{"id":31847,"date":"2009-04-19T20:38:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T01:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=31847"},"modified":"2009-04-20T21:41:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T02:41:06","slug":"mckellen-in-interactive-video-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/04\/19\/31847-mckellen-in-interactive-video-online\/","title":{"rendered":"McKellen in Interactive Video Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/ianmckellen.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/ianmckellen.jpg\" alt=\"Ian McKellen\" title=\"Ian McKellen\" width=\"92\" height=\"135\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28479 no-lazyload\" \/><\/a>Director <strong>Martin Percy<\/strong> writes: Sir Ian McKellen has created an amazing free interactive video piece for the National Theatre. In it, he talks interactively about the opening speech of Shakespeare&#8217;s Richard III (you know, the &#8220;Now is the winter of our discontent\u2026&#8221; one). He also talk about Shakespeare in general, and asks you the viewer questions like\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you think there&#8217;s a link between Shakespeare and modern stories like Lord of the Rings &#8212; yes or no?&#8221; <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Two buttons then pop up &#8211; yes or on, and you have to answer, and see what Sir Ian&#8217;s response is to you. Sir Ian does an amazing job, of course, and even people who are not into Shakespeare find the site interesting and moving. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stagework.org.uk\/mckellen\">The UK\/EU site<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stageworkmckellen.com\">Or if you&#8217;re viewing from outside EU, try here.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This piece was already nominated for an Emmy and a BAFTA British Academy Award. It is currently nominated for a Webby &#8211; &#8220;the Oscars of the internet&#8221;. If any members of The One Ring community enjoyed Sir Ian&#8217;s piece and wanted to vote for it in the &#8220;people&#8217;s choice&#8221; section of the Webbys, here&#8217;s a web page which tells you where to go and what to do. Voting for the Webbys closes on April 30th: <a href=\"http:\/\/thedigitaldebate.com\/vote_mckellen\">http:\/\/thedigitaldebate.com\/vote_mckellen<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Martin Percy writes: Sir Ian McKellen has created an amazing free interactive video piece for the National&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[49],"tags":[742,743,730],"class_list":["post-31847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mckellen","tag-martin-percy","tag-national-theatre","tag-shakespeare"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-8hF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}