Tuesday, August 19th, 2008...8:35 pm - Gary Hayes
FaceSpooks - Your the star, be IN the movie
A hat tip to Dan Taylor over at BBC for pointing out this lovely little viral that allows you the passive, sit-on-the-couch-and-munch-crisps viewer (well fiddle with laptop) to be the star of Spooks. FaceSpook is a personalized video tool where your face is mapped onto a character in an action scene - and all via the web where the processing took around 1 minute. Here is my first attempt at sneaking into the top secret facility as agent ‘Gary Haye’ (yes limited to 9 characters I found out too late), a leading part of this mini story vignette.
Seems all major films and TV landmarks shows need their viral (above) but also an ARG to surround the show and extend the narrative, the story universe/world/environment. Spook’s ARG is Liberty News, yet another ’set-in-the-future yarn - go here and check out 2013 now.
Back to the present, below some more stills from the above video which will expire in 3 months - hmmm very Mission Impossible 
First my original face image and then some shots of the ‘very personalized’ video - now imagine this working for a 2 hour feature film at HiDef - bring it on baby !
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