5-Second Films

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5-Second Films or 5 Second Films or simply 5SF was an American film group and website that developed and produced an online comedy web series of five-second long short films as well as a series of long films that have been viewed over 115 million times on YouTube.[1] It was started in the dormitories at the University of Southern California in the spring of 2005 by Brian Firenzi. The website went live in October 2008. They featured a new film every weekday with the only rules being two seconds of opening titles, five seconds of film consisting of a quick set-up and punchline, and one second of end titles.[2]

The films were mostly unrelated to each other but did have some running gags and films that were part of a larger continuous sketch as well. The website has been featured on G4's Attack of the Show!, Comedy Central's Tosh.0, Last Call with Carson Daly, Spin, CNN[3] and Wired.[4] The films sometimes featured guest stars like Patton Oswalt, Doug Benson, Eddie Pepitone, "Weird Al" Yankovic, and Andrew W.K.[5] Time put 5-Second Films on its list of the top 50 websites of 2013, calling it "addicting" and writing, "You'll probably never find a better way to waste a few seconds of your life."[6]

Members

5-Second Films was made up of a group of writers, directors, filmmakers, actors, and actresses, most of whom lived in the same house where they planned and filmed the shorts.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "5 Second Films". Youtube. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "About Us". 5 Second Films. 
  3. ↑ http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2013/04/20/exp-5-second-films.cnn
  4. ↑ "5 Second Films". Tosh.0. Comedy Central. 
  5. ↑ "Patton Oswalt's 5 Second Film: You Got Mail". Huffington Post. 
  6. ↑ Fields, Jim (May 4, 2013). "50 Best Websites 2013". TIME.com. Retrieved May 12, 2013. 

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