Web series are gaining popularity now as more people try to ride the trend of readers going online to watch television. A new kind of web series will be premiering on March 31, aptly named '31'.
Created by L.C. Cruell, the director of several short films and the writer of several screenplays, '31' will consist of 31 episodes, each of them only 31 seconds long, and released at 3:31 p.m. each day. Cruell says “It has the story arc of a film with the structure of television, told cliffhanger by cliffhanger, within the attention span of the Internet. It's the best of all three worlds." The budget for the entire web series is also impressive. It only cost $390 to make.
But what's it all about? A trailer for the web series is embedded below. From what we can tell, it's a suspense/horror series that focuses on two people - a man and a woman - who are trapped. It looks like the woman wakes up in some sort of box, but the duo eventually manages to free themselves from their makeshift coffins. And that's when the real mystery begins. Who captured them? What do these mysterious people want? Why are they being held and will they be able to escape?
It looks like each episode will be released on the series' YouTube page (view it here). I've been able to watch two of the later episodes and you should expect daily cliffhangers for the episodes. This is certainly a novel ideal, so it will be interesting to see how it plays out. Make sure you tune into the first episode tomorrow and follow the series' Twitter account (@31theseries) to keep up to date. Here are the full details:
Date: 3/31/11– 5/1/11
Time: 3:31 p.m. ET Daily
Twitter: @31theseries
YouTube Page: http://www.youtube.com/user/31webseries
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Ha ha I love love this concept, 31 seconds! I rarely make it past the 2 or 3 minute mark when on youtube – so works for me. That teaser is killa, curious to see how it plays out.