The movie "Late Shift" where the world's first spectators can decide where the story is going

When watching a movie, there are things that I think to the characters such as "You should escape!" Or "Do not walk around alone!" The world's first audience participation type movie that reflects such viewer's opinion in the story is "Late Shift"is.

Late Shift, the world's first interactive cinema movie, reviewed | Ars Technica UK
http://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2016/12/late-shift-interactive-movie-review/

The movie "Late Shift" uses the smartphone's app and the audience can decide the action of the hero. There are 180 choices for audiences to decide in the story, their importance is large and small, and ultimately seven different endings will arrive depending on what choices you choose. BritishVueIt will be made public by March 2017.

The official trailer of "Late Shift" can be seen from the following.

LATE SHIFT? Official Trailer? YOUR DECISIONS ARE YOU - YouTube


The stage is London


The main character is a male student mat.


The story starts from Mat a byte at a certain night.


A strange woman who came to Matt.



A mat that receives something like a key from her.


After the woman has gone away, he heard a noise, so he watches the surroundings ......


The story is going to suddenly from the point that the woman of the time is being threatened by a man with a handgun.



Do you obey a man with a handgun?


Or will Matt leave a female and run away?


After that, Matt is compelled to rob the robbery to the famous auction house in London. Of course it is possible to choose whether the mat participates in the robber or not participates.


Various choices, do you take risks?


Or are you going to move safely?


Do you believe in successive characters?


Or do you doubt it?


Is it love?


Is it fear?


It is "Late Shift" that all audiences choose various choices, such as,


The screening time of the movie "Late Shift" is about 90 minutes, but if you sum up all the alternatives, that time seems to be about 4 hours. When Sebastian Anthony, a writer working at Ars Technica, an international news media, saw Late Shift, the audience selection quickly decided that the ending was in a cruel ending.

When watching a movie, you first need to install Android or iOS dedicated application and connect the terminal to a special Wi-Fi network. Once the movie starts, choices will appear on the screen at the time you choose the choice.


It is revealed that the number of choices is two or three, and appearance frequency is displayed frequently every minute or every few minutes. The time to choose a choice is about 3 seconds, just tap the button displayed on the smartphone screen is OK.


The app has already been published on the App Store.

Late Shift on the App Store


Data gathered from smartphones connected to a special Wi-Fi network will be compiled with software on the computer and will branch the episode of the movie. In addition, Mr. Anthony said during the movie "I had to keep my smartphone open all the time". However, since the application screen is almost black, it seems rare that the screen is too bright. And, it seems that battery consumption is not so much, and commented that about 5% of the battery was consumed in iPhone 6 in power saving mode in about 90 minutes of the show time.