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This video is sponsored by AT&T: These kids on the beaches of Southern California aren’t asking the question, they’re living it. It’s ‘@SummerBreak’, and if you know anything about the episodes, you’ll be familiar with its drama-driven narrative, constantly edgy and sometimes emotional cast.
Though only 15 webisodes deep, social media’s first reality series is already making some noise on Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr and Instagram.
@SummerBreak, a daily web series that details the lives of high school seniors as they spend their final summer together before college, has so far amassed more than 115,000 Twitter followers and has bagged roughly 500,000 views on YouTube since its debut almost two weeks ago. This is a pleasant surprise for the show’s producer, Billy Parks.
A quick look at YouTube comments and Twitter replies, you’ll see that @SummerBreak has been receiving swaths of requests for longer episodes. The length of episodes so far have been shorter than five minutes each, with some barely longer than a minute. In an interview with Mashable, Parks said that his team is taking this into account and will start making longer shows.
“It’s always a challenge when you’re doing things in real time without the benefit of three or four months of editing and hindsight of storylines. The challenege is, ‘How do we make sure we’re telling a story that’s going to follow all the way through?’ So we have to pick bits and pieces. It’s a different experience than what people are used to,” Parks said.
