SPEED
A CD-rom based interactive movie.

SLIDES (Click on image to launch slideshow in new window)

DESCRIPTION
Speed is structured as a series of associative dreams, hopes and doubts of a single man. In film sequences, stills and texts he tells his story in voice-overs and monologues. In the production the viewer is guided through the material by a jukebox device.
The main concern of SPEED was to focus on how the experience of a filmed material can change when implemented into "state-of-the-art" digital technology. How our identity in a narrative context changes when we move from a passive role as receiver, into taking an active role in shaping the narrative structure.

The image material in SPEED are based upon a 30 minutes short story, a series of personal written notes, still sequences and sounds. The moving images are created as thoughts and remembrance, scenes from a mans everyday life, reflexions inside his thoughts, fictionalized diaries; associative thematic elements that shape this man’s life.

SPEED focuses on viewer experience, the interaction with the story is based on randomness, we devised a metaphoric model which we call a "a memory machine"; the main strategy behind this was to leave choices of viewing order to the computer. A central tool for this should be a JUKEBOX, a narrative machine that creates an everchanging story based on an initial choice.
The medium we choose for the production was CD-rom, with film clips as quicktime movies, playable on both PC and MAC. We never intended to investigate the "high" end of multimedia technology with DVD and streaming media as delivery platforms. Instead, deliberately, we chose a "low" but widely spread technology.

PREMIERE
01.06.2001

PARTICIPANTS
Concept Thore Soneson & Per Linde
Story & Editing Thore Soneson
Programming Per Linde

PRODUCTION
SPEED is based on the short film MAN by Thore Soneson, premiere 1998. The interactive CD-rom was produced as a MA degree project at Malmo University, Art & Communication, 2001. Supervisor: Maureen Thomas.

WEB
http://www.soneson.net/PROJEKT/SPEED.htm