Posted by: ryanrepublic | March 24, 2008

Idea for online documentary

For my documentary website I am looking specifically at the online gaming community and the game in particular is Call of Duty 4. What I’m hoping to change is the perception people have of gamers. The gamers I know all have families they have normal lives and for them gaming is just a hobby. The reason I’ve chosen Call of Duty 4, is that I play COD4 with a few of my friends every Sunday night and I understand the social aspect of online gaming. So what I want to achieve in this documentary is to show gamers in a different light. What I have found out so far is that gaming gets very mixed emotions from different people. Some see gaming as a very negative hobby believing that it is just software based and therefore non-transferable at all to the real world in anyway. Others use gaming as a way to relax and in some sense socialise with others when online. I already have conducted a few interviews and the content is already looking interesting.


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  1. Hey Ryan,

    Don’t know if you saw this article in The Age today but I thought it might connect to your online doco idea. Hope it’s of some use:
    http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/ministers-fail-to-agree-on-game-rating-change/2008/03/28/1206207383592.html
    Have a nice weekend.

    Charlotte


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