{"id":86297,"date":"2019-01-01T01:22:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T09:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/black-mirror-interactive-film-inside-the-2-year-journey-of-bandersnatch"},"modified":"2019-01-01T01:22:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T09:22:20","slug":"black-mirror-interactive-film-inside-the-2-year-journey-of-bandersnatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/black-mirror-interactive-film-inside-the-2-year-journey-of-bandersnatch","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Black Mirror\u2019 Interactive Film: Inside the 2-Year Journey of \u2018Bandersnatch\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/black-mirror-interactive-film-inside-the-2-year-journey-of-bandersnatch2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tech-savvy Black Mirror audience is a natural fit since, as Engelbrecht put it, they tend to be \u201ca little more experimental and willing to be out there.\u201d But it was the mind of Brooker and the potential for what he could create that made Netflix want to go all in. In order to fully execute Brooker\u2019s vision, Netflix created new technology, including \u201cstate tracking\u201d to remember the choices viewers make over the course of the story. That tech is what allows for the unique experience for each viewer. Choices made earlier in the episode impact scenes and storylines as the viewer goes in ways that can be subtle (like an advertisement for the cereal that was picked) or very impactful, even resulting in which endings a viewer can unlock.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Netflix released its first interactive experience for adults with \u2018Black Mirror: Bandersnatch\u2019 on Dec. 28. The teams behind the immersive film, which debuts first-of-its-kind technology, tell The Hollywood Reporter how to be an active player in Charlie Brooker\u2019s story.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/live-feed\/black-mirror-bandersnatch-netflixs-interactive-film-explained-1171486\">https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/live-feed\/black-mirror-ban...ed-1171486<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tech-savvy Black Mirror audience is a natural fit since, as Engelbrecht put it, they tend to be \u201ca little more experimental and willing to be out there.\u201d But it was the mind of Brooker and the potential for what he could create that made Netflix want to go all in. In order to fully [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}