''Accidental Lovers'' (''Sydän kierroksella'') is a Finnish interactive musical comedy series on television. Viewers can affect the love relationship between 61-year-old cabaret singer Juulia ( Kristiina Elstelä) and 30-year-old pop star Roope () by sending mobile

text messages Text messaging, or texting, is the act of composing and sending electronic messages, typically consisting of alphabetic and numeric characters, between two or more users of mobile phones, tablet computers, smartwatches, desktop computer, des ...

to the show. Depending on the nature of the messages the plot takes turns in real time. Either Juulia or Roope falls in love or they both fall in love, resulting in a relationship that has three different kinds of endings. Scenes between these climactic drama outcomes are chosen and organized semi-randomly according to the character's emotional state. Each

voiceover Voice-over (also known as off-camera or off-stage commentary) is a production technique used in radio, television, filmmaking, theatre, and other media in which a descriptive or expository voice that is not part of the narrative (i.e., non- ...

thought on top of the scenes is chosen according to the keywords in the mobile text messages. A total of twelve 28-minute episodes were broadcast during four nights. Every story starts from the same beginning but unfolds differently each time.

Text message effect

Based on keywords that are scanned from viewers' text messages other one of the main characters think a voiceover thought at the same time when the message appears on screen. Each message is also 'cold' or 'hot' causing the character's feelings to cool off or warm up. As this message information accumulates the plot changes it turns.

Production

''Accidental Lovers'' was broadcast between late December 2006 and early January 2007 on Finnish

YLE Yleisradio Oy (; ), abbreviated as Yle () (formerly styled in all uppercase until 2012), translated into English as the Finnish Broadcasting Company, is Finland's national public broadcasting company, founded in 1926. It is a joint-stock comp ...

channel 1. It is a co-production of Crucible Studio in

University of Art and Design Helsinki Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture; ; ), was formed of two separate schools: the faculty of architecture (previously part of the Helsinki University of Technology) and the University of Art and Design Helsinki (UIAH, known in ...

and YLE drama department. The new broadcast technology and production tools were developed in as part of the FP6 project ''New Millennium New Media (NM2)''. * Directed by Mika Lumi Tuomola * Original idea and written by Leena Saarinen and Mika Lumi Tuomola

References

External links

Accidental Lovers (Crucible Studio)
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