Left to Right: Michael Tohl, Bernie Su, Nathan Atkinson, and Annemarie Pazmino show of the hardware.

We are proud to announce that Compulsions has received five Awards in the 2011 StayTunedTV Awards, including

Best Drama
Best Actor in a Drama – Craig Frank
Best Writing – Bernie Su
Audience Choice Award – Best Directing – Nathan Atkinson
Audience Choice Award – Best Actress in a Drama – Annemarie Pazmino

Director Nathan Atkinson holds up the Best Drama trophy. - Nathan also won the Audience Choice Award for Directing in a Drama.

Producer Michael Tohl holds up the Best Drama trophy

The team poses behind the three trophies for Drama, Writer, and Actor.

Bernie Su wins The Streamy for Best Writing in a Drama - photo by The Bui Brothers

Last night, at the 2nd annual Streamy Awards. Compulsions won a Streamy Award for Best Writing a Drama for Writer/Creator Bernie Su.

Compulsions was nominated for four Streamy Awards overall, aside from Writing, it also had nominations in Directing Nathan Atkinson, Actor Craig Frank, and Best Overall Drama.

A complete list of winners can be found here.

http://news.tubefilter.tv/2010/04/11/the-2nd-annual-streamy-awards-the-winners/

Other photos by the Bui Brothers from the Red Carpet – More will be added as we find them. – after the jump

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Watch the Streamy Awards live today at
http://newteevee.com/2010/04/10/where-to-watch-the-streamy-awards-online/
or at
http://streamys.org

and root for us.

Our Nominations again are as follows.

Actor in a Drama – Craig Frank

Writer in a Drama – Bernie Su

Director in a Drama – Nathan Atkinson

Drama Web Series

Thank You all for supporting us!

Craig Frank wields the belt against Taryn O'Neill

Looking back at our series, one of my favorite stories was the rumor that Craig Frank is a method actor. This started last July, back in Pre-production, when Craig came up to the production team with a request. He asked that during the days that we’d be shooting in the interrogation room, that he get some space to prepare and be by himself to be away from the hustle and bustle of the set. This one request would begin the chain of events that became “Craig Frank is a method actor”.
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Craig Frank on set.

It’s been a long couple weeks with the Streamy Nominations and such, I wanted this blog to come right after my previous two writing blogs on Themes and Drama, but this month continues to be a whirlwind. None the less, let’s get right into it.

Being a creator and a fan of Web Series I’ve found that many shows contain some form of narration. These types include, but are not limited to  -

• General Narrator - A person not part of the story/world telling the audience what is going on.
• Vlogging - A character speaking directly to the camera telling the audience what he/she is observing in the world.
• Voice Over(Internal Monologue) - A character speaking through her thoughts as he/she goes through the story.

Philosopher Jacques Lacan once said,
“The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible” (continue reading…)