Choose Your Victim
Originally published in tandem with the release in June 2012. Watch the Episode 1 below to get started.
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Choose Your Victim is a horror web-series based out of Vancouver, B.C.
Creators: Gigi Saul Guerrero and Luke Bramley Cast: Jessica Harmon, Jj Web, Elysia Rotaru, Nathan Dashwood, Breann Grainger, Jonathan Woodhall, Cole Matthews, and Lauren Webber. |
Episode 2 Review
Choose Your Victim is a new interactive web series that allows its viewers to decide who dies and how exactly they die. Every viewer who wishes to participate goes to http://www.chooseyourvictim.com and the scenarios can be as creative as the person wishes. The best scenario is picked as the basis for the next episode. At the end of the episode that person is credited.
Now I’m gonna review episode two, as episode one was simply used to introduce the characters and explain how the show works.The group consists of eight people, four males, and four females. Each character is different, some are dumb, some are virgins, and some are experienced. The show acts as a form of a parody on reality TV as we have a habit of hating almost every character right off the bat. We’re actually encouraged to despise the characters (a good tactic to further motivate audience participation and creativity.)
Episode Two picks up from the action of where the previous episode left off. The majority of the characters are looking to get laid, and of some them actually succeed.
Now there are a couple of things that I like about this show so far that set it apart from the traditional reality TV knock off. The first being that the camera crew are much more obvious and almost become secondary characters in the plot. They interact with the main characters, instead of being flies on the wall. I think in a way this makes the whole scenario feel less staged as the characters end up talking to actual people that the audience also sees, instead of unknown blank viewers.
The second tactic is a clever use of the main casts’ cell phones, along with the ‘surveillance’ cameras in the cabin to let the audience see into rooms, situations, and perspectives that the camera crew failed to catch up with. Its a clever method to move a narrative along without breaking the reality TV illusion. This is actually used in several documentary-style features (District 9 being an example) where several different sources of footage are pooled together to build the narrative.
The nameless, faceless, and voiceless character that carries out the bloody deed was used quite well, in a fashion that made the episode less predictable (an essential tactic in any short of horror project).
Now my technical analysis aside, the series itself is quite hilarious with the character interactions, violence and dirty jokes being the strong points. This show is certainly not for the more conservative crowd. Obviously you’ll have to watch the episode to see who got killed first and how.
Choose Your Victim is a new interactive web series that allows its viewers to decide who dies and how exactly they die. Every viewer who wishes to participate goes to http://www.chooseyourvictim.com and the scenarios can be as creative as the person wishes. The best scenario is picked as the basis for the next episode. At the end of the episode that person is credited.
Now I’m gonna review episode two, as episode one was simply used to introduce the characters and explain how the show works.The group consists of eight people, four males, and four females. Each character is different, some are dumb, some are virgins, and some are experienced. The show acts as a form of a parody on reality TV as we have a habit of hating almost every character right off the bat. We’re actually encouraged to despise the characters (a good tactic to further motivate audience participation and creativity.)
Episode Two picks up from the action of where the previous episode left off. The majority of the characters are looking to get laid, and of some them actually succeed.
Now there are a couple of things that I like about this show so far that set it apart from the traditional reality TV knock off. The first being that the camera crew are much more obvious and almost become secondary characters in the plot. They interact with the main characters, instead of being flies on the wall. I think in a way this makes the whole scenario feel less staged as the characters end up talking to actual people that the audience also sees, instead of unknown blank viewers.
The second tactic is a clever use of the main casts’ cell phones, along with the ‘surveillance’ cameras in the cabin to let the audience see into rooms, situations, and perspectives that the camera crew failed to catch up with. Its a clever method to move a narrative along without breaking the reality TV illusion. This is actually used in several documentary-style features (District 9 being an example) where several different sources of footage are pooled together to build the narrative.
The nameless, faceless, and voiceless character that carries out the bloody deed was used quite well, in a fashion that made the episode less predictable (an essential tactic in any short of horror project).
Now my technical analysis aside, the series itself is quite hilarious with the character interactions, violence and dirty jokes being the strong points. This show is certainly not for the more conservative crowd. Obviously you’ll have to watch the episode to see who got killed first and how.
