Hybrid of mobile phone messaging chat and black comedy series for television and broadband media

Vastaa Sydän kierroksella käyttäjäkyselyyn!

I believe in lunatic love.

Accidental Lovers (Sydän kierroksella) is an interactive musical TV-comedy that explores variations of a deadly love relationship between 61-year-old cabaret singer Juulia and 30 years younger pop star Roope.

Accidental Lovers introduces a new interactive format and genre for television. Viewers can affect the unfolding drama, its turns and outcomes of the plot, by sending mobile messages to the broadcast. Each message is scanned for keywords that can cause particular type of thoughts (voiceover audio clips) in the main characters. As the keyword data cumulates, the characters' relationship will start to change according to the text message chat.

The Finnish National Broadcasting Company YLE will broadcast Accidental Lovers in the end of 2006.

As a research production Accidental Lovers has three main research goals:
1. To identify and formulate an effective working rhetoric for keyword triggered dialogue where the main characters not only engage in conversation between themselves but also react meaningfully to the incoming text messages.
2. To discover the optimum organisation of media elements in order to create a satisfying narrative experience at every broadcast session.
3. To ensure a rewarding user-experience for text-message-based interaction where both individual and viewers as community will have an effect on the story.


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The production is part of the EC's New Media for New Millennium (NM2) IST practice-based research and development project running from 2004 to 2007. See the website http://www.ist-nm2.org/ for research related information and publications.

Accidental Lovers has received script-writing support from AVEK, The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture, Finland, and development funding from the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, Canada, as well as research and production funding from EC IST program and the Finnish National Broadcasting company YLE.

June 2003 Accidental Lovers won the Banff Centre New Media CyberPitch, presented by the Telefilm Canada as the courtesy of the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, at the Banff2003 television festival.


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Vastaa Sydän kierroksella käyttäjäkyselyyn!

Sydän kierroksella on vuorovaikutteinen musikaalikomedia rakkaudesta, jossa Juulia (61-vuotias kabareelaulaja) ja Roope (30-vuotias rokkitähti) kohtaavat toisensa erilaisissa rakkaussuhteiden
variaatiossa.

Katsojat voivat vaikuttaa tarinan kulkuun lähettämällä tekstiviestejä, jotka viestistä tunnistettavien avainsanojen perusteella aiheuttavat päähenkilössä jonkin tietyn ajatuksen. Tekstiviestien ja avainsanatietojen karttuessa henkilöiden kohtalo ja tarina muuttuu.

Teos on tällä hetkellä jälkituotantontovaiheessa ja esitetään loppuvuodesta 2006. Se on Crucible Studion ja YLE:n draamaosaston yhteistuotanto. Teknologiaa kehitetään NM2-projektin puitteissa.

Alkuperäisidea, käsikirjoitus ja konsepti: Leena Saarinen ja Mika Tuomola
Ohjaus: Mika Tuomola
Konseptointi ja leikkaus: Minna Nurminen



Lähetysajat:
YLE TV1 27.12 klo 22.40 Sydän kierroksella –demo
YLE TV1 27.12. klo 22.55 – 1 tarinaversio
YLE TV1 29.12. klo 22.40 – 2 tarinaversiota
YLE TV1 3.1. klo 22.40 – 3 tarinaversiota
YLE TV1 5.1. klo 23.20 – 6 tarinaversiota

Cast
Kristiina Elstelä ...Juulia Kuvaja
Lorenz Backman ...Roope Vuori
Riitta Elstelä ...Jatta & J.T.
Minna Rimpilä ...Maarit
Mia Renwall ...Laura
Remu Aaltonen ...Rokki-Rane
Jyrki Kovaleff ...Roskis-Rane
Pörhö ...Pörhö

Directed by Mika Tuomola

Script & created by Leena Saarinen & Mika Tuomola

Camera team
Juha Leskelä ...Cinematography
Mari Sinkkanen ...Camera assistant
Niina Mattus ...Camera assistant
Juha Saikkonen ...lights
Petri Setälä ...lights
Esko Viitala ...lights
Esa Pohjolainen ...lights

