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Kirill (full-length) Director’s Cut

Dwardus — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:36:18 +0000

Certainly if you have any time (or even if you don’t!) check out the full-length Kirill here. I haven’t seen it myself yet but it’s just what the doctor ordered. A follow-up blog is definately on the cards! Watch this space…

Kirill episode 10 (final episode) “Beginning”

Dwardus — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:46:45 +0000

Don’t talk, just watch it here.

Discussions to follow!

Kirill Episode #9: DEATH

Dwardus — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:14:31 +0000

So Kirill’s made contact with Viv, we’ve discovered the dog, this troubled man’s only friend is an employee of Nomi and we’ve just found out some more shocking news. Here’s waiting for the next and final episode! I’m glad Stu’s back and blogging, but that whole disappearance thing was kinda strange.

If you’ve no idea what Kirill is or what I’m talking about, you should check out MSN UK’s viral drama here and you may want to read my earlier blog posts detailing the first few episodes here, here and here.

Stay tuned.

Kirill Latest

Dwardus — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:53:31 +0000

It was my intent to update on Kirill much more regularly, but life has conspired to get in the way! We’re now on episode 8 of 10 as far as the videos are concerned, which seem to be getting better and better. What’s more, Quantum Stu’s back! His new footage is kinda creepy (check this out below). You can clearly see the secuity guard/assassin with the night vision googles looming out of the darkness at 0:25.

Check out the latest episodes of Kirill if you haven’t already. I’m still making my mind up if I like episode 7 or 8 more. Want to get me a dog now.

Brand new Kirril: Outside

Dwardus — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:48:44 +0000

There’s a brand new Kirril episode this morning, and things are heating up for our favourite fugitive. It’s a cool episode, and you should check it out. Hopefully Viv’ll get the message and at least be on her toes. More on this later, need morning coffee and to get some work done first!

“If you can hear this, if anyone can hear this – run.”

Dwardus — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:58:51 +0000

The purty green Kirill logo

Kirill is a ten-part drama focusing on a fugitive (David Schofield of Pirates fame) in a desolate bunker who is trying to contact one Vivienne Villars, a London journalist who is in grave danger. Villars, a blogger, is in regular contact with “Quantum Stu”, another blogger who signed up to his own blog on the same day as her – the day that CERN’s LHC (Large Hadron Collider) was switched on earlier this year.

Kirill (David Schofield)

To appreciate Kirill you will need to read the two blogs (or at least scan them) as well as watching the videos, which are bite sized and good-looking:

“The episodes are about three minutes — pretty much the same as a song which we felt was about right for the medium,” says Peter Bale the executive producer of MSN UK on the forums.

Kirill drawing

The idea is to piece together the story for yourself. You’d also do well to check out the extra content. As for the blogs – which are as good as the videos as far as I’m concerned, they featured videos, audio files and CCTV footage, with regular links to interesting sources (often CERN or science related, without ever getting overly heavy for the casual reader). They also link to each other and are often in the form of responses – Viv will grudgingly respond to Stu’s put-downs and vice versa, there’s a nice bit of chemistry going on here. They also feature funny related videos and on Stu’s blog – music videos. While Quantum Stu is a little less focused on Viv’s findings at the outset – indeed he takes every opportunity to rubbish her “conspiracy theories” as he calls them, when Viv discovers footage which suggests professors connected with the company giant Nomi are being kidnapped by two black-clad assailants, Stu backs up the science part. All-in-all it’s an interesting project and it has kept me out of mischief for a few hours already. There are two videos up so far – “Tagged” and “Water” and plenty of blog posts to read through. I can hear you groaning, but it is worth investing time in this as the payback is pretty decent, especially when there hasn’t (at least to my knowledge) been anything like this before.

Viv - a fellow blogger

Things to check out:

Kirill (requires MS Silverlight – free download)

Vivienne Villars Blog

Quantum Stu’s Blog

Nomi Futures Website (Umbrella Corporation, anyone?)

don't go outside

Episodes 1 & 2 (contains spoilers!)

Here I’ve written out the things that might be important in the first two episodes. They are only three minutes long though if you need to give yourself a memory jog :p.

Episode #1 “Tagged”

This episode sees chalk numbers crossed out as we pan towards Kirill, a stubbly man counting to 100 and falling asleep. He talks about hide and seek as his computer runs a database search. Kirill shoots a water pipe which promptly bursts and he mends it. We see a board on his wall and he crosses out “Sleeping with gun in hand” among other rules he has set out for himself (see picture 3). Finally his computer’s screen flashes “match found” and Kirril’s eyes sparkle, “Gotcha!” is his response to the photo of Vivienne on his monitor.

Episode #2 “Water”

Things have got rather icy and Kirill talks about the temperature and staying alive. “Ten days is a long time depending on temperature,” he notes. I’m guessing this refers to the ten episodes/days.

I’ll probably do a follow-up Kirill post in a week or so. Stay tuned, and remember to check it out!