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Woovie - a Web Only Movie. This term is used to identify film and video creators who produce content exclusively for the web.

The original idea for a term to clasify web movies was Wovie. Wovie is the term used for internet movies or a [[[]]] as created and used by wovie.com

The word itself is a portmanteau formed by the words 'Web', 'Only' and 'Movie'.

[edit] Origin

The name wovie is made up of two separate words web and movie. Wovie Inc. is the namesake of the wovie term. Wovie is a digital-media studio providing creative products and services ranging from website design to feature-length films.

The term Wovie does not explicitely mean content only for the web. Do to these reasons a new term was needed and Woovie was created. This term was first coined by Lance Fischer a content creator who was looking for a term to classify his companies move to a web only movie producer. While the term movie usually means a full length feature film, the term is originally derived from the longer Moving Picture. Since that still holds true today, the term still applies to all video content currently uploaded to the web.

In 2008 only a hand full of production companies created content exclusively for the web. The few that did had to form organizations that helped to promote their new media art form. These companies have found it increasinly difficult to monetize their productions and have had to resort to using film festivals as a way to promote their series. One of the few film festivals to activly accept web series or woovies is the [itvfest.org]. Since 2005 they have been accepting submissions to their festival.

web television

Etymology Origins:

1998-99: First public use of the word Webisode, attributed to Stan Lee Media in the marketing and promotion of the 7th Portal online superhero series created by Jesse Stagg and Steven Salim. 1996: Earlier usage by the textually-based seaQuest 2047 to describe their periodic publications, beginning circa 1996. 1995: Created by the first Internet serialized fiction called The Spot created by Scott Zakarin It was used to describe the series. Derivational words also created at the time: Webisodic.

One of the few to productions to classify themselves as a woovie is the web horro production WeEvil. This horror based web series which is professionally produced exclisively for the web uses the term to classify its content.

Woovie.org was founded in 2009 as a web site that is used to promote the the works of other web only content makers.