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What Are You Waiting For?

17 Aug

What Are You Waiting For?

What Are You Waiting For? is a concept for an interactive video opinion ‘stock exchange ‘ designed to be accessed in places people wait, both online and in the real world: Airports, planes, Doctors’ surgeries, trams, train stations and public meeting places as well as in social media spaces:  Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

What Are You Waiting For? lets users participate in an entertaining and dynamic exchange of opinions by curating, filtering, watching, rating, agreeing, disagreeing and commenting on entertaining and topical bite-sized video opinions (VOPs) from a diverse range of high profile and everyday ‘characters’ – as well as – contributing their own video opinions.

Video Opinion Content Sample

From bricklayers to foreign students, football players to comedians, bankers and high-school students, from sous chefs and ticket inspectors, stay at home mums, pensioners and indigenous soccer players to administrators, lesbians, socialites and recent immigrants – What Are You Waiting For? will capture and curate a ‘living library’ of video opinions on a diverse range of topics from The Carbon Tax to PDAS (Public Displays of Affection ), from pokie playing to politics, from road rage to God. ..and,  reward users for their interaction.

Users earn status and rewards as they ‘build their portfolios’ by watching, rating, agreeing, disagreeing (or fence-sitting), commenting on video opinions, predicting public opinion, voting in opinion polls and by posting their own opinions and insights – with those VOPs that are highest rated, most-popular or most-controversial, earning the user more stock and status..

What Are You Waiting For? is in development.

The Haunting of Daniel Gartrell – Promotional Mockumentary Video Series

5 Jun

I recently conceived, directed and produced a series of short viral mockumentary videos for the Straightjacket Productions stageplay, The Haunting of Daniel Gartrell with Samuel Johnson and John Wood.

The viral videos were released in the lead up to and in the aftermath of the 2011 TV Week Logie Awards and were a ‘fly-on-the-wall’ mockumentary view of the play’s rehearsals in which the actors play ‘versions’ of themselves.

The videos were shot and edited by Stuart Liddell (Industrial Cuts and Crossfades) and improvised by Samuel Johnson, John Wood and Marcella Russo around loosely scripted scenarios written by myself.

The Concept: Samuel Johnson Wants a Logie

Samuel Johnson has been nominated for two Logie awards in 2002 and 2003 but has never won. John Woods has won 6 logie awards.

The viral video series centres around the concept that Sam Johnson really wants a Logie award, is obsessed by John Wood’s career Logies haul and that The Haunting of Daniel Gartrell is part of Sam’s strategy to win a Logie..one day.

Sam’s plan? Do theatre, grow facial hair, get taken seriously as an actor, get a lead role on TV as a cop or a doctor …equals Logie.

Video 1 – Samuel Johnson’s Rehearsal Brain Snap

Samuel Johnson has a meltdown about not having a Logie Award during rehearsals with John Wood for the Haunting of Daniel Gartrell.

Video 4 -Samuel Johnson’s Post-Logies Reaction

Sam is feeling flat after his attendance at the Logies on Sunday night and calls a break in rehearsals.

Video 7 – Sam Johnson Has a Meldown in Rehearsals

With Gartrell opening soon, Sam’s feeling the pressure but still has time to reflect on his allure with the ladies.

Visit the Straightjacket Youtube Channel to watch the full series of videos.

The Haunting of Daniel Gartrell is currently playing at fortyfive downstairs in Melbourne.

The Fools of April

2 Apr

A social media round up of April Fools Day using Storify:

http://storify.com/marissajcooke/fools-of-april

Writer Vs Producer: Script Notes 1

27 Mar

I was inspired to create my own tongue-in-cheek crew member vs crew member movie …way too much fun!

 

Video Editing Hell

27 Mar

A freelance editor’s nightmare in animation – brilliant!

 

Live the Sheen Dream

2 Mar

Digital media at it’s most responsive: a random Charlie Sheen inexplicable quote generator inspired by his recent ABC interview.

No. We Can’t.

Crowd-Funded Rainbow Warrior Campaign

2 Mar

Great crowd fund-raising campaign site for Greenpeace from DDB Paris.

The campaign enables you to ‘buy’ elements of the new Rainbow Warrior  in order to fund the ship’s construction.

An LCD screen in the on-board campaign office will cost you 500 euros while a biro will only set you back 1 euro.

Everyone who donates to the ship’s construction will have their name appear on the contributor’s list on board and receive a certificate of ownership.

The elegant website has an impressive cinematic feel and emotive soundtrack – it lets users navigate the new rainbow warrior via multiple views including 3D, to browse items ‘for sale’, as well as connecting to a live construction video cam.

If you want a piece of the iconic ship, act fast -  real-estate is selling fast.

Bluebird AR – Online Drama & ARG

16 Feb

Bluebird AR – ABC Innovation

I was commissioned by the ABC to write scripts for the online video components of  Bluebird AR – ABC’s alternate reality drama launched in April 2010, set around the leak of Bluebird, a clandestine geoengineering initiative created by eco-billionaire Harrison Wyld.

Proposing a fictional scenario set against a backdrop of real world possibilities, Bluebird AR took some of the conventions of the well-established alternate reality game (ARG) genre and pulled them into the relatively new area of online drama, to create a hybrid entertainment form best described as ‘participatory drama’.

Here are some excerpts:

To Launch or Not to Launch

The Launch is Set

The Showdown

Bluebird AR >

Erky Perky – Series 3 – Bughouse

30 Oct

Finally have copies of the Erky Perky Erky Perky Series 3 episodes I wrote:

Bughouse © Ambience Entertainment

Rush Underground – Webisode Pilots

25 Oct

Co-writer and Producer for two short-format webisode Pilots for the RUSH TV series (Channel 10) – Southern Star Productions in association with Straightjacket Productions.

Rush Underground centers around the life of RUSH ops room God Leon Broznic (Samuel Johnson) when he’s not at work for the TR team.



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