Group 4 =16-Oct

The film generates two parallel narratives. One about the development of the internet. The other is a story about a key figure in its development - Josh Harris.

The Josh Harris story is a version of a the American dream. He grows up as an introverted kid, raised by TV with a neglectful family. Sees lecture by Frank Webster about the early forms of networked computers. That begins his fascination with the future possibilities of the internet. He develops several dot com startups and sells them off in the early days of the dot com boom in New York. He develops the first video streaming internet TV network and also eventually sells that off. He then goes a little mad with his wealth and his celebrity. In this slight madness he builds an experimental community called Quite: We live in Public. It was an underground all inclusive society that was under completely surveillance including cameras in each bunk, the bathroom and everywhere else. The collected every participants personal information and subjected to brutal interrogation sessions. All the monitors in the bunks were networks so each participant could watch the others activities. Slowly as Y2K approached the society went from fun experiment to a rapid brake down of peoples comfort and willingness to continue. Josh Harris was the puppet master, warden, priest and data miner of the whole operation. It was finally shut down on January 1, 2000.

OPENING SEQUENCE

Josh Harris opens with a video letter to mother 01/20/05 REC

Josh made tape for funeral as he did not attend in person.

intercutting with talking head with brother (brother was not happy about that)

pans out to show desktop interface and ‘standard’ media players then youtube appears in another screen

QUOTE: ‘Lions and tiger once ruled the jungle but are now in zoos’

QUOTE: ‘everybody will like the internet at first but it will drastically alter humanity’

the images span out and a montage of images of faces and interview roll into graphical soften cubes.

ESTABLISHING SHOT Skyline of manhattan

SOUNDTRACK: Jesus and Mary Chain

AMERICAN VOICE AUDIO: 900 dolls in pocket and is market researcher.

attends a Frank Webster lecture he recommends investing in the internet

Josh begins predictions of the internet taking over the world

Josh becomes a million

JUPTER COMS research how people use the internet

NY Times print JUPITER predictions

news introduction graphics

begging of Jupiter programming only 10 programers in a Manhattan loft

Cuts to

PRODIGY CHATROOMS (a collection of chatrooms)

PRODIGY CHATROOMS - sold it made none when it went public - 100,000 websites 2.2 billion first

Josh makes 80 million when PRODIGY CHATROOMS was floated on the market (went public)

Section of cuts of news reels found footage of ‘dot com kids’

PHUDO.COM introduced net TV show online TV network with chat

1994 - 100,000 websites internet worth 2.2 billion

QUOTE: Jason Calacanis -get used to it its the fruture (young people having money)

buffering ideas beyond the technology barley worked

QUOTE: ‘assume its going to work … its going to happen’

the vision was an interactive cable channel

people hired and forged a studio with young diverse people, using the partys to hire these people.

QUOTE: ‘300 people believing in a thing’

tv and press shots he blew up and was on a lot of media

QUOTE: ‘I want to be a cyber star’

studio started comparing it to Wharoles factory

regular compared to CBS, NBC

listed as a legitimate network in NY Times

PHYDO is on the same wavelength as CBS Josh then appears on CBS 60 min (1999)

QUOTE: ‘my audience can be counted because they are computers’ ‘I’m in a race to take CBS out of guinness’ ‘were (in the guinness of) programming people lives’

EMOTIONAL BIT

3 brother 3 sisters no privacy at home he was the youngest Dad not home much Mum worked in a correctional facility essenshaly broungh himself up

QUOTE: ‘I think I love his mom virtually’

only friend growing up was TV

gilligams island as family

mother conditioned him by making him watch TV for hours on end.

spends two years on Launder my head music video. ‘conform with me’

explained to hum ands what is coming next went mad created an alter ego as a clown called Lovvy

walked away (pushed out) of PHYDO as he started turning up to press conferences and meetings as a clown.