Geno's World: Seth Green talks to CNN about ControlTV

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Seth Green talks to CNN about ControlTV

2 comments:

Samantha said...: control tv is awesome.. i've been watching it for like 3 1/2 hours straight.. XD...Seth green..... you're my hero!; 5:15 PM
jensamson said...: ControlTV is the first truly new and different concept in entertainment in a very long time!

This is not just streaming video of a guy living his life. It is specifically six weeks of challenging himself to encounter new people and tasks and decisions made for him by his viewers constantly! Tristan continually succeeds in finding new ways to make this project the most interactive show ever.

Someone with less insight and diplomacy than Tristan would never be able to turn his "controllers" into avid supporters who watch out for him and have his back every time he needs a champion on his side!

He reads viewers' tweets and talks back to them on screen. He asks viewers how to make a pizza and he gets instant answers on Twitter from his followers. He wonders out loud if a girl he spoke with wasn't into him and he gets tons of suggestions to just call her so he skypes her and then his viewers all give him feedback!

The producers try to make him change his exercise routine too drastically and his viewers send articles about why it is damaging to change an exercise habit too suddenly.

His viewers vote for him to do something that actually bothers him, but he handles it with such grace that the next vote goes with a landslide toward the choice he asks them to vote for.

You would think it would be boring to watch him just sitting around watching tv, and it will be the next time anyone does this, but with ControlTV it is fascinating because we watch to see what it's like to watch someone watching tv... as well as the way he then ends up adding interest to it in ways he comes up with such as wondering something out loud and then reacting to the tons of instant tweets he gets in answer!

Most fascinating are his insights into the situation itself. He deals with people acting crazy around him and he always not only treats them with absolutely natural unaffected respect but he also effortlessly makes them feel good about themselves despite their strange or manic or even mean behavior. He always figures that they are being affected by the cameras, and are nervous or thrown by the situation. However, he is somehow able to remain always genuinely thoughtful and steady toward others.

THIS is what made his viewers turn from being "controllers" to becoming supporters and coaches, always sticking up for him after an encounter when he was unfailingly kind to someone who in the end truly deserved a slap on the wrist for what they said or how they treated him. His viewers always provide that slap! Tristan reacts to those messages and thanks us for them and it is clear that he truly needed those messages in his defense, but he never shares the defending messages themselves, always remaining the truly diplomatic gentleman to the end.

No matter what is thrown at him, he finds his way to his core center of genuine steadiness, understanding the big picture, keeping a great work ethic, and actually building a team not only of the production staff but amazingly building a team among his viewing public!

And THAT is amazing. THAT is fascinating tv.; 6:38 PM

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