6 hours in a box
January 28, 2008
The latest BBC web-telly project will see three acts spend eight hours in a glass bubble in a sort of - ‘camp-out’ for the public vote. By public read people in front of a computer clicking Yes or No.
Basically anyone with the illussion of talent is able to visit the Upstaged pages of the BBC THREE part of the BBC website and sign up with their details - upload videos, upload pictures, post snippets of information and have people vote for them.
One group to do just that is YouStage - a group of UK Vloggers who each have a strong following on You Tube - basically they’ve created a promo video where they all do ’something’ and talk about the importance of vlogging and why its fun.
However, I’m not sure I could stomach 8 hours of THAT and so far its one of the better ones.
The idea of the show is that the early voting rounds take place online - people upload their videos and other people get to vote for the ones they like the most (BBC did something similar to this with the Joseph Choir search that ended in a bit of a crash - basically the site couldn’t cope with demand).
Each video is embeddable and spreadable as well as being available for download.
After the voting stage, from 5 February the best will be available through the BBC THREE red button for further sofa voting AND then the highest rated THREE acts will perform in one of THREE bubbles on BBC THREE for eight hours.
Or at least I think it works something like that - the whole things looks like its going to take place in Millenium Square in Bristol - a pretty cool place to sit and chill - not something thats going to be happening much with that lot going on.
It won’t just be musicians singing their own crap songs though - the whole thing will be a ‘performance space’ where anything from Beat Boxers, to singers, to men in their underpants can happen.
Here’s one I like where a guy writes songs based on user submissions.
Its a great idea and a great experiment in user interaction BUT the best thing about it for me is that its a talent contest that DOES NOT involve Simon Cowell.
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