What is sundaynite.tv?
Here's snippets of our original press release:
New website, www.sundaynite.tv, is launched as a portal for independent television series. New episodes debut each Sunday,
Sundaynite.tv is the creation of brothers Darrell and Dustin Holmes, two Los Angeles film and television producers looking for new ways to provide non-studio television content to viewers. Sundaynite.tv was conceived as a way for independent television creators to self-produce their work with near studio-quality results. Restricted to micro-budgers, Brother Holmes, through use of innovative production techniques, are able to create and produce web-based digital entertainment of a higher production value than previously imagined.
All stages of all projects produced by sundaynite.tv, from casting to editing, are done by Darrell and Dustin Holmes. Even the website was created by the duo.
Sundaynite.tv is a new website created by Brother Holmes Productions as a platform for independent television creators to produce professional quality original series using a miniscule budget. New episodes of differing series will be released each and every Sunday nite.
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In other words,
sundaynite.tv is two dudes making webseries on the cheap, but with an eye toward broadcast level production values. We are not quite there yet, but we will be. Why do we think this is possible? Aren't films made with hundreds of people, over weeks and weeks with permits and permits and money, money, money... Sure, they've been made that way since the turn-of-the-century. When camera's were hefty and immobile, when lighting equipment was even bulkier, when images were captured on celluloid that had to be cut together. The same model has been in place for a hundred years -- even though the technology has drastically changed, even thought the equipment has gotten smaller and smaller and more and more user-friendly. It's a dirty little secret, but film is for everyone now. Not just in a DIY-home-video-bad-art-installation kind of way, but in a High Definition, broadcast quality kind of way. Think of other art forms -- painting for instance: a few hundred years ago painting seemed just as inaccessible, you needed pricey training and expensive art supplies, now... Now filmmaking, while still a collaborative art form, should be seen like painting, singing, dancing, drawing -- an art form for and by the masses. At least sundaynite.tv hopes to prove so.