11.29 | '24' season four trailer: 'Instinct Never Dies'

Here it is: the one and a half minute long version of the '24' season four trailer. It's longer than the version that's been floating around the internet for the past week or so.

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11.10 | Vodafone lures 3G customers with 24-inspired drama

A made-for-mobile drama inspired by the hit spy series '24' will be one of numerous innovations Vodafone hopes will persuade 10m users to sign up to its new 3G services, which launch today across the globe. The mobile phone giant is launching 3G in 13 countries, including the UK, Japan, Germany, France and Australia. It is rivalling Orange and Hutchison's 3 with services including video calling, full-track music downloads and content such as the made-for-mobile drama inspired by '24', the real-time serial where Kiefer Sutherland must save Los Angeles from terrorist attacks. Dubbed 'Mobisodes', people will be able to view a series of 24 one-minute films called '24: Conspiracy', which tracks a parallel plot of specially created characters inspired by the television show.

UPDATE:

'Conspiracy', however, will star different characters and actors. In the series' first mobisode (a term that Fox has already trademarked), a rogue Counter Terrorist Unit agent named Susan Walker (Beverly Bryant) kills a big shot government official. Her fellow CTU-er Martin Kail (Dylan Bruce) is hot on her trail, but exactly who the bad guy is will be up in the air, as Kail may just be a pawn in a conspiracy that involves his CTU bosses.

11.05 | Posting the Shot: How Fox's '24' Paces Itself for Real-Time Drama

"We shoot a lot of footage," says Cassar. "We probably cover more than most shows do and we do it very unconventionally. We shoot through things, we constantly move the camera. We do a lot of hand-held, but not in a NYPD way. In a very feel-natural way. We very rarely give you a point of view that isn't from a human perspective. I can count the number of times we did crane shots in the whole year — those are very unrealistic points of view from a human being. If you're standing or sitting looking at something, that’s exactly where our camera is. It keeps you in play as an audience."

"It can be tricky staying with the real-time thing," says Powell. "It gets to be a house of cards. If there's a scene that really doesn’t work well and we want to lose it, we have to find a scene to insert in between. I've deleted actors from shows entirely. Sometimes we pass scenes from one show to another. [For instance,] the beginning of episode 22 used to be the ending of show 21."

Here's an interesting article about how episodes of '24' are shot and edited together, including an interview with Jon Cassar.