dpoyesac
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Post by dpoyesac on Sept 11, 2006 9:01:52 GMT -5
I haven't seen this particular take on things discussed much, so I wanted to start a new thread dealing with this possibility explicitly.
Everyone is trying to figure out what is going on. Horror movie tie-in? Religious proselytizing? Real girl who happens to be an editing virtuoso?
But here's another, more likely, possibility: maybe this is just a story. Not a tie-in, lead-in or fake out, but just a story someone wanted to tell, and they realized there was a new and creative way to tell it.
This theory has generally been filed under the 'creative college kids' label and then dismissed for more juicy conspiracy theories, but after the CAA connection it seems more than likely that this is nothing more than a story.
Think of it this way: when we see movies, read books or play games, we know what the pay-off will be and we know how to tell when we reach the end -- the film stops running, the book runs out of pages or everyone playing the game goes home. But if this is a new way of telling some narrative, then no one here, no one involved and interested, really has any idea what the end of this will look like. That's why everyone here is so busy trying to force this square-peg named Bree into the round holes we're usually familiar with.
If this is a new form of story-telling, I hope the payoff is as compelling as the lead-in. And if it is just a marketing tie-in I will never watch any crazy YouTube viral marketing ploy again.
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Post by wixy15 on Sept 11, 2006 10:08:22 GMT -5
I have always felt that this project was not the brainchild of a large organisation as part of viral marketing, instead I have maintained my inital belief that is the production of a smaller group of people. I have read all of the conspiracy theories followed all the twists and turns, but have never changed my mind. I can understand your point about it being *just* a story, however you have to bear in mind how much interaction the creators have courted. A story is one thing but I think this is a modern mystery game.
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Post by dpoyesac on Sept 11, 2006 11:12:01 GMT -5
You are right -- I wasn't fully clear. By "just a story" I meant that the goal may be (so I believe) to tell a new, non-traditional story in a new, non-traditional way. A game still implies winners and losers and a specific, pre-set goal -- figuring out the secret, finding the MacGuffin.
The interactive part is the cool part, the "new, non-traditional" part, but that doesn't mean that the goal of this whole thing is the interactive part.
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Post by wixy15 on Sept 11, 2006 11:28:12 GMT -5
Ultimately, I want it too be a story. There have been suggestions that it could venture in to the 'Viewer picks the story' category, I think this would totally distroy the solid foundations that have already been put in place. I do not want to choose the story line, like you I want to be told a story, but I do maintain that the interacton is key. We should also bear in mind that the interaction is between the fans, as well as between the fans and the creators.
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Post by johnnypanic13 on Sept 11, 2006 11:34:59 GMT -5
Ultimately, I want it too be a story. creators. Just out of curiosity, mostly because I'm not sure exactly where I stand, do you want it to be a purely "sit back and watch" movie, or something with a little viewer involvement? Like Lost (where you can dig a few clues and maybe solve some mysteries before they come out) or more like Desperate Housewives (where you just kinda watch and hope for something interesting).
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Post by wixy15 on Sept 11, 2006 12:33:48 GMT -5
I want them to continue to do what they have been doing. Placing obvious and not-so obvious clues in the videos. I want them to make us think about the clues and their various implications. I do not want them to ask us to pick what happens next in the story.
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Post by dpoyesac on Sept 13, 2006 8:49:22 GMT -5
Just because there's viewer investment in the story, doesn't mean there's viewer involvement. I think it's silly when stories become 'choose your own... that is... Bree's adventure" style things. The plots become middle-of-the-road; since not every can agree, what gets chosen is what is least offensive to the most people -- just like democracy. And that sounds boring.
But interaction, as we all band together and try to figure out what is going on, builds community, builds anticipation, and builds investment in the story and the characters.
We have no idea how this is going to turn out, which makes my worries for Bree (the character, not the actress) even more intense. In horror movies, we know what happens: the main character lives or dies, we throw away our empty popcorn boxes and drive home. But there's no guarantee that this story will have that kind of closure; literally ANYTHING can happen. And that freaks us out more.
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Post by lesbrent on Sept 13, 2006 13:53:11 GMT -5
Is it what it is? The owner of lonelygirlfanclub.com speculated that it was a move from Revver. I'm not saying it is one way or another, however, has anyone been reading these articles? abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=nation_world&id=4557680And I quote "Bree's adventures will continue on a new Web site created in conjunction with the online syndication network Revver. The company helps videomakers profit from their efforts by attaching ads to each video, then burying a "tag" in the computer code that tracks where the video is posted. Revver then shares the ad revenue with the authors. " I'm not judging. I'd want to make money too.
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