NipTuck utilities the MySpace profile in a different way. Instead of employing character profiles for each member of the major cast they developed a single profile for a key character who happened to be the antagonist of the third season, as reported in the article “TV Characters Blog Their Way to Build Ratings” by Leo Juares. There aims were, through the blog, to convey ideas of the rapist character in ways they could not over the television. Their hopes were to “create a buzz and involve the audience in a whole new way”. This is the initial notion of my project idea, to get the audience interacting in a more creative manner and sharing their knowledge and opinions back with the fictional characters and ultimately the Producers who can then use this collective information to their advantage to make their show more appealing to their given audience. Later in the same article and interviewee is quoted to have said “one thing MySpace is really good at creating is creating community” which is a really nice touch. What I hadn’t yet realized is that those members of Chalkhills audience who were either out of the locality or even out of the country probably do not interact with other fans. There is no fan site as such for members of Chalkhill to fans to come together and create a discourse on. So once again MySpace will be the perfect place to initially create this platform where fans can share ideas.
