Worlds Will Shatter - The Unfold trailer
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I’m proud to release the first open source film trailer created for A Swarm of Angels. World’s Will Shatter sets the scene for The Unfold, a contemporary sci-fi thriller being made in a revolutionary fashion; by a global community of members participating in its creation, and contributing their unique talents and skills.

Driven by a core collaboration between the animation skills of Mayec Rancel, and the soundtrack smarts of Santiago Abadia, the trailer is at the forefront of new creative processes empowered through the Internet of crowdsourcing, and peer production. Finished with title design by the internationally recognised graphic talents of Matt Pyke of Universal Everything collaborating with Maxim Zhestkov, it is a stunning glimpse into a world being created by a global membership fueling a pioneering people-powered film studio.

Rancel has evoked a powerful unfolding world created in 3D from 2D images created by Japanese photographer Palla. Through community feedback and discussion at the forums of aswarmofangels.com the initial ideas developed into a spiralling, shearing cityscape synchronised with an otherworldly soundtrack developed by Abadia. The online collaboration encompassed a team of participants from Spain, Belgium, the North and South of England, Japan, as well as Russia (not including members who participated in votes and posts via the forums).

The trailer and all accompanying source files are released under a Creative Commons CC-NC-SA-3.0 license, allowing full non-commercial remixing and sharing (embed codes for Youtube, blip.tv & hi-def Vimeo). Join the Swarm to help make the film and get further details for the open source package (register here, full member details here).

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Voting has closed on our last Ravages community decisions (a final extension still remains to upload your photo to be in The Ravages propaganda trailer - as in the image, left). Thanks to all those who voted (results were above 2% participation, so well over the UGC average of 1%), helping to directly shape the script, and to those who posted on the forums with feedback and suggestions to help formulate the actual voting decisions.

In the vote for a tipping point in world collapse that sets the scene for The Ravages, members voted clearly for the most plausible reasons. Looks like our film community is tired of farfetched blockbuster plots.

Eco-system collapse affecting humanity, and a scientific mishap (such as the Cern supercollider activation) clearly led the pack. But environmental issues are clearly on our minds as eco-system collapse led by a nearly 20% margin.

Thanks also for voting for the name of the isolationist Luddite spinter group which begins to dominate the fragmented political landscape of post-Ravages Britain. Real Life Revivalists inched into the lead, and is a fitting name for our blood and pixel clash between the Real and Virtual.

This sets a course for The Ravages as a more personal, environmental contemporary sci-fi along the lines of Code 46, and Children of Men, crossed with Serial Experiments Lain.

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It might not quite be the apocalypse, but The Ravages is a dark, low-tech, isolationist near future. We’d like members to vote on some key elements of it, including:

• What is the climatic (tipping point) event for world collapse?
• Decide the name of the isolationist Luddite spinter group?

Zeno has commenced tests for the propaganda trailer for The Ravages, and time still remains to upload your photo to be part of this trailer whether an old or a new member (thanks to those who’ve done so, so far).

Photo credit: Apocalypse II / Rogiro

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