{"id":14188,"date":"2012-01-13T12:11:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T20:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=14188"},"modified":"2012-01-13T12:11:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T20:11:35","slug":"frakes-joins-interactive-web-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2012\/01\/frakes-joins-interactive-web-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Frakes Joins Interactive Web Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em>&#8216;s <strong>Jonathan Frakes<\/strong> has joined <em>Beckinfield<\/em>, an online science fiction series, billed as the &#8220;first mass participation television program.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Beckinfield<\/em>, created by Theatrics, premiered last year and is the story of a small town that is anything but ordinary, where there are &#8220;snooping scientists, alleged UFOs, a seemingly haunted library,&#8221; and an &#8220;earthquake that &#8217;caused no damage.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/2012\/01\/frakes-joins-interactive-web-series\/frakes150-091310-7\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14191\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14191\" title=\"Frakes150-091310\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Frakes150-091310.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"122\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Participants in <em>Beckinfield<\/em> receive story updates and they then &#8220;film a video diary in the character they developed, using it to advance the story of a town whose run-in with the spirits of the natives who once occupied the land is wreaking havoc throughout the entire community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nearly three thousand actors take part in the project.<\/p>\n<p>Frakes will be playing Dylan Marks, a director of a play that will tell the story of <em>Beckinfield<\/em>. Those wishing to be part of this in-story play will be able to audition through their video diaries, with a winner (who will take home $10,000 in real life) to be announced at the upcoming MacWorld conference in San Francisco at the end of January.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have brought in an incredible casting director in<strong> Scott David<\/strong>, and when we decided that we were going to do this in-world contest and bring in a celebrity director who is part of the world of Beckinfield, Scott recommended the wonderful Jonathan Frakes,&#8221; said <strong>Tracy Evans<\/strong>, Chief Operations Officer of Theatrics. &#8220;He has become a character, and is actually going to be the final judge of this content that we have currently running.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To learn about <em>Beckinfield<\/em>, or to find out how to take part in the web series, head to the link located <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatrics.com\/beckinfield\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek: The Next Generation&#8216;s Jonathan Frakes has joined Beckinfield, an online science fiction series,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2442],"tags":[3961,2430],"class_list":["post-14188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tng","tag-beckinfield","tag-frakes"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tng\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TNG<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TNG","comment_count":"1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14197,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14188\/revisions\/14197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}