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|image = Living Fiction.jpg | |image = Living Fiction.jpg | ||
|main character = [[ | |main character = [[Giles]] | ||
|enemy = [[Living Fiction]]/[[ | |enemy = [[Living Fiction]]/[[Nosferatu]] | ||
|featuring = [[Maxie Masters|Maxie]] | |featuring = [[Maxie Masters|Maxie]] | ||
|setting = [[London]], [[10 March]] [[2021]] | |setting = [[London]], [[10 March]] [[2021]] | ||
|publisher = BBV Productions | |publisher = BBV Productions | ||
|editor = [[James Hornby]] | |editor = [[James Hornby]] | ||
|writer = | |writer = Warren Lewis | ||
|network = | |network = | ||
|release date = | |release date = 8 June 2021 | ||
|format = 1x5 minute webcast | |format = 1x5 minute webcast | ||
|series = ''[[P.R.O.B.E. (series)|P.R.O.B.E.]]'' | |series = ''[[P.R.O.B.E. (series)|P.R.O.B.E.]]'' | ||
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'''''Living Fiction''''' was a ''[[P.R.O.B.E. (series)|P.R.O.B.E.]]'' webcast released as a download by [[BBV Productions]] on their new website in [[2021 (releases)|2021]]. It made heavy use of footage from the notorious public-domain film {{wi|Nosferatu}} to craft a {{w|metafiction|metafictional}} narrative of fiction coming to life. | '''''Living Fiction''''' was a ''[[P.R.O.B.E. (series)|P.R.O.B.E.]]'' webcast released as a download by [[BBV Productions]] on their new website in [[2021 (releases)|2021]]. It made heavy use of footage from the notorious public-domain film {{wi|Nosferatu}} to craft a {{w|metafiction|metafictional}} narrative of fiction coming to life. | ||
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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
As [[ | As [[Giles]] later records in a video diary, [[P.R.O.B.E.]] discover that during the "[[Ecto-Space]] incident", some "[[pink goo]]" leaking through from Ecto-Space infected a film reel from a private collection. Fusing with the fictional character at the centre of [[Nosferatu (film)|the film]], a "[[Orlok (Living Fiction)|clichéd vampire archetype]]", the extradimensional entity becomes able to project its [[life force]], becoming real and physical as a piece of what Giles and [[Maxie Masters|Maxie]] decide to term [[Living Fiction]]. | ||
After being responsible for numerous deaths, the "haunted" film reel is seized by local authorities and forwarded to P.R.O.B.E. for analysis. Giles has a confrontation with the fictional vampire in a controlled setting, with the entity remaining on the other side of a sheet of reinforced glass protecting Giles from physical attacks — but he remains haunted by the image of the being, and imagery from the film at large, in his nightmares in the following night. Though the reel appears indestructible, they eventually decide to try and expose it to sunlight, a well-known weakness both of [[vampire]]s and of old film reels. This succeeds, with the monster losing Orlok's appearance to appear as an insectoid entity, before vanishing altogether. | After being responsible for numerous deaths, the "haunted" film reel is seized by local authorities and forwarded to P.R.O.B.E. for analysis. Giles has a confrontation with the fictional vampire in a controlled setting, with the entity remaining on the other side of a sheet of reinforced glass protecting Giles from physical attacks — but he remains haunted by the image of the being, and imagery from the film at large, in his nightmares in the following night. Though the reel appears indestructible, they eventually decide to try and expose it to sunlight, a well-known weakness both of [[vampire]]s and of old film reels. This succeeds, with the monster losing Orlok's appearance to appear as an insectoid entity, before vanishing altogether. | ||
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== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
* [[ | * [[Giles]] | ||
* | * "[[Orlok (Living Fiction)|Count Orlok]]"/[[Living Fiction|The Living Fiction]] - [[Max Schreck]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Ellen Hutter]] - [[Greta Schröder]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Thomas Hutter]] - [[Gustav von Wangenheim]] | ||
* | * [[Sailor (Living Fiction)|Unnamed sailor]] - [[Wolfgang Heinz]] | ||
=== Characters === | === Characters === | ||
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== Crew == | == Crew == | ||
* [[Writer|Written by]] - [[ | * [[Writer|Written by]] - [[Warren Lewis]] | ||
* [[Composer|PROBE theme by]] - [[Mark Ayres]] | * [[Composer|PROBE theme by]] - [[Mark Ayres]] | ||
