot with a $130 Web camera and the lighting is provided by two desk lamps and a window. The sound comes from the Webcam’s internal microphone.
“I’m trying to deal with it right now,” the 19-year-old Maryland actress who plays Bree told The Associated Press in a phone interview yesterday. “I’m not used to this much attention. It’s a little bit crazy for me.”
Just three months ago, she was one of thousands of struggling actors in Los Angeles looking to make it big in the movies or on a TV show. Today, she is the unlikely star of a series of short Internet videos posted on Web sites such as YouTube and MySpace.
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