Interactive Movies and Performance

Interactive Movies and Performance

Screen Tests

“Gamification”• Originally developed by marketers who applied game

mechanics to incentivize behaviour.• More recently the concept has come to mean

“applying game-design thinking to non-game applications to make them more fun and engaging.”

Gamification of Movie Characters• Give audiences ability to choose plot

progression and viewing of certain characters.• The promise of cinema experience

interactivity has been eclipsed by videogames.• Most popular use is still by advertisers and

pornographers. Still room for artists?

Ellen Page as Tracy Berkowitz

The Tracy Fragments (Bruce McDonald, 2007)

Director made available the raw footage for people to experiment with their own edited versions. Interactive movie in the Creative Process.

Oscar winner Juno. Screen Test

Ellen Page as Genre? Her ideology? Symbol of Idealism? Typecast?

Ellen Page Roles includeX-Men: Days of Future Past | Kitty Pryde, 2013

To Rome with Love | Monic,  2012

Inception | Ariadne, 2010

Juno | Juno MacGuff, 2007

The Tracey Fragments | Tracey, 2007

Hard Candy | Hayley Stark, 2005

Oscar nomination, Juno. Screen Test

Ellen Page as Genre? Her ideology? Symbol of Idealism? Typecast?

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