"Lost" Releases Exclusive "Video Diaries" For Cell Phones!

‘’Lost’’ Releases Exclusive ''Video Diaries'' For Cell Phones!’’

By Arlene R. Weiss © Copyright November 22, 2005

Now rabid fans of ‘’Lost’’ the ABC Television Network’s cult hit series, have even more plot twists, turns, bizarre characters with mysterious backgrounds, and storyline cliffhangers to keep them guessing until the cows come home.

Zap2it.com reports that the producers of ‘’Lost’’ are filming special, exclusive mini-show shorts, not ever seen on the regularly broadcast series, that will be made available for viewing only via download on mobile, cellular phones.

Beginning January 2006, Verizon’s V Cast Mobile Service’s subscribers can view the ‘’Lost Video Diaries’’ on their cell phones.

The ‘’Diaries’’, according to ABC, are an ‘’extension’’ of the series, and are 2 minutes in length. Each mini episode will focus on never before seen characters, that are not included or featured on the weekly ABC broadcasts, who survived the heinous crash of the ill fated airplane Flight, 815.

‘’Lost’’ co-creator Damon Lindelof (who collaborates on the show with ‘’Lost’’ creator and executive producer, ‘’Lost’’ wizard/mastermind J.J. Abrams), tells Zap2it.com that ‘’Viewers always ask us, ‘What’s going on with the people in the background? Don’t they have stories too?’ Well the answer is yes, and now we’ve got the perfect format to tell those stories.’’

So far, there are plans to produce at least 22 of the ‘’Video Diaries’’. And for those without cell phones, or wanting a permanent collection of the diaries to view over and over again, they will all be included in ‘’Lost’s’’ Season 2 DVD set, and 6 out of the 22 featurettes, will not be made available for cell phones, and will only be included on the DVD set. So now you just HAVE to curb your ‘’Lost’’ addiction and buy the entire 2nd season on DVD!

Sounds like great marketing to us.

But we just love and CRAVE ‘’Lost’’ and learning about each character’s life prior to the plane crash, told in flashback, and how each person was indeed, lost, whether through personal tragedy, flaws in their moral fiber, ethics, personal loss, misdeeds, even criminal activities, etc, and then witnessing the surreal transformation, somehow, on this dark, mysterious, supernatural force imbued island, how these ‘’lost’’ souls, then ‘’find’’ themselves, and….thus, their own redemption, getting a second chance in life to put things right for themselves, while helping one another, that is their fellow castaways, when they must pull together as a group for their very survival in the face of never ending peril, id like growling man eating monsters, a weird para military cult initiative group that used to inhabit the island, pirates, and whatever else Abrams and Lindelof can conjure up to scare the pants off of us!

Source:
http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271987371,00.html

Muse News And Micro Muse November 22, 2005

By Arlene R. Weiss © Copyright November 22, 2005