SciFi Wire Talks With Erik Jensen About Virtuality, His Character
23/June/2009 04:03 PM Filed in:
ArticlesSci Fi Wire talked with Erik Jensen about his character and the virtual modules in Virtuality:
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The show places its characters into a stylized and unsettling hyper-reality when they are in their VR modules. "The only thing I can compare the feeling to is like sort of being fully immersed in a really interesting video game," Jensen says. "The feeling I get when I'm watching it is sort of the same feeling I got when I was playing Myst—you remember Myst? That video game from many years ago? There's something unsettling happening, but it's happening internally with the characters. It's not an unsettling thing that's happening with the external grit and the sort of look with the piece. The camera floats as it follows people. Whereas in Battlestar, the camera sort of smashed back and forth between people, so there's this unsettling mystery feeling. I sort of guess the pitch for it would be, you know, Sunshine meets Lost." ---
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http://scifiwire.com/2009/06/what-is-the-scariest-thin.php