Web series

[predator20]

I was going to check it out on Netflix. Seems like it would be an exception to the rule. Most shorts are going to be low budget with airsoft and cgi muzzle flashes.

[Excalibur]

A lot of movies uses toys sometimes but we put those in pages because they are supposed to represent guns

[funkychinaman]

I scrutinized the scenes where the guns were fired to see if they were actually firing or if they were just using CGI muzzle flashes. Sutherland's P99 actually looks like it's blank adapted, and there's at least one scene where it's definitely cycling, and others where it's obvious he's reacting to a real muzzle flash.

[Excalibur]

But would it really matter if it was a real gun or a prop? We would still put it on the page.

[funkychinaman]

Originally Posted by Excalibur

But would it really matter if it was a real gun or a prop? We would still put it on the page.

Oh, absolutely. I'm just wondering if any of the admins had any objection to me making a page at all.

Like I said, it's a bit hard to classify. IMDb lists it as a TV series, but it feels more like a short feature that was just cut into ten segments. Unlike a more conventional series, with multiple writers and directors, there's just one writer and director.

[MT2008]

Originally Posted by funkychinaman

Like I said, it's a bit hard to classify. IMDb lists it as a TV series, but it feels more like a short feature that was just cut into ten segments. Unlike a more conventional series, with multiple writers and directors, there's just one writer and director.

In this case, I would follow IMDB, which is what we tend to do, anyway.

[Excalibur]

So then if it is on IMDB, we could make a page out of it?

[MoviePropMaster2008]

Originally Posted by funkychinaman

Like I said, it's a bit hard to classify. IMDb lists it as a TV series, but it feels more like a short feature that was just cut into ten segments. Unlike a more conventional series, with multiple writers and directors, there's just one writer and director.

the problem we are going to run into here is that NEW MEDIA is changing the face of what we call Movies and what we call TV shows. I suspect that there will be more and more media created specifically for streaming onto Computers and mobile devices. The future is changing rapidly and media is being redefined all the time. IMDB is no longer the benchmark it used to be since a ton of student made shorts got onto the site (due to some clever tricks to fool the IMDB mods) and the fact that there are now tons of obscure 'film festivals' around the world, in which to qualify the title.

I would say do it. Make the page, but with a very clearly worded caveat that this is 'new media' i.e. web based content and that you (or whoever creates the page) put on a notation that this title was approved by the mods and that all new media must be run by the mods to see if it qualifies.

Web series unfortunately can be just like 'self distributed video features through Amazon". Once Amazon allowed ANYONE to distribute their own video movies for a fee, it changed our definition of 'professional channels of commerce'.

So far I like our standards of what we do or do not allow. It keeps the site relevant to people truly interested in film history, etc.

[funkychinaman]

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Confession,_The_%282011%29