Loathe at First Sight by Suzanne Park

Author:Suzanne Park [Park, Suzanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780062990693
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2020-08-17T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

My friend Nick Cabot was the first person I called to help with the game trailer. He had just moved back to Seattle after working at an ad agency in London for two years and had some time to take on this freelance video project. Hooray!

Ziiiiiiip. Nick talked to me while opening boxes with an X-Acto knife. “Mel, darling, the only games you and I REALLY enjoy playing are those junky time wasters on our phones.” Ziiiiiiip. “Are you still playing Candy Casino? And that ridiculous one where you fling rubbish at the British aristocracy?” Nick had been my boss and mentor at my previous job, and he had started a new ad agency in the SoDo district. They had a few local clients, but their main source of revenue came from creating trailers for independent films.

“No, I’m not addicted to those anymore, thank you very much. Anyway, I really think your video experience making gorgeous film trailers will be perfect for this assignment.” His design aesthetic and promotional sensibilities would work well for this game trailer. I proceeded to tell him about Ultimate Apocalypse.

He laughed before I could finish. “I love how ridiculous the premise is. And it sounds so fun. Okay, so the goal is to create buzz around the game? Well, I know we can do that. I can do the storyboards and trailer rough cuts and edits, but can you help with writing copy? We’re a little short-staffed in that area. I also need to know what high-res game images and video assets you have available.” We spent another thirty minutes talking about budgets and the three-week turnaround. I also mentioned he would have real-life male strippers to use for green screen filming at his disposal.

“It’s a tight timeline, I’m not gonna lie. But I’m excited! I’ve never been briefed on such an absurd project in my entire life,” Nick said, laughing so hard he actually choked.

With Nick working on the game trailer, and Asher and Kat putting together the game demos, things were back on track. We had three weeks until the trade show, so there was no room for error. Somehow, we’d managed to hit every production milestone despite the addition of GameCon deliverables to our demanding schedule.

Asher came into the office later than usual, with two coffees and two bagels in hand. Was he being nice for once? Nah, turns out they were both for him. He alternated bites between the two bagels (“Oh my god, Melody, the new bagel shop near my house just opened this morning and the bagels are perfect. So chewy and soft. You should go there sometime”) and drinking the two coffees with lots of slurping bravado. The last few days I had brought in doughnuts, pastries, and muffins from the bakery around the corner, which had a LINE every morning, and fed all the producers, developers, and artists working on my project. And yet Asher couldn’t even think to get me a stupid bagel. Or add a third coffee to his greedy order.

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