H.S.C. Mercurius
Media Ingredients Television series
As inspiration
Social media
Facebook group HSC Mercurius News updates Live chat sessions Event invitations Fake character accounts
Roleplaying
Live interaction
Student parties
Online gaming
Actors in character present Treasure hunts
Inspired by BNN’s TV series Feuten about a student corps, Spektor Storytelling made a group account on Facebook to invite 'people into a 'fake' corps called H.S.C. Mercurius. This student corps would pretend that the show Feuten was actually a reality show about their group, rather than the show being purely fiction. They organized parties and member gatherings, and uploaded pictures of members on Facebook. At these events, which were ‘parties’ organized by the student corps, stories developed as the audience interacted and these stories were uploaded to Facebook in different media forms. They even reached the newspaper and radio because of an unethical hazing at a party. What’s remarkable about this is the vagueness of the boundaries between fiction and reality: Facebook accounts are almost theatrical.
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