The Book of Jer3miah | |
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Genre |
Suspense Thriller Drama |
Created by | Jeff Parkin |
Starring |
Jared Shores Jeffrey Blake Camee Anderson Faulk Blayne Quarnstrom Richie Uminski Becca Ingram Jourdan Lance Christopher Sherwood Davis |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 20 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) |
Jared Cardon Jeff Parkin |
Running time | 2 – 15 min. |
Production company(s) | Tinder Media |
Release | |
Original release | 3 February – 12 June 2009 |
External links | |
Website |
The Book of Jer3miah is an American live-action web series created by a group of Brigham Young University students and faculty members. It follows the experience of college freshman, Jeremiah Whitney, who accepts the charge to protect a mysterious Mesoamerican box. When Jeremiah’s parents are mysteriously murdered, Jeremiah learns that he is the target of a frightening conspiracy, requiring courage and faith to escape. Every facet of his life is called into question, and now he must uncover the truth about the box, the conspiracy, and his very identity, before it's too late. The series follows Jeremiah as he defends his life and the lives of his friends from the mounting threats that surround them. The show's first season, due to funding constraints, was created with almost no budget and consists of 20 two- to fifteen-minute webisodes. The series also incorporates an alternate reality game with its hub at TheDavenportPapers.com.
The project is inspired by Web 2.0 fiction like Gemini Division, 24's The Rookie, and webisodes from The Office. It also follows the interactive nature of Bungee’s I Love Bees experience, The Truth About Marika, and BMW's The Hire game. It is the first known university-sponsored web series that uses transmedia storytelling, and also the first Latter-day Saint themed web series.
Tonally, the show has been compared to serialized programs like Lost, 24 and Twin Peaks. It has also been compared to the fictional works of filmmaker Richard Dutcher and LDS author Orson Scott Card, whose article, "The Problem of Evil in Fiction", was used extensively by the BYU class when developing the series.