Matthew
Tibbenham of the award winning series, The Wrong Guys for the Job brings you
his sophomore project, a horror movie in which you get to choose the outcome.
Ever
watch a horror movie and want to yell at the characters on screen? ‘What are
you doing? Run! Get out of there!’ or ‘Save the girl and hide!’ Now, you can
with Requiem.
“Requiem
is an interactive horror video where you the viewer decides what happens next,“
says Tibbenham. “Every viewing experience is different and there are multiple
endings to keep you coming back for more.”
With
his first Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style series, The Wrong Guys for the Job,
Tibbenham was dissatisfied with the limited ways to watch the series. On
YouTube, each video was separate, couldn't be viewed properly on mobile
devices, and it was up to the user to load the video that represented their
choice.
“The
technology for interactive video has really progressed in the last couple
years,” says Daniel Ballard, Executive Producer and star of Requiem, “things
are getting really exciting. Interactive video companies like Interlude, Rapt
Media, Adventr, and Vidzor have been popping up everywhere.” In Requiem, the
audience experience will be seamless. Whenever the hero has to make a decision,
the viewer simply clicks on their choice, ‘Save the Girl,’ ‘Stand & Fight,’
‘Run & Hide,’ etc. The viewer's decisions shape the outcome of the rest of
the story.
Now
that streaming video has caught up with Tibbenham and Ballard’s vision, they
decided the time was ripe to introduce the macabre into interactive
storytelling.
“We
thought the perfect genre to show off what interactive video can really be is
horror,” explains Tibbenham, who is no stranger to the genre, having worked as
the Second Unit Director of Sinister and the assistant to Scott Derrickson.
“There's something about combining interactive video and horror that makes it
even scarier. You'll be on the edge of your seat waiting to make the next
decision and wondering what's just around the next corner."
With
that level of personalization, the viewer can be truly terrified. No huge
amounts of blood and gore are necessary, simply placing the viewer directly
into the story will be enough to keep them terrified and looking over their
shoulder in the comfort of their own living room. It’s an effort that Edgar
Allen Poe himself would be proud of.
Requiem is currently raising funds on Indiegogo and will begin filming
this winter. https://igg.me/at/RequiemVideo
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