February 22, 2005
Australian Mobile Soap: «Girl Friday»
Girl Friday is a mobile interactive drama from Australia. MMS Episodes are sent weekly on mobile phones (it's unclear whether they are video clips or just pictures).
The soap opera story line reflects the way devices (such as your mobile) are changing the way we communicate in everyday life. As Girlf Friday tries to deal with the sagas of career, love and family we journey with her as a friend and confidant. [via
Synopsis
Girl Friday's life changes when she finds a mobile phone on a tram on the way to work. She soon becomes engaged in the mysterious life of the stranger's phone. All the while she has paper clip trouble at the office; is searching for the mother she never knew, and is clawing her way to the top of the local karaoke charts.
Other mobile soap operas:
-- Hollyoaks pushes mobile service with exclusive TV pics - Mersey TV, the maker of UK Channel 4's teen soap 'Hollyoaks ', is hoping to cash in on the mobile text alert trend by offering subscribers unseen exerts of the show.
-- Cellpop, The First Cell Phone Drama That is not for your Mama! Cellpop follows the lives of the people who make the hit music we listen to. Each day a new episode is delivered straight to your phone.
-- MMS Soap on Spanish Telefónica Móviles - Móviles has launched FanTESStic, an interactive series with real actors created exclusively for MMS
-- -- Launched on the Internet and closed in the late nineties, the Internet's first Soap, «The Spot» is back - on (Sprint) mobile phone.
-- «InYrShoes» - The plot of a UK soap called «InYrShoes» is not decided by scriptwriters, but by viewers sending text messages at the end of each episode, featuring a cliffhanger or dilemma.
-- Jong-Zuid: First picture soap opera for mobile phones The Netherlands came up with the first Picture Soap, Jong-Zuid, starring famous soap opera actors.
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