June 29, 2005
Mini-series for upwardly mobile Chinese
A media group in China has filmed a soap opera to be broadcast only on mobile phones. Each of the five episodes, about two bikers vying for the love of a beauti ful woman, will last five minutes. There is very little dialogue and a lot of close-ups of characters striking exaggerated poses in the cinematic equivalent of a haiku.
The gestures I make are very limited," Luo Ji, who plays one of the motorbike racers, told the Associated Press. "Your emotions should only come from facial expressions. It's quite difficult acting."
Only a few people with the most sophisticated mobile phones will be able to see the drama. [via The Guardian]
Previously - China's first TV drama to be shown exclusively on mobile phones
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-- 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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