WIFF Update: Online characters bridge traditional, social media (filmmakers and other artists launch persona’s online)

by Peter D. Marshall on March 5, 2009

This article is from Gillian Shaw The Vancouver Sun

“Emme Rogers is a writer and actress, described by some of her friends as Vancouver’s own Carrie Bradshaw. She has a lot of friends — more than 1,500 on Twitter, hundreds on Facebook, and has just launched her new blog emmerogers.com.

She’s a tomboy now grown up and she is constantly sharing her version of being single in Vancouver and the trials of writing her first novel, Single in the Suburbs. If you meet Emme online, you may even become fast friends. She is so popular she has been asked to be part of a new show to be broadcast online.

The difference between Emme and your other online pals? Emme is a character, not a real person. One of a growing number of cyber characters, Emme demonstrates a trend in which filmmakers and other artists are launching personas online and building a fan base and demand around them.” Read article.

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Digital Film School March 5, 2009 at 2:27 PM

This is cool!

Emme March 6, 2009 at 11:26 AM

Thinking it’s pretty gosh darn cool myself! And thinking Peter is even cooler for reposting it!

Blowing you a kiss Peter!

Emme

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