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Friday, December 11th, 2020 8:33 PM

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How to treat virtual online concerts

Now that the pandemic has forced many singers and musicians to make their concerts remotely, through the internet, I wonder how these shows should be introduced on IMDb. As presented by the artists, they're concerts, in all effects like live stage shows: only people with a ticket has access to them, they're watched live and then they're gone. But technically, as they're web livestreams, they could also qualify as web videos or web series, even if (unless if recorded and archived privately by the producers) they only exist while they're being broadcast, just like traditional concerts on TV. So my doubt is if they should be introduced in "Other works" as live stage shows or as regular web video/series titles.

And in the case of qualifying as titles, what do we do in the case of a virtual concert with multiple dates, like a tour of some kind? There are two possibilities. It could be a show recorded once and then the recording shown online on multiple dates, and it could also be true different live transmissions of the same show and, despite being the same show all of the times, it wouldn't be exactly the same as it's live and there could be variations between shows minor or not. In the first case I understand it would entered as a single show with an original first release. In the second case it's more tricky. Should they be entered as a series with different episodes despite being the same show performed multiple times live, or just as a single special with multiple dates like with prerecorded shows?

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Hey - this is a slightly complicated question. If it's the exact same performance video just streamed on multiple dates then it should be a single special, but if they do the show live every time I think it should be a series with the individual performances being episodes.

 

Think for example if you have a live comedy show and on one performance the comedian is able to call in another performer via Zoom but in the next show they can't.