Content tagged with “media” under “The Interesting List”

“ There’s a house just north of New York City that has become a magnet for film and TV shoots, including almost all pre-recorded videos for Saturday Night Live. ”

“ A humorous rap video about how a cartoon is animated turns out to be quite informative. ”

“ Winning an Oscar often comes down to very shrewd awards marketing by film studios. ”

“ For various reasons, some actors who appear to interact in the same movie, never actually meet each other. ”

“ A group of artists collaborated with the showrunner of Melrose Place to insert Leftist political art as props in the show. ”

“ On the eve of the 1996 election, the NY Times crossword had a clue based on the future outcome which could solve the puzzle in two completely different ways. ”

“ The Hallmark Channel filmed a story about two sisters and edited it into two movies. Each one is told from the perspective of a different sister, and they share footage where the sisters interact throughout their respective stories. ”

“ In 1978, a BBC science show pulled off a shot for which timing was critical, and for which there would be no second chance. ”

“ This is the first video ever posted to YouTube. It’s 18 seconds of one of the founders talking about elephants at the zoo, ”

“ A deep dive into the trope of the ‘bulletin board with things connected by string’ used in an investigation. ”

“ The psychological operations unit in the US Army produced their own recruiting video which explains what they do in a very unexpected style. ”

“ An Iowa TV station converts from black-and-white to color, live on the air, in 1967. ”

“ The backstory of how one of the most recognizable people in the world went out for an anonymous beer. ”

“ In 2018, a woman figured out how to game the Olympic qualification system and competed in Pyeongchang despite limited skills. People weren’t pleased. ”

“ A backstage view of the director of the Oscar broadcast and the decisions and pace the team has to maintain during a single award and acceptance speech. ”

“ Face-changing apps have gotten so good that a middle-aged man was able to pose as a young, attractive female and amass 16,000 followers just by using a filter on his phone. ”

“ An entertaining list of ‘celebrity paradoxes,’ which is where a story references a real person, and that real person has intersected with that story as a fictional character. ”

“ There’s a special form of signage used in Los Angeles to discretely direct movie set workers and extras to filming locations. They’re written in code with a distinctive visual style. ”

“ Marvel action movies are ‘pre-filmed’ in a kind of ‘draft mode,’ so that huge chunks of the films exist visually before any shooting starts. Sometimes this happens even before the director is hired or the script is finished. ”

“ A story of the horrifying reputation damage one person can do on the internet, and how hard it can be to stop them, or reverse what’s been done. ”

“ A collection of stories from employees of dating apps which reveal they’re not as genuine as you might think. ”

“ A compilation of an Associated Press journalist reporting fluently in six different languages. ”

“ Some people hate the last scene of ‘The Departed,’ to the point where they were fund-raising to digitally ‘fix’ it. (This eventually got shut down by the movie company.) ”

“ An irreverent documentary about the concept of conspiracy theories and why some people need to believe that there are grand, hidden secrets to the world. ”

“ There was a highly influential YouTube star before those were a common thing. But something happened, and he vanished. Completely. ”

“ The story of how one girl got famous literally overnight and how that affected her life and her mental health over time. ”

“ There was a viral headline all over social media for a couple of days. This article breaks it down, determines what was true and what wasn’t, and presents a larger look into how the news regularly gets twisted. ”

“ There are some fascinating aspects to being a hand model. One of which is that you pretend to be other people’s hands a lot. ”

“ A survey that seems to prove that consuming news primarily via social media causes you to be less engaged and more likely to fall for conspiracy theories. ”

“ In 2012, a baseball announcer correctly predicted a player’s first home run, down to the exact ball/strike count, the type of pitch, and where the home run would leave the park. ”

“ A bizarre, mind-bending, and occasionally disturbing send-up of the intro from every network TV show of the 80s. Buckle up. ”

“ A history of the laugh-tracked sitcom, and why ‘The Big Bang Theory’ was the last major hit to use one. ”

“ A veteran voice actor looks at five drawings of cartoon characters he’s never seen before, and invents multiple voices for them on the spot. ”

“ A harrowing, humbling first-hand account from a contestant on the TV show ‘Naked and Afraid.’ ”

“ Newspaper headlines have informal language conventions called ‘headlinese’ that constitute a new and different dialect. ”

“ A look at how Washington and Moscow have historically communicated and how Twitter might play a role in the future of crisis communication. ”

“ A news report from the early 70s showing how some audience members were physically traumatized after seeing ‘The Exorcist’ in theaters. ”

“ A groundbreaking video from 2004 which describes a fictionalized future on what the media landscape might look like in 2014. ”

“ When a domain name owner wouldn’t give it up, the thwarted buyer sent a gunman to his house and attempt to force him to transfer the domain at gunpoint. ”

“ A series of wild, surreal stories describing what it was like producing content for Alex Jones during his heyday. ”

“ A heart-breaking profile of Roger Ebert, written in the middle of his battle with the cancer that killed him. ”

“ An insightful look at how Oprah Winfrey so easily connects with people and uniquely persuades them to reveal themselves in ways other people can’t. ”

“ The actress who played Hilary Banks found Hollywood a tough place after Fresh Prince , but ultimately found other meaning in life. ”

“ The description of the sad decline of a once-great news publication is very likely a mirror to the rest of the industry. ”

“ A video showing some common verbal riffs from various Aaron Sorkin shows. ”

“ A YouTuber explains, in detail, how much YouTube videos make. It’s not just views – the geographic location of the audiences matters, as does how long they watch your video. And then, in the second half of the video, she explains how she tripled her income. ”

“ Keegan Michael Key provides the anger for Obama’s laid back speech, from the White House Correspondents Dinner in 2015. ”

“ A tribute to the greatest years of ESPN’s SportsCenter, with Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann. ”

“ An interesting look at what happens when media franchises expand past their core source, and how to juggle what is canon and what isn’t. When you create a fake world, there’s a lot to keep track of. ”

“ A Twitter troll hijacks a picture and creates a meme. The women in the picture eventually find the meme, and their response is not what you would expect. ”

“Notable for a one-minute sequence in the middle where Rogen recollects the moment at an award show event when Hannibal Buress told him that Bill Cosby was a rapist, with Cosby standing just a few feet away. Rogan says that Buress started referring to this in his stand-up routine about a month…”

“ A video which tries to figure out why NASCAR isn’t nearly as popular as it once was. Theories range from young people caring less about cars to safety regulations that have made races boring to our general declining attention span. ”

“ A dissection of the demise of Mic that probably mirrors every digital media outlet in the world (hence the title). Well-written and consequently depressing. ”

“ A teen heartthrob disappears from the limelight and everyone assumes the worst. This story is a little boring by comparison, but that’s what makes it fascinating. JTT just…grew up. ”

“ A video supposedly about where the thousands of Bob Ross paintings went. But it’s really about the history of the Bob Ross phenomenon with lots of unknown backstory tidbits. ”

“ An attempt to find evidence of something which seems inexplicably fabricated. ”

“ A recounting of the difficulties in editing out the profanity and questionable content of Tony Bordain’s TV show that is both hilarious and tender. ”

“ The internet will actually make the next pandemic worse because of the propensity for fake news and misinformation that comes at the intersection of world politics and health. ”

“ An Onion editor regrets going easy on Joe Biden, with a broader reflection on how comedy and entertainment outlets frame and validate public figures, and what their responsibility becomes. ”