Tuesday, March 26, 2013

The Keepers (Week04)


Theme: My idea was born from a sociological concept I heard a few years ago: Society regulates itself not because it wants to, but because it feels watched. This means that a person does not steal not because he thinks it is wrong to steal, but because he knows that if he does the community will judge him. But he could steal and not let anyone knows about it; however, in the society we have built we have created the idea that we are always being watched. That’s why there are cameras everywhere that are reminding us that someone is watching us (even when those cameras are not working).

The story: it is based on a circular city, where all the windows are looking towards the inside of the city. There are no windows looking to the outside. There is a tower in the middle of the city which is higher than every other building. This tower does not have stairs or doors; it is just a big cylindrical column. At the top of the tower there are two beings, one is blue and the other one is red. Everything else is black and white.

These characters are the keepers of the city and they play with the lives of the citizens that never look up. However, one day, Blue and Red are playing dumb at the top of the tower and a cup of tea feels and almost hits a citizen. Then, this new character starts noticing the two weird beings, so they decide to play “who kills the guy first”. Every time they try to kill him, he finds a way to trick them and save his life. The keepers will play with dice to see who the next to try to take his life is.  

That’s how the story is going right now. I will make another post to talk more about the characters soon.

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