Research on Movies/Films for story line.

So, in order to get some interesting story line with the helps of other movies or story from books...

I've watched 3 movies tonight.. which is "the call", "house at the end of the street" and "the roomate"...

The Call

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1911644/

Basically..this movie is about a girl being abducted and she called to 911 emergency center and have a long conversation with the operator.

Basically both main character uses "mobile phone" throughout the movie which I think this might be what I need since I'm adding the "phone interaction" element in my video..

However, I still couldn't see any part of this movie is related to my main message..

House at the end of the street

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1582507/

Okay..this is another movie which I think is quite related to my message.

 A boy which looks nice, polite or even good looking but he turns out to be a psycho person due to some unhappy or unpleasant childhood memory. 

It falls under "horror" category which is what I want my video to be..so..

under consideration. 

The Roomate

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1265990/

So, this is another movie which I think quite fit into my message but the story is pretty straight forward.

People might easily guess the ending without finish it.. 

So..I guess it's just like what lecturers said,

" not impressive ending "..

Conclusion is that..I've to continue watch more movies tomorrow to get better story line. 

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After one night,
 finally think of a story that I can come out from this movie,
"the roommate".
Erm...basically the story content and characters are closer to our lifestyle.

So..story is about friendships of two roomates. 
They're great..get along with each other, close, hang out together..
share their secrets.. talk about friends around them.
Everything looks normal, however things became a little bit weird after sometime..

Let's say they're Sara and Becky. 
Sara found out things around here became a little bit weird..
friends around her is going away..
ex boyfriend suddenly lost contact after she moves into this new place...
Her kitten just disappear after sometime..

And at last, she discovers that it's all because of her roomate, Becky.

I haven't really think of how's the ending gonna be... but it might be like..
in order not to let Sara leave her again, Becky finally locks her in the room.
So this will be the last part which contains lot of decision making where Sara is gonna call the user/audience with phone provided so that they can help her find the way out.

The back part will be little bit looks like the movie "The Call" which, 
a girl being abducted called the operator and they hold this call most of the time..
and get back to it after some dangerous moments.

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However, I'm still quite worry that the story line doesn't impress the users...
So..I might continue look for other movies/stories.

Story line research

In this post, I'm gonna do research on different story line which brings a message or the same message as mine.
So that I can come out with a more interesting story line or ending which impress users.

Message : Don't judge a person by it's appearance

Usually with this kind of message people will know, 
good looking = bad guy
bad looking = good guy

This is how people usually set the character. So, I need to do something different. 

I've few thoughts..

first. 

second.

KILLER.
It's about a detective investigating a case murderer and she/he makes lot of assumption and prediction of the murderer. The detective predicts that the murderer might be a guy which is a friend of the decedents. Base on the crime scene's condition, the detective is sure that this person should be a bloody murderer. However, things turned out differently. The murderer is actually a girl who nearly being raped / bullied by this bunch of guys.

interactive video research

In this post, I wanna find out different type of interactive youtube or video and analyse them. Find out which type or how many options given to the user are better.

8-bit harry potter

This is actually an interactive flash game.

American Idol Interactive Experience

This is something I think "looks" different but actually using the same method which,

you able to choose any character you want, 

and after that they'll allow you to continue choosing other characters..

But the feeling is more interactive, more like a game. It's not bad.

Hold your breath

Among all this, this is another type of video which only 1 option and only have 1 stage.

The way they interact with user is talk to the audience. The challenge the audience.

Anyway, it's kinda bored if only provide 1 option and 1 stage.

Bboy vs Joker

this is slightly different..

They got like few options for you to choose..but it's like a game. 

So you have to follow what they gave you, then you choose the same option.

Angry Birds Real Life Interactive 3D Game

This is just a very simple and common interactive video..except for one part,

which you have to click on the "mini angry bird" in the middle of the video playing. 

It's nice. I'll be considering to add in this element into mine.. :)

This is a video I found previously, which the audience able to communicate/interact with the protagonist through mobile phone.
Through flyers, the audience being informed that they have to send their contact number to the database..
and the protagonist will call to one of the audience's mobile phone.

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Lastly, I decided that it's necesary for me to add in this mobile element into my interactive video. 
After watching lots of videos which some of it I didn't add into this blog.. because they're not really useful.. 
just watching it because I've to get more references..
So, after watching them I think most of the interactive videos are using the same way which they require the user to click/choose the options ..and it would jump to the next scene..
and I definitely think this is quite tradition means quite bored.. 
except if they have nice storyline. 

