Syndicate

With my third year project nearly a year away, I have decided to do something really big. One final film that will encompass everything I have learned. Something that I can hold up and say to everyone I made this and I’m damn proud of it.

You may be familiar (although I won’t hold it against you if you’re not) with the video game syndicate from 1993? Regardless of your feelings towards video games its storyline is worth a look at. Set in a completely corporate controlled dystopia you command a group of cybernetic enhanced agents and engage in violent industrial sabotage in a bid for world domination. The game recently got a reboot in which you play as one of the agents and get a first person view of what it is like to be more like a machine than a man.

That’s what I want to do; I want to capture that kind of dystopia where life has been reduced to a name and number. Where everyone lives in a polluted shattered world where only the corporations and their markets count for anything. I could also add to it the current real life concerns about government control and other political and social subject matters.

Plus I really want to go to town with the visuals on this one, push the boat out with special effects and high quality images to entertain and thrill the viewer. This will not be the first time a fan made film about a video game has been made, there are hundreds out there, some are standard films made in back gardens but some (which will hopefully include mine) are works of true art. If you find the time I suggest you look up Escape from City 17 part 1 and 2, a Half Life 2 fan made film. The visuals and effort they put into making the film is truly inspiring, I just hope I’m half as good as these lads when I reach my apex of ability.   

Although I have only thought about it and not written much of it down this is what I have so far

Sinclair is an agent of the Invicta’s Corporation; he awakes and finds himself strapped to a chair in a darkened room. His connection to the corporation’s network via his brain chip implant begins to establish himself; he has been captured, by whom he knows not. All he does know is that he has a mission to complete and he has never been known to never complete a mission. Suddenly a door opens filling the room with light, in steps a suited man smoking a cigar. He says nothing but Sinclair is already running through known face patterns in the Invicta’s data bases. His identity is unknown but Sinclair now knows he is an executive in North Eastern Hemisphere Global, bitter rivals with Invicta’s for the control of all of the European territory’s market consumers. The man takes a step closer, and introduces himself as Mr Brenan, expelling a mouthful of smoke into Sinclair’s face. He announces his intention to alter the programming imbedded in Sinclair's brain, turning him into an obedient spy and assassin within Invicta’s corp.

Well, that’s as far as I have got really, sounds interesting though, I hope I can add more to it later and turn it into a science fiction thriller.

What do you all think?