Video Game High School

Video Game High School

Video Game High School

Logo Also known as Genre Format Created by VGHS Action comedy, drama, science fiction web series Matthew Arnold Freddie Wong Will Campos Brian Firenzi Matthew Arnold Will Campos Brian Firenzi Josh Blaylock Jimmy Wong Johanna Braddy Ellary Porterfield Zachary Levi Brian Firenzi Harley Morenstein Justine Ezarik

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Starring

Country of origin

United States

Original language(s) English No. of episodes Editor(s) 9 (List of episodes) Desmond Dolly Broadcast Original channel Original airing FreddieW May11,2012 External links Video Game High School Production website [2] [1]

Video Game High School is an action comedy Internet web series by Rocket Jump Studios. It was written by Matthew Arnold, Will Campos and Brian Firenzi and directed by Matthew Arnold, Brandon Laatsch and Freddie Wong. The series stars Josh Blaylock as protagonist Brian D, Jimmy Wong as Ted Wong, Ellary Porterfield as Ki Swan, Johanna Braddy as Jenny Matrix, and Brian Firenzi as The Law. Rocket Jump Studios describes it as "a show

Video Game High School about best friends, first loves, and finding that perfect head shot."[3]

Premise
The series is set in the near future where video gaming elevates its best players to stardom by its position as the world's most popular competitive sport.[] One such celebrity gamer is 'The Law', a master first-person shooter (FPS) player. His fame is so great that a news channel invites him to play a match live on national television; owing to the random selection of the serverand thus the playerson, and with, which to play, he effortlessly kills his opponents. Growing bored, he tries even more risky ways of killing, and all goes well until a lucky shot from Brian, an ordinary high school student, kills him. This fortunate shot earns Brian international fame as the "One Shot Wonder" and gains him a place at the 'Video Game High School' (VGHS), an elite academy for the world's top gamers. Unfortunately, 'The Law', who now bears a grudge against Brian, also attends VGHS; the Law is determined to humiliate Brian and force him out of the school.

Cast
Josh Blaylock as Brian Doheny (commonly referred to as BrianD), an average and wimpy high school student who gets to enroll in VGHS after killing 'The Law' in an FPS. Jimmy Wong as Ted Wong, Brian's tag-along and roommate. He is the son of Freddie Wong and likes drift racing, although his father wants him to be a rhythm gaming expert like himself. Johanna Braddy as Jenny Matrix, a sophomore who is trying to get onto the Varsity team. She is Brian's love interest. Ellary Porterfield as Ki Swan, Ted's main love interest and one of Brian's friends. Brian Firenzi as The Law, the world's #1 amateur gamer. He is Jenny Matrix's boyfriend for most of the series. Benji Dolly as Games Dean Rocky Collins as Drift King, the captain of the Drift Racing team and Ted's frenemy. Freddie Wong as a fictionalized version of himself. He is a world-famous rhythm gaming expert, he teaches rhythm gaming at VGHS, and is the father of Ted Wong. Zachary Levi as Ace Harley Morenstein as Dean Ernie Calhoun Justine Ezarik as Rosalie Joey Bertran as Jumpin' Jax LeeAnna Vamp as Esme Shira Lazar as Bella[4] Joel Dauten as Scott Slanders Clinton Jones as ShotBot (suit)/Clint Lockwood Wesley Chan as K-Pop Philip Wang as Oldboy Arden Cho as Korean TV Hostess

Production and release

Video Game High School is co-created byFreddie Wong, Will Campos, Brian Firenzi and Matt Arnold. In addition to acting as showrunner, Matt is also a writer, along with Will Campos and Brian Firenzi (founder of 5secondfilms.com). The series is based on a concept by Will Campos and Chris Pappavaselio. The team found funding for the series through Kickstarter, where he set a funding goal for $75,000 to be raised in a 30 day period. That amount was quickly pledged in less than 24 hours and continued to climb from there. On October 22, 2011, pledging came to a close. A total of $273,725 was raised for the project from 5,661 backers.[]

Video Game High School The team at Rocket Jump chose a webseries as the medium because his team "strongly believe the foundations for the future of digitally distributed content will be laid by webseries". Production began in mid-October, with the project finishing in early 2012. Principal photography for the film began on October 25, and ended in late November. The final four days of shooting took place at the Eagle Mountain iron mine and Mojave Desert. Post-production started shortly after and ended in early 2012. The trailer for the series premiered on YouTube on May 11 on freddiew's channel. The trailer currently has nearly 3.5 million views with 96% likes on freddiew on YouTube as of June 17, 2012.[5][6] Later, the show was edited into a two-hour long movie and released on other mediums, including DVD, Blu-ray, iTunes and Netflix.[7][8]

Episodes
Season 1
Number 1 Title "Brian Gets Accepted" Date of Release May11,2012

Ordinary and wimpy high school student Brian Doheny is offered a spot in Video Game High School after killing world-famous FPS player 'The Law' - The World's Number 1 Amateur Gamer - in a server he was playing in. 2 "First Day at School" May17,2012

Brian D gets a little more than he bargained for on his first day 3 "Ace's Class/The Pit" May24,2012

Brian has become infamous for his actions on the first day that ended with a pupil being expelled. 4 "The Party/Drift Racing" May31,2012

Jennys Party, dancing, drifting, and we meet a King. 5 "The JV/Varsity Scrimmage" June7,2012

Brian goes for broke at the JV/Varsity FPS scrimmage. However it ends badly when a he attempts to show off and accidentally fires an AT4 at Jenny Matrix, his team captain. 6 "The Games Dean Showdown" June14,2012

Brian has had just about enough of VGHS after the disastrous JV/Varsity Scrimmage. He is asked to leave the school but goes all out in a last ditch battle against 'Games Dean' 7 "Clan Tryouts Signups" June21,2012

Jenny tells Brian they can no longer talk. He tries to sign up for FPS, but gets in a fight with the Law. After starting a brawl, he is expelled. 8 "The Arcade" June28,2012

After Brian gets expelled, he takes over at an arcade where he meets Ted, Ki, and Jenny. Jenny makes up with Brian as well with Ki and Ted. 9 "The Finale" July5,2012

Thanks to a loophole, Brian gets one more shot to play against The Law, and maybe even get back in to VGHS.

The episodes were released once a week, from May 11 through July 5, 2012. First, the episode is released on the Rocket Jump website, then a week later, the same episode is released on the YouTube channel, freddiew. This is in an effort to attract more visitors to the studio's official website. People who pledged $20 or more to the project received HD digital downloads of each episode as they came out, as well as an HD download of the complete season. Those who pledged $25 or more received an exclusive DVD of the series with limited edition cover art, signed by cast and crew, and those who pledged $30 or more received an exclusive Blu-ray version.[]

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Season 2
Season 2 was confirmed during the latter half of 2012, by several of the people who worked on the first season.[9][10][11] The Kickstarter fundraiser started January 11, 2013,[12] ended on February 11, 2013 with the project more than sufficiently funded, and hints at a third season.[13]

References
[1] http:/ / www. rocketjump. com/ VGHS [2] http:/ / www. rocketjump. com/

External links
Official website (http://www.rocketjump.com) Video Game High School (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2170584/) at the Internet Movie Database

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