For World Television Day (11/21): TV from Video Tombstones...The next big thing in Storytelling

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Nov. 10, 2018 - PRLog -- FOR WORLD TELEVISION DAY (November 21st)...WHAT COULD BECOME THE NEXT BIG THING IN STORYTELLING...
STORIES TOLD THROUGH VIDEO TOMBSTONES AND A BOOK CALLED "CEMETERY OF LIES"

The book is by Robert Barrows, the inventor of a video tombstone called the Video Enhanced Gravemarker (U.S. Patent #7,089,495). You can see more about the video tombstone at www.barrows.com/invention.html and you can see more about "Cemetery of Lies" at www.barrows.com/novel.html

TELEVISION AND MOVIE PRODUCERS AND BOOK PUBLISHERS ARE ALWAYS ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THE NEXT BIG THING IN ENTERTAINMENT...

Will it be dinosaurs, aliens, vampires, zombies, secret agents or even fifty more shades of grey?

And...will it be interesting enough to build a franchise around it that could turn into an ongoing moneymaking machine that could produce sequel after sequel of big moneymaking hits?

Along these lines, Robert Barrows, the inventor of a video tombstone called the Video Enhanced Gravemarker, has also written a book based on stories told through video tombstones.

"The video tombstone is an ideal storytelling device for all kinds of entertainment projects from whodunits to horror stories, to historical pieces, to action and adventure stories, to love stories and zombie and vampire stories...plus all kinds of secret confession stories that could be told from beyond the grave through video tombstones, according to Barrows. The video tombstone could also be used as a storytelling device for a whole new genre of video games."

The book he wrote, "Cemetery of Lies" is a collection of intimate secret confessions, as told from beyond the grave, through video tombstones. The stories are about life and love, sex and romance, good and evil, success and money and Heaven and Hell, says Barrows. It's an easy read for a mass audience and the writing is sexy, provocative and humourous, too, and perhaps it could be the start of the next big franchise in entertainment...stories based on tales told through video tombstones."

"AND TALK ABOUT CONTROVERSY...in addition to being a fantastic storytelling device, video tombstones will have a tremendous impact on many aspects of society and they will also create a lot of controversies and some fascinating free speech issues," according to Barrows.

HERE ARE SOME OF THE FREE SPEECH ISSUES THAT MIGHT ARISE FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE THROUGH VIDEO TOMBSTONES:

1) What if someone confesses to a crime or makes an incrimination?
2) What is they say something slanderous?
3) What if they say something hurtful and cause emotional stress?
4) What if they say something anti-governmental? Do the dead have free speech rights, too?
5) What if they leak state secrets?
6) And what can you do if they say something that is true or untrue or not so nice about you?

How can you pull the plug, and whom can you sue?

Worse yet, how can you collect?

"With these kinds of free speech issues in mind, video tombstones could create some very interesting free speech issues that could go all the way to the Supreme Court, says Barrows, and that by itself will create some powerful marketing opportunities for entertainment "franchises" built around stories told through video tombstones."

PLUS, VIDEO TOMBSTONES WILL ALSO HAVE A TREMENDOUS IMPACT ON MANY ASPECTS OF SOCIETY:

1) Video tombstones will change the way we look at life and death.
2) Video tombstones will change the way that history is told.
3) Video tombstones will create some major changes in estate law so that people may have to specify that "Yes, they do want a video tombstone or No, they do not want a video tombstone." And if the person doesn't make a video prior to their death, or if they don't specify who among their survivors may make a video, and what people can say in a posthumous video, will survivors be able to make a video to be played in their video tombstone?"
4) Video tombstones will also create a whole new genre of storytelling, with all kinds of stories that may be told through video tombstones...to which Barrows submits his book called "Cemetery of Lies." You can see more about Cemetery of Lies at www.barrows.com/novel.html
5) In addition, the advent of the video tombstone will also create two new industries:
A) Manufacturing video tombstones
B) Producing content for use in video tombstones

6) "Plus, video tombstones will also make cemeteries fascinating places to visit, according to Barrows, because who knows what kinds of juicy stories might be entombed in the video tombstones of both celebrities and ordinary people? And who knows who was doing what with whom, he adds. Perhaps we shall find out from their video tombstone?"

7) Video tombstones will also create some major new revenue opportunities for many sectors of the funerary industry including monument builders, funeral homes, perpetual care fund providers and cemeteries.

8) In addition, there are also several pieces of upcoming legislation regarding our "digital afterlife" and "the right to be forgotten"...(and, "the right not to be forgotten") that may also create some fascinating controversies about video memorials online and video tombstones."


For more information, contact Robert Barrows at  R.M. Barrows, Inc. Advertising & Public Relations at 650-344-4405.