While I was looking at several of the movie idea threads here on the forum, I noticed that they were all aimed at large audiences. Which, for the time being anyway, is a bad idea.
so I began to think of what could be a good idea and this is what I came up with: why don't we make home-movie like videos of a few of the interviews we have of SCP's and use them as a promotional device.
here's an example:
(the film begins with a black screen with the following written in white ((the marked out part can be blurred out for the film)))
SCP-105
Date:██-██-█████
Document: ██████████
(the film then cuts to 105 sitting in a chair in a white room or maybe on her bed in the containment facility, the person asking her questions is not visible onscreen)
Dr. █████: Please give a brief personal introduction, including date and place of birth, and your name.
SCP-105: Okay... My name is Iris Thompson, I was born in Phoenix, Arizona on May twelfth in 1990.
Dr. █████: Good. First question, when did you become aware of your abilities?
SCP-105: I'm not sure, but I think I was either ten or eleven. I remember because I was looking at a picture of the ocean, and I noticed that the waves began moving.
Dr. █████: How did your parents respond when you told them?
SCP-105: They just said that I had an overactive imagination.
Dr. █████: When did you discover that you were able to manipulate objects through a photograph?
SCP-105: I was twelve, after my family had taken a trip to the Grand Canyon, I accidentally pushed a small rock over the edge. After that I became a photography fanatic. I took pictures everywhere, and for my thirteenth birthday, I... (Subject is interrupted by Dr. █████.)
Dr. █████: Please, only answer the questions and nothing else.
SCP-105: Sorry sir.
Dr. █████: How many photos can you focus on at one time?
SCP-105: I've gotten up to ten at once, but I'm sure I could do more eventually.
Dr. █████: When did you discover that you could—
(the film is then cut short by a blairing alarm and the stereotypical robot female voice that says)
UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS DETECTED!!
BEGIN MEMORY DUMP PROCEDURE.
(a bar will then move accross the screen imitating a loading bar(or in this case a purge bar) when it gets to the end their computer will send them to a white "error" screen that will send them there everytime they try to go there by flagging there IP or MAC address)
the last part would just be for flare and wouldnt be nessacary but it would be cool. the only flaw I can see is where would we put the video? Thats the question I was hoping you guys could help me with if you think the video is a good idea.
I've been thinking about something like this a lot lately (it's actually why I finally stopped lurking and joined, I didn't want to step on any toes and use an idea without permission).
I've got a bit of film experience, access to plenty of equipment (cameras, actors, editing software, lights, etc), and I'm killing to do a short film like this. If we can decide on a particular SCP, I can get working on some treatments and then a full script.
SCP-507 ought to be in the running, I think. Wouldn't even need anything too fancy.
Got a first draft done.
I think rubber bullets are supposed to be fired at the ground, so they bounce and hit people. If they're not, they're not as deadly as regular bullets, but they're not safe enough to justify giving them instead. Also, the Foundation seems to be the type that would consider the guards more expendable than the SCP objects.
Pretty much all of the little details like that are from the original article. It made sense to me that they wouldn't just give a guy a pistol while he wandered around, just in case, so I left it like that.
I've already got an actor for 507 lined up, but I'd like to nail the script down before I get too far along in pre-production (starting storyboards tonight). I'd like to hear some critiques on what I've got so far. I feel like it's a little light on story, but maybe that's not a bad thing. I don't know, though. Maybe I should just start a new thread so this one isn't cluttered and going off in a bunch of different directions?
Short, single-SCP centered films could be wonderful, and very easy to make with little to no budget…however, it would take a least some minor film editing to get it to "feel" right, and the acting would have to carry a real sense of realism.
As for a place to post it, i think a dump to YouTube by some scared, confused kid who "found these tapes in my dad's basement" or something would work well.
The film editing could be done quite easily with windows movie maker if we cut out the alarms, though that would botch the ending, in which case we could just put up a black screen that said "Authorization required to view this file" and end it there, or better yet display a message that says "Data Lost". then we can have a blue screen pop up and make it look like a scared kid wrote "What are the SCP?" or something like that that will make people go and look for something about the SCP on the internet and hopefully lead them here
The acting can be remedied with simple practice of the lines and practice of getting into character.
which leaves the scene, I think doing the interview in the character's quarters would be the easiest place to do it. but a completely white room would make it feel more real i think
I'd be adverse to what I personally consider to be cheap "viral movie" tricks like cryptic messages along the lines of "THE SCP IS REAL", or flashy editing. Any SCP video we shoot should have an air of professionalism about it, and do so by avoiding the flashy or the overtly strange in favour of the ordinary, and the bare necessities. For example, in lieu of a white room, we could use a simple, bog-standard interview room, with cheap table, like the kind you see on police tapes. The Foundation is well-funded, but I imagine every organization scrounges.
