FMP ideas and research, and storyboard evaluation

This is the Planet Games website. The website includes static game adverts, contact information, store locations, but excluded from this is any form of video advertising because they are a small chain based in Somerset that don't have a big enough budget or mainstream audience.

These three adverts merge reality with videogames. This is the main concept of my final project.

This sprite is the inspiration for the platform scene.

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This advert is different to the rest because it shows the evolution of games which I hope to include in my advert for Planet Games

My idea would be a short film where the gamer transitions into the game and jumps from one game to another. This is advertising Planet Games. The videos above relate to my idea because real life merges with the game world. The opening shot would be a gamer sitting down to play a console but then the character gets teleported into the game. I did multiple storyboards because initially I didn't know if Planet Games would want to work with me or not and I had a time limit. So in the first scene I was originally going to have a game character's head superimposed over my head as this merged reality with games and the idea behind it was that he belongs in the game. I scrapped this idea because Planet Games got in touch and the focus of the video changed towards Planet Games rather than a short film.

Below is the original ending for my short film if Planet Games didn't get back to me. The idea behind this one is that the character teleports out of the game and walks away and game characters jump out of the screen and follow him without him knowing. This ending was inspired by Christopher Nolan's Inception because it is an ambiguous ending so the viewer is not sure if he's out of the game or in another level.

Below is the ending that involves Planet Games. The idea is the game character gets out of the game and the coins that he's been collecting throughout the game he spends in Planet Games and gets a big bag full of great value games that implies the message that Planet Games is good value for money. The idea behind the digital money is if you trade in games you get even better value, but this didn't come across in the final product that well.

Below is similar to the idea that I want for my first-person shooter scene.