About the Team
The whole team contains production team (focus on planning, shooting, and rough editing) and post-production team (focus on prodcution design, Front-end dev, and VFX)
JOHNSON(SHIWEI) SONG executive producer, NICOLE YOUNG director and writer, JACK CHEN assistant director, JAVAN HEIDE. TYUS BRO. LIZ SINGER. LAMONT JAMES BROWN. BILLY HENDERSON. MARK WILLIAMS FADEL. JEFF COOPER. DARIA MELNIK. MARK FRASER cast, KENNEDY SLOANE announcer, KENNY WELSH director of photography, WILLY WONG cinematographer, LESLEY LIU. KENNY WELSH. TYUS BRO. BILLY HENDERSON sound operators, WILLY WONG camera operator, LESLEY LIU. VINCENT LIU. LARAINE BIE set decorators, JOHNSON SONG production design, NICOLE YOUNG editor ANDRE WANG vfx, STEVE ZHANG front-end developer.
About the Story
Desperate for money, Jake (main character) participates in a mysterious experiment at a pharmaceutical company. However, as the story goes, Jake becomes more selfish and cruel. The users get to make choices for him towards the plot. Every choice will lead to different endings. Meanwhile, the single choice mechanism will trigger users’ curiosity and try all possibilities. This kind of film is more personal when someone is in control of the story which makes the storytelling process more unique and playable.
Process
In order to make sure the shooting space is more like the office location on our moodboard, we made up posters that demonstrate the style of medical and tech companies. By using dummy texts and biochemical/medical elements, the shooting background has been redesigned to be a pharmaceutical company.
We use typical HTML, CSS, JavaScript and JQuery library to implement the framework, styles, and interactions. However, the way of forcing the video player jump to certain area after making decision is a bit tricky. We ended up with aligning every clips (both "Yes" and "No" paths) into one big timeline, also we added additional black screens between each clip just for the sake of smooth transition. By forcing the video player to jump to specific time, we basically implemented the functions of "section and jump" with minimal lag.
Official Trailer
**Appologize for the low-resolution video due to the video screen ratio. The fully functional interactive site only works locally, publish version is in-progress, I will publish once it's done.
