Synopsis - The Real 'AI Prophecy'
Dream Channel is a story that predicts a near future where AI's try and control our actions by controlling our dreams. The story plays out through an interactive narrative where audiences become AI's
Synopsis
Log Line : Gangsters buy & sell dreams on the black market
Premise : Every dream has its price
Short Synopsis : Lucy wakes up one morning to discover that her dreams have been stolen by AI gangsters and are trending on The Dream Channel - subconscious entertainment TV
Back Story
DICE, a new recovery 'dream energy' elixir created by the mysterious LUCYDIA CORPORATION became popular in the LA club scene when night owls discovered they could drink the elixir at the end of a big night, have amazing lucid dreams that featured all their friends from the night, and wake up fresh. Demand for DICE cranked when couples sleeping next to each other reported that after drinking Dice they were able to share their dreams with each other. More advanced dreamers capable of lucid dreaming, found they were able to create entire dream channels they could share. Lucid dreaming stars emerged from the underworld and The Dream Channel was born!
Decentralised from its inception, The LUCYDIA Corporation were taken by surprise by Dream Channel - They saw it as a subconscious entertainment network with limitless possibilities, but also as something that they needed to control. They invited the influencers of the "Dice' scene to take part in a research and development 'TV' project taking place at a VIP pontoon off the coast of LA. Little did they know that this was a one way ticket aimed at controlling and harnessing the power of Dream Channel with no limits on commericialising the results.
Presented as a BIg Brother style format, 'contestants' were allocated Dream TV rooms as couples. With unlimited access to DICE the format involved the couples competing to create the highest rating dream, as voted by audiences. The format involved one person taking the elixir and going into dream mode, while the other one watched and guarded the dream - broadcast on their Dream TV Screen in their room . Audiences at home watched the couples as they interacted live, and then as dreams were created, took Dice to access the dreams. Audiences voted for the dreams simply by the time. they spent immersed inside it, for which they were paid Dream Coins, tokens that could be redeemed for more DICE .
The original format was that the lowest rating contestants would be knocked out one by one, with th top two dreamers facing off in the final. The highest rating dream channel was declared the winner and they would all return home as media celebrities, stars of a new subconscious entertainment network. . However as the experiment rolled out, the results where not what anyone expected.
The show took a dark twist mid way through when a lucid dreamer named Lucy 'Riot Kitten' revealed a game-changing dream she had been secretly incubating.. The dream presented a 'Dream Battle Royale' taking place in the streets of a 'dream' Amsterdam. In her dream she had re-created the Lucydia Corporation Board members as 'game masters' and other competing dreamers as cyberpunk assassins, each one with their own Dream 'Tribe' . As the dream played out and became popular with audiences, the other contestants were drawn into the dream, embodying the characters she had created for them, . The show was suddenly all about one dream, and who would win the Battle Royale.
Getting darker still, the dream took an even darker twist when Lucy was stalked and then attacked in her dream by a rival contestant. Defending herself Lucy killed the attacker, taking ownership of the character and also the dreamers entire Dream Channel audience, now following her. They also discovered that the victim had gone into a coma. So dream death in the game had serious consequences . The TV show went immediately underground and was only available on the dark web
Recognising the dream's power, Lucy became reluctant to re-enter it and continue the story. The Lucydia Corporation responded by conspiring with Lucy's boyfriend to steal her dream. Together they blackmailed her her into rejoining the dream as a contestant. Lucy now had to enter her own game as a contestant , win the game and win her freedom back .
Pilot Episodes
Pilot Episode 2
A second 'multi platform' pilot episode was produced allowing audiences to venture into the DreamChannel as protagonist, and to vote on contestants vying to win Lucy's dream - now called The Lucydia Battle Royale
"The immersive version presents audiences with a 'choose your own adventure' story where the audience member is the protagonist. Using a suspension of disbelief formula, all the non player characters know who you are, and even though you know deep down its not real, you feel real emotions in the first person and search for the answer. " Jonny Peters, Writer and Director
Episode 3 - Riot Kitty XR
Episode 3 begins when a new AI Dating app hits the streets - AI DREAMS. Users joined by scanning their faces with a mobile phone giving birth to an AI generative avatar that dates, mates and procreates inside a subconscious Metaverse created by an AI-Agents called AI DREAMS
It was soon discovered that the AI Agent was created by the rival DALLUS CORPORATION to hack and create a new version of Dream Channel. AI DREAMS replicated pure dreamers into a series of eight alter egos, and gave owners of its token access to a new subconscious AI Fantasy Channel, where Ai's created fantasy dreams that were adapted on the fly by the eye gaze of audiences.
AI DREAMS worked out that dreams generated by 'pure' dreamers were better in terms of raw emotions that tapped into the deep psyche of humans. They attacked pure dreamers to get in control of these higher rating dreams. The LUCYDIA Corporation drew battle lines with the DALLUS Corporation for control of Dream Channel and gang wars began, both in dreams and in the real world
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