CREATING EXPERIENCES

WHAT IS WATCHDOG? ARG EXPERIENCE

Creating Experiences was definitely the most rewarding and difficult module of the entire year. I was fortunate enough to work with an amazing crew, and our final Alternate Reality Game was a complete success. No matter what obstacles hit this crew, we fought through it to get to an amazing result!

In the beginning, myself, Nikki Chadwick, Lisa Ryan, Bianca Benussi and Danielle Payne went forward with creating a story world around a previous idea of mine. The world however was no strong, and our first pitch crumbled. But, we built a newer, better idea which became WHAT IS WATCHDOG? The ARG. Luke Dampney Williams and William Wong also joined our team. I was director of Watchdog. Together we formed an amazing crew which worked efficiently (mostly) and quickly. Any problem that came up, and there were A LOT, we solved. When it came to the final ARG, everything ran smoothly, and then we had about 24 hrs to create a presentation to pitch our idea. It was on. Until I got a text at 3am from Lisa saying her computer had crashed and she had lost the Watchdog trailer.

Myself and Bianca got to AFTRS by 8am to assist Lisa and create the final power point presentation. We finished with half an hour to spare, and when we did the presentation, it was dynamite.

Very very rarely do you get to work with a crew of people who really click, have a great understanding of what needs to be done and how to collaborate with others in the group. The Watchdog team was this, and I am so grateful I had the chance to work with such talented people, which will hopefully lead me to work with them again!