Hey guys,
the other day i went to “the office” website to watch a show or two and I came across a link that took me to Andy and Angela’s wedding website. I’m not sure who in the class is familiar with the office (i’m one of those people that prefered the british version), but Andy and Angela are two characters in the show that were going to get married, but then it fell apart. A separate story to that. Anyway, this wedding website is a pretty cool idea. They treat it as a real wedding website where people can register gifts, RSVP for the wedding (and write in comments to the bride and groom), take virtual tours of wedding/reception location and a lot of other things. Of course now that Angela and Andy aren’t getting married, the website seems a bit pointless but I like the idea of using the internet (or should I say, other modalities) to put a fictional world into the real world. It is very similar to what we saw in Cathy’s Book, with the phone numbers, websites, etc.
Since the Office is a mockumentary, it makes sense to treat each character as though they were real people. With this in mind, think of all the possibilities they could experiement with. Perhaps the new wave of entertainment is to treat everything as though it is real (kind of like an Andy Kauffman prank) and exploit this ‘realness’ through all the different mass media modes we have. Perhaps not, but i thought it was a clever website.