VIDEO/VLOG: Pride and Prejudice as the Lizzie Bennet Diaries

[Ryan Goble]

This video series won a streamy award in 2014. Heroes a description from OMGFACTS

Pride and Prejudice is a timeless tale. In fact, it paved the way for a majority of the romantic comedies we see today, and has spawned multiple adaptations. You all probably know of the BBC miniseries, the 2005 Keira Knightly movie, and Bridget Jones' Diary.

Well, now we have the Lizzie Bennet Diaries; a web-series in which Elizabeth Bennet is a prominent Youtube vlogger/mass communications graduate student.

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is not just a show, it's an immersive (and some would say, addictive) transmedia experience. All the characters, from Lizzie Bennet to Lydia Bennet to William Darcy have their own twitter pages.

Audience members can tweet the characters, and sometimes the characters will even tweet them back. It's a daring feat of story-telling, and has been called "the best adaptation of Pride and Prejudice around." Jane Austen would have been proud.

A sample video

The Lizzy Bennet channel on YouTube