Week 5 // Story #10 — Story analysis


10. The Wildcard (this one’s free)

This one’s up to you!

This one time, late at night, up on level E...

The dance party/ping pong tournament was getting way out of hand and the 100 person strong crowd were cutting shapes so hard that the building started to shake so violently that there was a power cut and all the automatic windows and doors closed and locked everyone inside. Suddenly…

Due to the violent shake created by all those ping pong masters, they began to think about what they just did, well, because they were trapped inside and had run out of pizza, what else is there to do? This caused them to develop their methods of pingpong. They thought of a new version of ping pong called…

Ping Pong Parkour! The multiplayer, free-running game where you can ricochet the ball on any surface back to the other player. In this case, it was indoor parkour.

This new invention had to be shared. So, everyone there whipped out their iphone’s cause let's be honest iphone’s are the best. From there, it led them to make a facebook club which MAWSA quickly funded after seeing it had one hundred like’s.

It was now ready for a bigger….

better level of competition!! We all decide to settle this through 1 last friendly game of PPP (Ping Pong Parkour). Just as we were ready, the lights started to flicker on and off.. the annoying automatic windows fling wide open and gusts of wind are howling in the background.

Unable to hold strong onto my manhood I sprint up the stairs for the door.. After the first few steps I began to regret the amount of $5 Beef and Onion pizza's I’ve been consuming for the past couple weeks.. The doors are locked.. But wait.. I can hear something.. Its getting closer.. It almost sounds like a ping pong ball bounce...


This week I chose to work on story #10.

Team:
– Harry Boyd
– Isaac Laughton
– Sid Bardiya
– Caitlin MacEwan
– Nathan Meeks

After reading the story we decided to pull out these parts of the story to work with:

– The fact that it's a ping pong tournament and dance party
– It's late at night and there's a power cut (darkness)
– The lights flicker on and off at some point
– The ping pong ball is ricocheting off lots of different surfaces
– The dramatic and ominous ending with the bouncing ping pong ball

We cam up with the idea of using a dark space and creating a sort of ping pong soundscape which will be bouncing off of different walls. A ping pong game will be recorded and the different sounds will be used to make a song. This reflects the dance party element as well as the ping pong tournament. 

Type will also be projected onto the walls to reinforce the different ping pong sounds, the back and forward of a game and to bring in the dance party/flickering light dynamic. Ideally, the type will be projected in a way so that you can't take it all in at once to create a real sort of immersive experience.