Our grandparents went to movie theaters for their newsreels, serials, movie trailers and at last, hours of entertainment where the writing and talent overshadowed all else. At home, their radios provided hours of news, music and entertainment.
My generation, those pesky Baby Boomers, congregated in living rooms from coast to coast first to watch first what our parents watched: variety shows, family friendly comedy shows, Westerns. However, Saturday mornings belonged to us. We watched rerun after rerun of Our Gang, Tarzan, Roy Rogers and the best things ever (to us) cartoons. We went to theaters to see action movies, spectacular Biblical epics, and as time passed, Westerns from different points of view, stories that mirrored the tumultuous times we survived. As we aged, VCR tapes and machines let us start manipulating time by allowing us to watch things at our leisure.'
Our kids had to choose where to pay attention. Would it be regular television with its sitcoms, detective shows, comedies or cable, which added hundreds of selections on top of those? Add to that first video game systems, rental VCR's, then DVDs. Time meant little to Gen X. It's their children who have technology as toy. They have 3D phones that do everything ancient color TVs did when Baby Boomers were planted in front of them. The current youth can become immersed in a movie, game or show on TV, their phone, laptop, tablet, a theater and now, they can watch a series made with them in mind: available only in ditigal ether.
"H+," a digital science fiction series, was filmed earlier this year in Chile. I know about it because I know one of the minds behind the project.
Jason Taylor, president of production at Bryan Singer's Bad Hat Harry Productions, sent me the trailer for "H+" that was shown at San Diego's "Comic-Con." Also in the project is Playtone, the production company owned by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman. The combination of Bad Hat Harry and Playtone has caused a anticipatory buzz not only at Comic-Con, but in the entertainment business itself. Many production companies will be watching "H+" and if it's a success, look for a new venue for all genres of entertainment.
To check out the trailer, visit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlXmsNK_V4k
From producer Bryan Singer ( X-Men , X2 , X-Men : First Class , Superman Returns ) comes a Comic-Con exclusive first look at H+, the forthcoming Warner Premiere/Dolphin Entertainment web series directed by Stewart Hendler (Sorority Row) and written and created by John Cabrera and Cosimo De Tommaso. H+ takes place in a near-future world where a tiny and stunning new piece of technology lies at the center of a dark and epic mystery.many thanks to Warner Digital for supplying us with this trailer
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