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Adventures in Text and Filmmaking: Making GET LAMP
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- Jason Scott, a computer historian and director of "BBS: The Documentary" (2005), discusses the unique issues of his newest film, GET LAMP, which covers the story of the text adventure genre, which at the beginning of the computer game industry dominated the sales charts and spawned the first rock stars of game design.
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- What are Text Adventures?
- Why is there a documentary to be made about Text Adventures?
- What were the hardest challenges in filming this subject?
- How does a computer historian approach documentary filmmaking?
- What can the present game industry learn from the past game industry?
- Why are text adventures not as popular as they once were?
- What was it like trying to film in a cave on park land?
- Why did it take a year to get permission to film in the cave?
- Is anyone still making text adventures?
- What is it like to be make a documentary in the modern age?
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- Beginner
- Category:
- Digital Filmmaking, Directing, Documentary, Production
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- Panel
- Event:
- Film 2010
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