On The Box
By Chrystal Dean
23 January 2010
Welcome to the first installment of ON THE BOX. Here you will find out about all things girl-on-girl onscreen. That’s on TV, in film or online. It’ll come to you laced with opinion and review – mine. Then you can check it out and make up your own mind. But mostly, I hope you find a show, film or web series you haven’t heard of yet.
Right now I want to talk about stuff online. I have to admit, as much as I’m a self-confessed lover of You Tube, I’ve never really turned to the internet to watch drama. Then came Venice the Series. If you haven’t heard of Venice, check out our interview with the creators Crystal Chappell and Kim Turrisi here. The best thing about this series, aside from it having a stellar cast, good writing, quality production and a place for indie music artists to find an audience (but that’s a heart-warming story for another time), is it’s accessible to me at the same time it is to anyone else around the world. No more relying on Australian television networks or cinemas to pick up on something lesbian and screen it one year after it screened in the US.
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And if you’re not too tech-phobic you can enjoy the online community that has formed around the show through Twitter , Facebook or the show’s own community platform VComm found at www.venicetheseries.com. On Twitter, all the people involved in the show (actors/actresses, writers, directors and musicians) interact with fans, creating a connection between creator and audience that has probably never been done before. I expect a lot of the fan interaction will feed into the show, in fact I’ve seen some of it first-hand already. This is a group of creative people who are really listening to their audience, and it shows. I encourage you to check it out.
Of course, this web series has tipped me off to others I didn’t even know existed. I know what I’ll be doing over summer – churning through my download quota checking out www.venicetheseries.com, www.3wayTV.tv and www.anyonebutmeseries.com. I’ll let you know how it goes.
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