So..mobile interaction is kinda new and special after all. 

Besides...in terms of the number of options provide to the user,
I would probably fix it around 2 to 3..maximum would be 3.
I watched some a video which they have 4 to 5 or even 6 options for the user...
but somehow, it's gonna be quite confuse.
User would definitely wish to restart the video and go for those options they did not choose..
and if there're too many options..they might get confuse whether which one they did not choose previously.
Therefore, I would prefer 2 to 3 options for my user.

statement of intent

SOI submission --> statement of intent

Interactive horror film/video/movie

Hahaa!!!!!! 

I found this nice and interesting interactive video,

 which the main character in the movie will call the audience and interactive with them by asking their opinion.

The programme/coding will somehow recognize certain words such as okay, no, right, left and so on.

After the audience answer, the character will continue with the story according to the chosen option.

Isn't it interesting??

INTERACTIVE HORROR MOVIE: Survive the House (Start Here)

This story is being lil bit too draggy...and too many options which will confuse the user.

I guess slowly user doesn't really know which option they didnt choose before..

and they might choose the same option again.

So, is not really good to have too many option. 

Maybe minimum 2 or 3 should be fine. 

13TH STREET „Last Call 

 This is the one I love the most which I've explained it earlier that the character interact with the audience by calling them. 

Then, user would be able to hear their breath, their real voice through phone. 

According to sweii, it is something like connect the virtual and reality world? 

But I called it 3D..haha! Which is wrong term. 

I actually think of changing my entire topic or theme into creating something horrific or creepy to provide a new experience to the user. So that they can feel they're totally immerse into the video/movie/story which usually we won't have that. This is because normally we only watch movie in one perspective which is audience, but with this way, you able to decide the ending of the story and you're part of it. 

survive the out break

This is another interactive video which I found quite sometime. 

I think the special and best part of it is the video's quality is good but I don't really attracted with the story line.

In terms of interactivity is quite common..which they got 2 options all the time. 

It's just for my reference :) 

lost cause

To begin this game you have to select one of the three perspective (small box). You may just choose one of it to follow at anytime, by roll over to it. However

After considering quite sometime, I think I just have to combine creepy element into my theme and create an horrific story yet brings out the message :) So this would not only attracts people who wish to find out my message but alsho those who love exciting story. 

Research on Stories

I'm now looking for story which carries the message of " don't judge a person by it's appearance". Since I heard a true story from Sweii which our senior did it and I think is awesome and touching. So, Im gonna try with true story. :) 

article website : robert terson

it's a story from the writer's father which deliver a message of never judge anyone by appearances alone.


video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFws-7lcUGo
don't judge me - a true story 

I don't really understand the content of this video but after watching it, I was thinking instead of a complete narative video maybe I can do something like documentary film?

video

This is a really good story line for me to take it as reference. It's all about a guy who work in this "furniture shop/company" and he kinda like this pretty lady who quite look down on him because of his appearance and job. So, he made a changes. He bought a nice outfit and classy car then he started to approach this lady and he made it. 

However on the next day she found out that the guy who approached her yesterday was actually this staff working in her company. 

I guess it's kinda interesting storyline and bring out the message clearly. It's understandable. 

story time : don't judge a book by it's cover

I read this article..it's kinda fit into my message. However, I guess it's too straight forward and just a normal story which I don't really feel it's interesting. So..forget about it :'( 

dubai dark sides

Wow..dubai dark sides..there're few true stories in this site is all convey the same message as in, dubai is not like what we think of/what we seen. We won't know the dark side or stories behind unless we experience ourself.

It's kind like interesting but quite hard to use these similar stories for my video. I'll consider about it and continue look for more stories :)

Don't judge by appearance

I think this is kinda interesting and touch. However, I don't really like it..maybe I can modify a lil bit if really wanna make it as my video's story. 

Cathy glass - damaged

I think this would be an interesting story which this writer, cathy glass, an experienced foster carer who look after a kid's name Jodie and she tried to find out the stories behind this kid that changed her personality. 

It would definitely be a nice story to talk about, but it's a book and I can't really get it through online without paying. Besides, I've to look for a kid to act in my video if I decided to use this story.

After all these researches, I don't think that true story is really a good idea for my video. For example, the 3rd story I posted here which is an commercial that the guy fell in love with the girl working together with her. It's not a true story but it's fun.

So I might go into self-created story :) 

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