30 January 2011

Game Show - Convergence.

The game show our group came up with is called Crack Canoes. The aim of this game show is to complete an assault course in a canoe that you have constructed at the start of the game show during the first round. There will be a range of obstacles and challenged, including constructing the canoe out of limited resources (much like scrap heap challenge) and getting past the 'duck of death'. Contestants will also have questions to answer as they complete the tasks.

The game show will be filmed in a large amount of water (like 'Total Wipeout'). The show will be shown live so home audiences can interact with the game as can a live 'studio' audience. There will be the opportunity to call in and pay fees to add more challenges to contestants. E.g. You pay and amount for 10 paint balls and you get to choose who you fire them at by using your arrow keys on your home computer.  It will be shown on TV, as well as online. 

The game show would be distributed in two main different ways, online on it's own website and if it is popular online then we would hope to distribute it on a TV channel. There will be online advertising on popular websites such as Facebook, Twitter & You-Tube. This would then hopefully draw in an audience for the website which in turn would gain the show popularity. Hopefully we could get advertisements on TV and radio stations also, possibly even in magazines.

The main technology we would use would be the internet as it is making our game show more diverse  as it allows a great amount of audience interaction. It would be streamed on TV for audiences who just want to sit back and enjoy the show.