Fact & Fiction

I'm glad someone mentioned in class that Murray gets creepy when she fantasizes about audience members providing "support" for characters on ER. But Murray seems to have been right-on in calling that production companies would attempt to blur the lines between entertainment and reality. She writes that as computer & television become further intertwined, audiences will be able to access the virtual world of a television show, complete with remnants of the personal life of each character.

Earlier in this blog someone called attention to LonelyGirl15, three producers' attempt to build hype for a movie by introducing a main character as a real person through the vlogging world. The idea initially seemed to have succeeded (15 million views), but I wonder whether audience members were turned off when they realized they had been duped. LG15's followers thought they were comforting a legit human, while any crazeball comforting an ER patient has willingly suspended his/her disbelief. I'm not sure if the LG15 movie is still happening, but if it is it will be interesting to see whether the hype has a negative or positive effect.

(Kind of unrelated but on the bottom of the lonelygirl15 wikipedia: "The online star was recently hired by the United Nations to fight poverty through an online anti-poverty video. Rose will be playing her infamous lonelyGirl15 role as she sits by herself in her bedroom talking to the camera. This time, however, she will be talking about the antipoverty cause rather than her boyfriend troubles." What??)