Long Absense, 'Tilt', and a Request

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Greetings to all!

Hopefully some of you will remember my short appearance some months ago, but if not, I guess a small reintroduction is in order!

My name’s Kris, and I live in the UK. I’m currently studying film production at uni in my final year, and hope to make a career out of it. Oh, and I love poker ofcourse!

Right, now that’s out of the way, time to get to the point of this post. As I said, this is my final year at uni – the ‘big one’ so to speak. I am currently in pre-production for a film that I have written called ‘Tilt’. As you can tell from the name, the film is about poker, combining my 2 passions of making films and the game we all know and love / hate (depending on the situation).

Brief film synopsis: The film is about a poker game being played out under the observation of an analyst, who is trying to create situations where the players go on tilt, in order to find out how 'zen' a poker player can be, and generally find out more about the 'poker mindset'.

It is currently limited to an 8min piece, although I am hoping to get this extended to around 10-12mins. The film will be mostly dominated by montages of the game being played, showing the progression of the game. I’ve always thought that poker looks beautiful on screen, so I believe the montages will look fantastic. The soundscape will be a multi-layered lattice of voice-overs that will act as the impression of the player's thoughts as the game is played. There will also be soundbites of ‘screening’ interviews that were conducted in order to investigate a good mix of players. I’m hoping that these nuggets of thought will make it easier for audience members who do not play poker to understand the interest and exhilaration of the game, and to make it look less scary (people have told me that poker looks terrifying to them).

As such, I wish to make these ‘thoughts’ as genuine as possible, and so would like to make a small request of as many members as I can. I have constructed a small questionnaire (7 questions) that I would like as many people as possible to fill out in as much detail as they can muster and send back to me. I would appreciate all the responses I can get, but if you do find the time to fill the questionnaire out, could you please avoid single word answers where possible – as much detail as possible is needed (especially on questions 2, 4 and 7).

All or parts of these questionnaires will then be voice-acted in the film.

I am hoping for a big response to this questionnaire, and to the film as a whole (I’m hoping it will reach some festivals at least). As a thank you, I will be putting in a big ‘special thanks’ to the forums in the credits, along with the individual names of people who fill out the questionnaires (should they not be averse to it – please mention in Question 1).

That's pretty much it. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to post in here or PM me. All that's left for me to say is a big THANKS to everyone who fills out the questionnaire, and to ask that people either post it back up in this thread, or PM me and I will provide the email address to mail it to, should you not want to post it for all eyes to see.

Thanks very much!

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PS. I promised this a long time ago, but a video of me playing for you guys to take a look at will be on its way!