Turning Points is an interactive short film that hybrids cinema with gaming elements. It uses a combination of high-class video production equipment and interactive platforms. It is accessed on a web platform designed and coded by our team. The interface offers several bonus materials to learn more about the project as well as deactivate the interactivity. Thanks to technology and by means of selective options, the film provides the audience with the power to decide, with a real impact, the story’s outcome. It was decided early on in the screenwriting process to bring to the forefront a metaphor of our own existence; every choice we make matters. Unity3D was used to combine numerous graphics and 360° images that appear during the moment of the audience’s decisions. The power given to the viewer is a revolutionary way to make them part of the screenwriting team.
Thiemo Kastel; Uri Hosta; Aneta Sladkova; Emily Hills; Jennifer Becker; Eva-Maria Schiemer; Aischa Engel: Schiemer; Der Artikel zeigt die Entstehung des interaktiven Kurzfilms „Turning Points“, der Kino- und Gaming-Elemente miteinander verbindet.