The son of an SCP employee discovering them by accident is a wonderful idea, Gears. I shudder to think what would become of them.
I was thinking more of a "recovered footage" video. Something on the line of blair witch or some such, mainly because that would be easiest to make, with a beginning "warning" screen somewhat like the start of Cloverfield. Maybe one or two interviews, a couple recovered videos, and a "audio only" track of something especially nasty.
They go up over a few days, posted by the scared kid, with him commenting on things from time to time. Saying his dad is really pissed because he thinks someone stole them, and he's too scared to 'fess up. Minimal mention of SCP or The Foundation in any of the clips, but enough for those who know what to look for…
Then, after a week or two, the whole things goes down, pulled down to "security violations" or some such.
I am reminded very much of the R. Tam sessions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKYFNsnO-tc
So I'm new, but I've been lurking for a while. Read this post and rather liked it. Unfortunately nothing has been done quite as well as the proposed ideas here. So I started a youtube account with the express purpose of building a believable background for an account. Rather than getting the videos from a box in the basement I get the kid to buy them in an estate sale (ooh, dead peoples things!) The few videos I've made as pure background are currently private, i'll only release them once a few people have said they're satisfied and it doesn't look cheesy. If anyones interested I can provide more info.
that was what I was thinking, like it's meant to be part of a record but has been separated from the rest of the files
I think we should start with one interview and see what happens and a few days later we can post another interview and then another after that.
I think it would be interesting if the sound file was of 682's interview
maybe we could get the youtube people to pull it down and delete the account to make it look more authentic. we could either tell them that its not real or we could pretend that we are a real organization and what they have is sensitive information that needs to be removed
I think it's great idea, but don't call them SCP. That'd be too easy to just google the name.
Unless the site admin wants to make a robots.txt so google can't search here…that'd be cool.
Dude. Promoting the site is the point. Making it harder to google it would be retarded.
Well, different people have different ideas of how best to use the site. Some would prefer to have it fairly obscure, making it more difficult for people to find, and then for those who do find it to get be able to tell, for certain, that the site is fake. They want to have it found virally, to increase the "what the fuck?" factor, and turn it into a full alternate reality game.
I don't think it would work all that well, personally, for a variety of reasons. But there are a lot of people giving the idea some thought.
http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/routine-psychological-evaluations-by-dr-glass
This would be great to make a video of. Just a suggestion.
Argh, I forget the number, but what was that SCP that randomly teleported into alternate universes?
Frankly, I would love to see a first person account of teleporting into the dark universe. Then you hear fumbling, and a torchlight suddenly illuminates the room.
"Back so soon?"
Not that I know anything about filmmaking, but that should actually be (comparatively) easy to rig up, too - I'm imagining something about three to five minutes, first-person camera from inside the cell. Starting with waking up from a nap at a desk or something similar. Most of the clip would be just be scene-setting; about a minute from the end of the clip, while the camera is facing the side of the cell with no door, the lights go out and everything goes black. (Cut here; all the furniture is carried out with some or no replacement in the pitch black, the camera moves back as close as possible where it had been before, the second actor takes his position, roll tape again.) Camera panics, there's some noise and heavy breathing, and the flashlight turns on, illuminating what's clearly the same room but entirely empty of furniture. As the camera person calms down and starts breathing more slowly, though, someone else's breathing can also be heard; both camera and flashlight pan as the camera person turns around, about a foot away from the Smiling Man's face. "Back so soon?" Cut scene.
Figuring out how to make the Smiling Man's smile wide enough would be a task.
Someone should do a video of scp 682 sound file. At the point when 682 starts mumbling, the screen starts to static up, then a [TRANSCRIPT EXPUNGED] (appears on screen) and continue the audio. Then when it ends. Reintitialize the video. Show blood on the walls, and the camera sideways on the ground. Blood on screen. The a dark scaily mass shifts onto the screen for a fraction of the second. The Video cuts.
That's extraordinarily narmy.
I have been thinking of ideas recently and I think we should experiment with soundfiles first. This would be the easiest to make and edit while being the creepiest as it leaves it to the imagination.I think we should create a mule youtube account with fake info, mule email, the works. Hell we could even do it from public WiFi so no one could trace it.
The sound file would have a black background with with classified looking white letters detailing info on it. I plan on creating a sample with just a random file. At the end of the clip it will have an abrupt ending.
I think for the sound file the best we can do is a "Transmission" of SCP-76's escapes. We can do it with multiple soldiers as they report in &6's progress out of containment as the futilely try and stop him