Look Out, YouTube: 'Beat Girl' Web Series Launches on Pinterest
Multimedia storytellers have found a niche in creating punchy, multi-part stories for video-sharing sites like YouTube and Vimeo. But the visual bookmarking site Pinterest is also open to videos and audio tracks, and artists are taking notice. On Thursday a Web series called “Beat Girl” hit the pinboard running with 145 pins containing both videos and still images. Has a new genre arrived?
The series creators, a London-based, transmedia production company called beActive, say that the series was actually inspired by the photonovels of the sixties and seventies, which recreated films and television series using still photography and written dialogue in a format similar to an illustrated graphic novel.
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