On The Lot: New TV show coming to fox! Still taking admissions to be on the show!
 

This sounds incredible. I would love to enter in this, but I do not have the time right now to make a film. Here is the link to the site! http://www.thelot.com/

"ON THE LOT
On the Lot is the groundbreaking new show brought to you by reality show mastermind, Mark Burnett, and legendary producer and director, Steven Spielberg. Over the season, the 16 filmmakers will produce short films in every genre every week and the viewers will vote on who gets eliminated. The winning filmmaker will take home a $1 Million development deal!"

I hope someone here on DVinfo.net could enter in this!
~Gabriel

Now this is Reality TV I can get behind. Looking forward to it.

I finally broke down and submitted, though I need to re-do it; I didn't realize you now needed an intro. So I'm doing that this weekend.

heath

I'll be glad to star in anyone's film, although I will need to split the winnings 70/30 my way.


Seriously though, Heath I hope you or someone from the board does well, wins it. I immediately thought about you guys.

I do a mean Elvis though, if anyone is interested.

Thanks, man. Elvis, eh? I'll tell my frequent co-writer. He once did a short with Elvis!

heath

Awesome! Its great to hear that people here are interested. As much as I would like to enter, I cant. I am very bummed about that. But hey, if it makes it, I'll enter next time. :D

Waiting to hear more,
~Gabriel

The one bummer I see is that you do all the work to make those short films, and guess who owns the rights to them... I haven't looked at the contracts, but I would guess that the Fox lawyers haven't left many crumbs on the table.

isn't youtube.com commanding just as many viewers as Fox?

This is true, but at the same time, you are getting a chance to meet Steven Spielberg, and a $1 million contract with dreamworks. Thats, what I think makes it worth while. Plus the experience of getting behind real equipment and being with real actors. Now that, sounds like a great offer!

~Gabriel

Fox doesn't own the rights like you think. Go to www.thelot.com to learn more. Sci Fi's contest was a little more hard core.

The difference between YouTube and On The Lot is that YouTube isn't offering a potential $1 million first-look deal with DreamWorks.

heath

Not yet anyway... I am sure Google will come up
with a $10,000,000 contest deal soon enough....

Google does have a TV channel called Current TV that consists mostly of “Viewer Created Content” All you do is post your work on this website and if a lot of people likes it, its gets on TV. You do get paid if it’s on the air. A lot of the programs that gets on the air even comes from High School and College students.

That would be something indeed if Google were to offer 10 million dollars for the best program. That much money is nothing to them but I don’t think they would ever go that high.

I could go on and on about what they offer but its best to go on their website and check it out. http://www.current.tv/

I'd love to at least try to enter this but I've got my college courses to think about. Plus, I'm waiting to see how the first (and hopefully not last) season goes before I try for it. My biggest fear is that it will get turned into a "Project Greenlight" and only focus on the negative drama that ensues.

Also, I'd just plain like to see how the show affects the people on it, from what I understand, you have to come up with something to film in a different genre for each episode or two? That's pretty hardcore for me at the moment as far as the maturity of my creative process goes =).

This looks like fun. It's nice to see times like these when anyone with grocery store budget gets a chance at public awareness, opinion, and exposure. So, even if you don't win the grand prize, you have to assume that folks of influence in this industry will at least see your work... lot's of possibilities here.

yeah the "meet" with spielberg is probably a 30min-1hour lunch from which he leaves and goes off directing his next feature or 'produce' somn. $1mil is given only if you give up control of the final cut. i'm always skeptical of things like this because it's a sign of desperation from hollywood.

armed with HDV+distribution places like youtube or even your own website. why not go direct. it takes just as much effort, time, $ as it does regular studios, but at the end you will own your own content (if you hook up with the right lawyers). i think hollywood is afraid of the next big hit coming out of online places that will bypass the huge chain of middlemen that hold the $. when that day comes, moviemaking will be even more even bigger. that's why they are casting their net very very far.

ah well, what do i know. just another joe's opinion.