Tuesday 19 March 2013

Take this lollipop

Take This Lollipop was a 2011 interactive short horror movie and also a Facebook App, written and directed by Jason Zada, which uses the  Facebook Connect application to bring viewers themselves into the film, through use of pictures and messages from their own Facebook profiles. Starring actor Bill Oberst Jr as 'The Facebook Stalker', the film acts to personalize and emphaise the dangers inherent in posting too much personal information about yourself on the World Wide Web. The information gathered from a viewer's Facebook profile by the film's app is used once, and then deleted. Thank god!

It has to be said that in 2011, this app was very popular with it having over a million likes on Facebook, however I feel the horror wasn't that horrific for myself, personally. The app had many fans and won many awards( March 2012, Won three awards at SXSW: Overall 'Best in Show', first place in category 'Experimental', and first place in category 'Motion Graphics', April 2012, Won D&AD Award for 'Digital Advertising/Web Films' May 2012, Won Daytime Emmy Award for 'New Approaches - Daytime Entertainment)




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