Project 02: Paper or Plastic.

My student film will document the creation and deeper meanings of Online and DnD identities as seen through their creator‘s eyes. People take their online persona’s seriously, none more so than with online games or as they‘re often called Multi Media Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGP) like World of Warcraft (WoW), and EverQuest (EQ). However these games have their bases derived from older Pen & Paper Games like Dungeons and Dragons (DnD). Through this documentary I will interview some of these players and ask them how they feel their identity is represented through these games and which allows for the most accuracy in detail, and why.
I will interview several people who take part in these types of gaming events and maybe even a group collective of these gamers. Usually an interview are would be most appropriate for this venue of film; however, I would like to attempt to show the person play the game and the character they play. This will require me to interview my subjects where they often play these games.
I hope to show our culture has cultivated an underground sub-culture built on fantasies and false identities that, is often at times, more civil and cooperative than “normal “society. How, by creating and playing these character, people live some essential and deep seeded communal urge that is not usually present in today’s everyday society.
Presented interview style and with the subjects permission shot in living quarters. This simple film will not call for much in the way of elaborate scene set ups. I will present my subjects with a series of questions and tape their reactions and comments for presentation to the viewer.