WE ARE CHAPTERPLAY

It’s 11.45pm on Sunday November 1st, and I’m sitting in the dark by a quiet log fire in my father in law’s rambling old country house, bluetoothing a video about ghosts from my phone to my laptop.

My diary today says that I am supposed to write the first blog post here, and that it’s to be called WE ARE CHAPTERPLAY.

I think the idea is that I tell you about who we are, why we’ve been brought into existence and what we’re doing with interactive filmmaking, transmedia storytelling and collaborative art. But it seems to me now that doing this would ruin all the fun of figuring it out.

So instead I’ll start posting new pieces of the answer here every day – I wanted to start on November 1st, before the site is even launched, because today is the first day of NaBloPoMo, blog posting month, the collaborative challenge to post something every day in November.

And anyway, the only people reading this right now – when the site hasn’t even launched – are you few who have been nosey enough to look up the chapterplay.tv URL from the email addresses we’ve quietly started to use – and been curious enough to subscribe. In other words: players

You’ll find the video I’m about to edit at my mobile videoblog, twittervlog.tv. It’s the second entry in a month long game of videoblogging consequences I’ve devised as part of NaVloPoMo (the vlogging equivalent). Each day in November, a different person will post a 90 second video inspired by the previous day’s entry.

And it’s also vaguely hinting towards another little game – a ghost story – that we have planned for the long winter nights to come. When ghost stories are supposed to be told. In the dark, by log fires, in rambling old country houses.