Creative Notes:
Full version with super-titles and dialogue.
Featured soundtrack courtesy of amazon studios.
Featured soundtrack courtesy of amazon studios.
7 2 7
When game life beats real life.
Project collaboration:
Open
Synopsis:
In present day southeast Asia an online game has captured the
attention of well educated teenagers. There is no violence in
the game, so most, but not all of its fans are female.
Level one play takes place in a new form of internet cafe.
These clubs are invite only and kept impeccably nice even in
the poorest neighborhoods.
Staffed by players and open 18 hours per day, a game seat
requires a reservation. In most locations seats are booked
for one to three hours weeks in advance.
Each club contains a waiting area for those with a reserved
game seat on that day. This is where most offline encounters
between players take place.
Because the reservation system is open for members to view,
players can anticipate who will be waiting with them. Good
players will have learned the play of every gamer present on
their day.
Maximizing positive outcomes.
Inside of the club there are seats for single players and
booths for two or more. Game shades are loaned like bowling
shoes, and avatar controls are built into the seating.
In game the club is reproduced in photo realistic detail and
can be interacted with through one's avatar. Level one
players have two avatars to choose from 090 and 150.
Each avatar has an autobiography. Exploration of these
autobiographies can take months of weekly play if taken
seriously. And most new players take the game VERY seriously.
Your avatar determines the rest of your game experience,
which in very real terms could decide which friends you have
in real life.
Choosing the right avatar could mean the difference between
building pleasure and mounting frustration.
In this test movie we are with 030.
030 is a level two player.
Level two players receive game systems and game shades to use
at home and on the road. Once a level two player finds a Game
Guide she might also receive free international travel to
attend meetings at clubs around the world.
This 030 has just left a real world meeting with her Game
Guide where progress on her team selection was thoroughly
analyzed, and new recruitment advice was received.
Itching to put some of these new ideas to the test she logs
in through her shades on the shuttle from the airport and
sees that one of her candidates has one hour of solo res time
in 3 hours.
She decides to offer a negotiation.
Level one's are not supposed to know about level two, but any
player who spends enough time in game will discover second
level hints at some point.
The 090 agrees enthusiastically to 030's offer.
030 logs off as the shuttle reaches her home.
She enters strokes her cat, says hey to her mom and heads to
her room to set-up. Her rig at home is a far more advanced
version than the systems at the clubs.
It has access to enormous data sets of level one play records, including graphs of physiological responses over time.
Most of a level two player's time is spent tuning this system
to automatically log, sort, and alert prospective team
members based on these data sets. Takes six team members to qualify for level three consideration.
And from what 030 can tell through her Guide, 210, who is a
level three player. You are taken care of by the game from
level three. Unlimited travel for life, with hotel stays
instead of couch surfing.
Total independence.
This is why she persuaded her mom to let her play full time
after turning 15. What's the point of school when university
graduates are living at home bored for lack of employment.
A negotiation is basically a real time exchange of most
recent level reels.
Level reels are soundtracks with short moving picture clips
composed from the stills captured in game while playing a
level experience.
Level experiences take place in luxury resorts and hotels
photo realistically reproduced in game for avatar
exploration.
These are the only places in game for two players to interact
in real time aside from the virtual copies of clubs.
You go to clubs in game mainly to plan new level experiences
with willing players. Do this successfully several times,
constantly refining your reels from each experience, and
eventually you might get noticed by a level two player.
At least that's the rumor circulated in clubs around the
world. For some it never happens. For this 030 it just has.
She's heard that level two's don't have to pay to play
anymore, that they even get free travel and lodging to attend
gatherings and events. She could only imagine.
Until now.
Decides to see if she can buy another's 3 hour res to finish
the reel for her most recent experience before her meet with this mysterious 030. Might be worth the extra expense.
~
In present day southeast Asia an online game has captured the
attention of well educated teenagers. There is no violence in
the game, so most, but not all of its fans are female.
Level one play takes place in a new form of internet cafe.
These clubs are invite only and kept impeccably nice even in
the poorest neighborhoods.
Staffed by players and open 18 hours per day, a game seat
requires a reservation. In most locations seats are booked
for one to three hours weeks in advance.
Each club contains a waiting area for those with a reserved
game seat on that day. This is where most offline encounters
between players take place.
Because the reservation system is open for members to view,
players can anticipate who will be waiting with them. Good
players will have learned the play of every gamer present on
their day.
Maximizing positive outcomes.
Inside of the club there are seats for single players and
booths for two or more. Game shades are loaned like bowling
shoes, and avatar controls are built into the seating.
In game the club is reproduced in photo realistic detail and
can be interacted with through one's avatar. Level one
players have two avatars to choose from 090 and 150.
Each avatar has an autobiography. Exploration of these
autobiographies can take months of weekly play if taken
seriously. And most new players take the game VERY seriously.
Your avatar determines the rest of your game experience,
which in very real terms could decide which friends you have
in real life.
Choosing the right avatar could mean the difference between
building pleasure and mounting frustration.
In this test movie we are with 030.
030 is a level two player.
Level two players receive game systems and game shades to use
at home and on the road. Once a level two player finds a Game
Guide she might also receive free international travel to
attend meetings at clubs around the world.
This 030 has just left a real world meeting with her Game
Guide where progress on her team selection was thoroughly
analyzed, and new recruitment advice was received.
Itching to put some of these new ideas to the test she logs
in through her shades on the shuttle from the airport and
sees that one of her candidates has one hour of solo res time
in 3 hours.
She decides to offer a negotiation.
Level one's are not supposed to know about level two, but any
player who spends enough time in game will discover second
level hints at some point.
The 090 agrees enthusiastically to 030's offer.
030 logs off as the shuttle reaches her home.
She enters strokes her cat, says hey to her mom and heads to
her room to set-up. Her rig at home is a far more advanced
version than the systems at the clubs.
It has access to enormous data sets of level one play records, including graphs of physiological responses over time.
Most of a level two player's time is spent tuning this system
to automatically log, sort, and alert prospective team
members based on these data sets. Takes six team members to qualify for level three consideration.
And from what 030 can tell through her Guide, 210, who is a
level three player. You are taken care of by the game from
level three. Unlimited travel for life, with hotel stays
instead of couch surfing.
Total independence.
This is why she persuaded her mom to let her play full time
after turning 15. What's the point of school when university
graduates are living at home bored for lack of employment.
A negotiation is basically a real time exchange of most
recent level reels.
Level reels are soundtracks with short moving picture clips
composed from the stills captured in game while playing a
level experience.
Level experiences take place in luxury resorts and hotels
photo realistically reproduced in game for avatar
exploration.
These are the only places in game for two players to interact
in real time aside from the virtual copies of clubs.
You go to clubs in game mainly to plan new level experiences
with willing players. Do this successfully several times,
constantly refining your reels from each experience, and
eventually you might get noticed by a level two player.
At least that's the rumor circulated in clubs around the
world. For some it never happens. For this 030 it just has.
She's heard that level two's don't have to pay to play
anymore, that they even get free travel and lodging to attend
gatherings and events. She could only imagine.
Until now.
Decides to see if she can buy another's 3 hour res to finish
the reel for her most recent experience before her meet with this mysterious 030. Might be worth the extra expense.
~
Latest Work
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Test Movie 2 - Final Cut07/29/11
All Work
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Test Movie 1 - final07/28/11
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