* [[Script editor]] - [[ | * [[Script editor]] - [[James Hornby]] | ||
* [[Editor|Editing]] and post-production - [[Callum Brown]], [[Bill Baggs]] | * [[Editor|Editing]] and post-production - [[Callum Brown]], [[Bill Baggs]] | ||
* Special thanks to - [[ | * Special thanks to - [[F.W. Murnau]], [[Max Schreck]] & [[James Wylder]] | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* [[ | * [[Giles]] notes that it's lucky the [[Living Fiction]] imprinted on a relatively easily-defeated movie monster like [[Orlok (Living Fiction)|the vampire]], as opposed to some gigantic ''[[kaiju]]''. | ||
== Story notes == | == Story notes == | ||
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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* The film reel became tinted by the "pink goo" following the "[[Ecto-Space]] incident". | * The film reel became tinted by the "pink goo" following the "[[Ecto-Space]] incident", i.e. the events of [[HOMEVID]]: {{cs|Goo! (home video)}}. | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
{{BBVProductions|P-R-O-B-E-Living-Fiction-DOWNLOAD-p341728609}} | |||
{{PROBE}} | {{PROBE}} | ||
[[Category:P.R.O.B.E. home videos]] | [[Category:P.R.O.B.E. home videos]] | ||
[[Category:2021 home videos]] | [[Category:2021 home videos]] | ||
Latest revision as of 14:35, 4 July 2024
Living Fiction was a P.R.O.B.E. webcast released as a download by BBV Productions on their new website in 2021. It made heavy use of footage from the notorious public-domain film Nosferatu to craft a metafictional narrative of fiction coming to life.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
A mysterious film-reel is analysed by PROBE, proving to be very complex & deadly.
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
As Giles later records in a video diary, P.R.O.B.E. discover that during the "Ecto-Space incident", some "pink goo" leaking through from Ecto-Space infected a film reel from a private collection. Fusing with the fictional character at the centre of the film, a "clichéd vampire archetype", the extradimensional entity becomes able to project its life force, becoming real and physical as a piece of what Giles and Maxie decide to term Living Fiction.
After being responsible for numerous deaths, the "haunted" film reel is seized by local authorities and forwarded to P.R.O.B.E. for analysis. Giles has a confrontation with the fictional vampire in a controlled setting, with the entity remaining on the other side of a sheet of reinforced glass protecting Giles from physical attacks — but he remains haunted by the image of the being, and imagery from the film at large, in his nightmares in the following night. Though the reel appears indestructible, they eventually decide to try and expose it to sunlight, a well-known weakness both of vampires and of old film reels. This succeeds, with the monster losing Orlok's appearance to appear as an insectoid entity, before vanishing altogether.
Giles and Maxie then dispose of the once-again mundane film reel, just to be sure, and Giles is left to speculate as to what horrors might have been unleashed if the pink slime had fused with a movie about some gigantic monster instead of the relatively manageable vampire.
Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Giles
- "Count Orlok"/The Living Fiction - Max Schreck
- Ellen Hutter - Greta Schröder
- Thomas Hutter - Gustav von Wangenheim
- Unnamed sailor - Wolfgang Heinz
Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Written by - Warren Lewis
- PROBE theme by - Mark Ayres
- Script editor - James Hornby
- Editing and post-production - Callum Brown, Bill Baggs
- Special thanks to - F.W. Murnau, Max Schreck & James Wylder
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Giles notes that it's lucky the Living Fiction imprinted on a relatively easily-defeated movie monster like the vampire, as opposed to some gigantic kaiju.
Story notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- In addition to Nosferatu, a few frames from the 1965 film Gamera, the Giant Monster are used in the short to illustrate Giles's wry observation about how lucky they were that the Living Fiction patterned itself after Nosferatu instead of a kaiju film.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The film reel became tinted by the "pink goo" following the "Ecto-Space incident", i.e. the events of HOMEVID: Goo! [+]Loading...["Goo! (home video)"].
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official Living Fiction page at bbvproductions.co.uk
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