{"id":27833,"date":"2018-01-27T21:33:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T20:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retromagazine.eu\/retro\/?p=27833"},"modified":"2018-01-27T21:33:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T20:33:11","slug":"video-level-up-documentary-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retromagazine.eu\/retro\/blog\/2018\/01\/27\/video-level-up-documentary-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Level Up Documentary (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Level Up Documentary (2011) - A story about gamers and the games they play\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/clxFA58SEas?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Technology has changed the way that people can play games, from casual gamers who play a few times a week or month on their phone, to those who play every day and make a living playing professionally. This documentary takes the audience on a journey through all the levels of gamers providing testimonials and background information from each group.<\/p>\n<p>Level Up explores the video gaming culture from the perspective of a wide range of gamers starting with casual smart phone gamers to avid, professional gamers, LAN Party organizers and video game content creators. The documentary covers a brief history of video games and their social angle, as well as the competitive aspect engendered by large-scale gaming events. This is a current and relevant topic examined through interviews and research and presented in an interesting and engaging manner.<\/p>\n<p>Producer: Jeff Colebank<br \/>\nDirector: Justin Switzer<br \/>\nDirector of Photography: Adam Walsh<br \/>\nCreative Director: Daniela Castillo<br \/>\nSoundtrack: Peter Peterson<br \/>\nIllustration: Mandy Groves<br \/>\nChief Editor: Adam Walsh<br \/>\nEditing: Daniela Castillo, Jeff Colebank, Peter Peterson, Justin Switzer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology has changed the way that people can play games, from casual gamers who play a few times a week or month on their phone, to those who play every day and make a living playing professionally. This documentary takes the audience on a journey through all the levels of gamers providing testimonials and background [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":27835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1554],"tags":[6584,6583,624],"class_list":["post-27833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dies-und-das","tag-documentary","tag-level-up","tag-video"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retromagazine.eu\/retro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retromagazine.eu\/retro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retromagazine.eu\/retro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retromagazine.eu\/retro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retromagazine.eu\/retro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.retromagazine.eu\/retro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retromagazine.eu\/retro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retromagazine.eu\/retro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retromagazine.eu\/retro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retromagazine.eu\/retro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}