As promised, I wanted to share with you a bunch of webisodes from my documentary series LOCKOUT. These videos were originally produced and licensed to Eveo.com in 1999 during the first Internet boom. They were intended to have a guerilla filmmaking style to inspire other video enthusiasts to submit videos. The site was basically YouTube before there was a YouTube. I was one of the few people that were paid to seed the site with content for their launch. Unfortunately, most people in 1999 did not have broadband connections and the streaming time was very slow. Hence the dot-com crash of 2001.The series focuses on the creative process of breaking bands in New York and Los Angeles. I am posting these videos as a way to get a sense of what was being produced back then and how original content for the Internet created its own form.
I feel the greatest success of this series was capturing the energy and passion of those individuals I was documenting. It's up close and personal. Out of the handful of artists I featured, Linkin Park by far was the greatest success. That year they released their debut album and became the biggest selling act of the year (see the videos in my previous post about the series).
Below are the additional video clips from the series. I hope you dig them and feel free to leave a comment with your thoughts.
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