Film editing by Minna Nurminen

Produced by
Paavo Häikiö ...Producer/Crucible Studio
Juhani Tenhunen ...Executive Producer/Crucible Studio
Leena Tomminen ...Producer/YLE
Inari Uusimäki ...Producer/YLE
Kari Kyrönseppä ...Excecutive producer/YLE
Jarmo Eskelinen ...Executive producer/Lume
Samppa Murtomäki ...Executive producer/Lume
Ari Kivimäki ...Executive Producer/Lume

Production management
Helena Hyvärinen ...Production manager
Tiia Eskelinen ...Production assistant
Satu Jääskeläinen ...Script supervisor

Sound team
Paul Jyrälä, M.P.S.E., C.A.S. ...Sound designer
Miia Nevalainen ...Sound editor
Joonas Jyrälä ...Interactive sound designer
Simo Jantunen ...Trainee
Tiina Juntunen ...Trainee
Timo Rantalainen ...Sound recordist
Sakari Virkki ...Sound recordist

Music by
Anna-Mari Kähärä ...Composer/arrangements
Jussi Tuurna ...Composer/arrangements
Marzi Nyman ...Musician
Marko Timonen ...Musician
Pekka Lehti ...Musician
Tuure Koski ...Musician
Markku Veijonsuo ...Musician
Teemu Mattson ...Musician
Maija Vilkkumaa ...Lyricist

Costumes by
Niina Pasanen ...Costume designer
Marita Vehkaoja ...Costumer
Anna Kankaanpää ...Costumer

Makeup by
Päivi Kela ... principal makeup artist
Guy Hellström ...makeup artist
Eeva Saarinen ...makeup artist
Tarja Nylander ...makeup artist

Set by
Heikki Leikola ...Set designer
Susanna Lavonen Set decorator
Kimmo Turunen ...Set design supervisor
Kari Yläajos ...Set construction manager
Heikki Salmela ...Set construction
Timo Ojanperä ...Set construction
Esko Kares ...Set construction
Heimo Lepistö ...Set construction
Timo Löppönen ...Set construction
Rauno Arjoranta ...Set construction
Minna Kunnasluoto ...Set assistance
Tiina Vanhola ...Set assistance
Marita Pirttimaa ...Props

Other team members
Riia Mustonen ...Director's assistant & storyboard
Pontus Vepsäläinen ...Graphic designer
Heli Sorjonen ...Still photography
Robert Ahonius ...Usability researcher
Petri Kola ...Interaction consultant
Kebede Mergia ...Documentary
Toni Tolin ...Studio manager /Lume
Risto Salo ...Production Manager /YLE

Heli Loukomies ...Catering

NM2 technical team

Topias Marttila ... Technical coordinator
Juhani Kantola / Taik
Veli-Matti Koskenkorva / Taik
Peter Stollenmayer / Eurescom
Doug Williams / BT Group
Ian Kegel / BT Group
Tim Stevens / BT Group
Jon Cook / University of London Goldsmiths College
Vilmos Zsombori / University of London Goldsmiths College
Alberto Muñoz Gallego / Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo S.A
Isabel Alonso / Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo S.A
Michael Hausenblas / Joanneum Research
Martin Umgeher / Joanneum Research
Harry Fluks / TNO

Script Comments
Tove Idström
Riikka Pelo


Thank you
Maarit Kiprianoff / ravintola Milenka, Mediakeksu LumeHannu Forsback, Birgitta Rosti, Tarja Peltoniemi, Samppa Murtomäki ja Raine Heikkinen.
Daniel Lindholm
Ilmalan vesitormi/Erkki Ranta
Merihaka Oy
Jussi Topinoja
Helsingin kaupungin rakennusvirasto
Leena Viitanen


CRUCIBLE STUDIO / YLE / MEDIA CENTRE LUME

2006