History WebVideo / HeartsOfDorkness

Hearts of Dorkness is an upcoming {{Mockumentary}} [[WebOriginal web series]], based on the linked video.

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj8UOdFs5Go&context=C3de6871ADOEgsToPDskKNlqODDsL4mW0GosRCicuu The original project]] is written as a mockumentary akin to ''Film/TropicThunder'''s "Rain of Madness", a satire of ''Film/HeartsOfDarkness'', in this case being a teenager-produced shoestring-budget short that chronicles four geeks and their catastrophic efforts to create a 200 million dollar film based on ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' with [[NoBudget a budget of their pocket change]].

The pilot episode of the webseries, which will likely be released sometime in May, based on comments by the poster of the original video, is going to be an expanded reshoot of the original video, with the subsequent episodes following up on the first's events, with the four teens becoming increasingly dejected and deflating the scope of their vision.
The four confirmed games that the characters will attempt to adapt (one per episode):
* VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim
* VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas
* VideoGame/Left4Dead
* VideoGame/{{Hitman}}

!!Provides Examples Of:
* AllJustADream: The opening sequence of the original video/pilot, in which the Director receives an Academy Award in the category of Best Everything, before waking up, fully clothed, with all of his friends in the room with him.
%%* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Another character trait that'll be introduced with Kyle in the web series.

* CameraAbuse: During The Director's second freak-out in the original video, the filming of the scene's last shot suggests that he slapped the camera out of Steve's hand as an enraged reaction to his statement that the film would never be finished.

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: A sepia tone effect is used for the flashback in the original video.
%%* DullSurprise: Joel, in the original video.
* GRatedDrug: The Director becomes addicted to Red Bull in the original video/pilot.
* ItsAllAboutMe: The Director thanks himself four times in a dream award acceptance speech, and repeatedly refers to Skyrim: The Movie as "my movie" and "my big shot."
* {{Jerkass}}: The Director forces his only friends to fund his movie by threatening them with a spiked hammer, [[spoiler:sells one of said friends' prized Pokeball and uses the money to buy luxury items for himself]], and takes pretty much all of the credit for their collaboration, when his friends did most of the work. And all of that is only in the original video/the pilot.
%%* JumpCut: Practically every cut in the original video. {{Justified|Trope}} due to the fact that it was original a school project, and the editor (one of the writers) had only two afternoons to do the editing. This was also partly due to the camera-man stopping the take too early. The writers have promised to avoid this as much as possible for the series, since they no longer have the restrictions of the original in place.

* SmallNameBigEgo: The Director. This is established from the original's very first scene, in which the Director receives the Oscar in the category of "Best Everything" for his creation of [[TheMovie Skyrim: The Movie]]. The announcer voice-over is done by the actor that portrays the Director, and in his brief acceptance speech, the Director thanks himself four times. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And Batman.]]

* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] Kyle's attempt to hit the Director with his prop sword, in the original vid/pilot, utterly fails.
* ThrowItIn: Multiple ad-libs are done due to the two writers being unable to go beyond the basic concepts of the scenes due to the very limited amount of time that they had. Examples: The Director's babbling after he has downed several Red Bulls "Um. .Um. .Is that words? I don't. .I can't. .I don't know." (In response to, "I think you need to lay off the Red Bull.") "I DON'T NEED YOUR PITY!" Also, all of the dialogue during the Scrapped Scene. That which caught the others off guard the most was Kyle's DOYOOOO during the first take. The rest of the crew's reactions were apparently significantly more natural on that first take, but the camera wasn't on for it.
* TooDumbToLive: The Director manages to rent out an entire theater, when he could've used the money that was spent on that to fund the film.
* WhamLine: From the original video: [[spoiler: "You haven't actually played Skyrim, have you?" Suddenly, our story transitions from an obsessive, delusional fanboy recruiting his friends to help make a Skyrim film, that he hopes will be a massive hit, to an egotistical {{Jerkass}} manipulating his only friends (all of whom actually like Skyrim) into helping him make a movie that he will take all of the credit for, so that he can receive all of the supposed fame and fortune that will come with it.]]

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Another character trait that'll be introduced with Kyle in the web series.
* BerserkButton: The music of Kyle's Pokemon games is this for The Director. Also, Kyle's is finding out that [[spoiler:the Pokeball that he donated was sold to fund the renting of an entire theater]].
* BreakTheHaughty: This has been implied by the writers to happen to The Director in the series as the group's failures begin to pile up.

* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Pokeball]]
* TheCynic: Steve is closest to this, with Kyle being wildly optimistic, The Director's mental delusions getting in the way of reality, and Mike caring more about actually having a project in which he can utilize his technological skills than the outcome of said project.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The sepia tone effect that was used for the flashback in the original video.
* DullSurprise: Joel, in the original video.
* {{Flanderization}}: Oddly enough, reversed. Kyle's most distinctive character trait in the original was his obsession with Pokemon. The writers have stated that they intend to heavily tone this down in the web series, focusing on his [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny impulsiveness and lack of concentration]], [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} other eccentricities and obsessions]], and his [[WideEyedIdealist optimism]].
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The characters of the original short were inadvertently this, though their characterizations were overall rather thin and vague, something that the writers intend to improve upon for the series. The characters of the series are intentionally written to fit into the four main archetypes:
** [[InsufferableGenius The Director]] is Choleric
** [[RidiculouslyAverageGuy Steve]] is Phlegmatic
** [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Kyle]] is Sanguine
** The Cameraman ([[TheGenericGuy Joel]], in the original, and Mike, in the series) is Melancholic
* GRatedDrug: Red Bull, to which the Director becomes addicted in the original video/pilot.
* ItsAllAboutMe: The Director. He thanks himself four times in a dream award acceptance speech, and repeatedly refers to Skyrim: The Movie as "my movie" and "my big shot." PlayedForLaughs, at least for now.
* {{Jerkass}}: Again, the Director. He forces his only friends to fund his movie by threatening them with a spiked hammer, [[spoiler:sells one of said friends' prized Pokeball and uses the money to buy luxury items for himself]], and takes pretty much all of the credit for their collaboration, when his friends did most of the work. And all of that is only in the original video/the pilot.
* JumpCut: Practically every cut in the original video. {{Justified|Trope}} due to the fact that it was original a school project, and the editor (one of the writers) had only two afternoons to do the editing. This was also partly due to the camera-man stopping the take too early. The writers have promised to avoid this as much as possible for the series, since they no longer have the restrictions of the original in place.
* LargeHam: Steve as an Imperial Guard, naturally. Also, The Director as both the announcer in his dream and as himself.
* MadArtist: The Director is a toned down version of this character, though it'll likely be amped up as the series goes on.
* {{Mockumentary}}: Naturally.
* {{Montage}}: The brainstorming scene.

* WhamLine: From the original video, and presumably the pilot: [[spoiler: "You haven't actually played Skyrim, have you?" Suddenly, our story transitions from an obsessive, delusional fanboy recruiting his friends to help make a Skyrim film, that he hopes will be a massive hit, to an egotistical {{Jerkass}} manipulating his only friends (all of whom actually like Skyrim) into helping him make a movie that he will take all of the credit for, so that he can receive all of the supposed fame and fortune that will come with it.]]
** {{Alternative|CharacterInterpretation}}ly, this makes The Director more pitiable, as he is [[spoiler:willing to alienate his only friends because he has deluded himself into thinking that he could become massively successful off of their NoBudget disaster of a movie]].
* WideEyedIdealist: The writers intend to introduce this trait of Kyle in the web series, as part of his expansion as a character.
* WordOfGod: All of the remarks about the writers' intentions for the web series can be traced back to comments of theirs.

[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj8UOdFs5Go&context=C3de6871ADOEgsToPDskKNlqODDsL4mW0GosRCicuu The original project]] is written as a mockumentary akin to ''Film/TropicThunder'''s "Rain of Madness", a satire of Hearts of Darkness, in this case being a teenager-produced shoestring-budget short that chronicles four geeks and their catastrophic efforts to create a 200 million dollar film based on ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' with [[NoBudget a budget of their pocket change]].

[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj8UOdFs5Go&context=C3de6871ADOEgsToPDskKNlqODDsL4mW0GosRCicuu The original project]] is written as a mockumentary akin to ''Film/TropicThunder'''s "Rain of Madness", a satire of Hearts of Darkness, in this case being a teenager-produced shoestring-budget short that chronicles four geeks and their catastrophic efforts to create a 200 million dollar film based on ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' with [[NoBudget a budget of their pocket change.]]

* BerserkButton: The music of Kyle's Pokemon games is this for The Director. Also, Kyle's is finding out that [[spoiler:the Poke Ball that he donated was sold to fund the renting of an entire theater.]]

* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov'sPokeball]]

* {{Flanderization}}: Oddly enough, reversed. Kyle's most distinctive character trait in the original was his obsession with Pokemon. The writers have stated that they intend to heavily tone this down in the web series, focusing on his [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny impulsiveness and lack of concentration]], [[CloudCuckooLander other eccentricities and obsessions]], and his [[WideEyedIdealist optimism.

** [[CloudCuckooLander Kyle]] is Sanguine

* ItsAllAboutMe: The Director. He thanks himself four times in a dream award acceptance speech, and repeatedly refers to Skyrim:The Movie as "my movie" and "my big shot." PlayedForLaughs, at least for now.

* JumpCut: Practically every cut in the original video. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] due to the fact that it was original a school project, and the editor (one of the writers) had only two afternoons to do the editing. This was also partly due to the camera-man stopping the take too early. The writers have promised to avoid this as much as possible for the series, since they no longer have the restrictions of the original in place.

* SmallNameBigEgo: The Director. This is established from the original's very first scene, in which the Director receives the Oscar in the category of "Best Everything" for his creation of [[TheMovie Skyrim:The Movie]]. The announcer voice-over is done by the actor that portrays the Director, and in his brief acceptance speech, the Director thanks himself four times. [[AndZoidberg And Batman.]]

** [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Alternatively]], this makes The Director more pitiable, as he is [[spoiler:willing to alienate his only friends because he has deluded himself into thinking that he could become massively successful off of their NoBudget disaster of a movie.]]

[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj8UOdFs5Go&context=C3de6871ADOEgsToPDskKNlqODDsL4mW0GosRCicuu The original project]] is written as a mockumentary akin to TropicThunder's Rain of Madness, a satire of Hearts of Darkness, in this case being a teenager-produced shoestring-budget short that chronicles four geeks and their catastrophic efforts to create a 200 million dollar film based on ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' with [[NoBudget a budget of their pocket change.]]

[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj8UOdFs5Go&context=C3de6871ADOEgsToPDskKNlqODDsL4mW0GosRCicuu The original project]] is written as a mockumentary akin to TropicThunder's Rain of Madness, a satire of Hearts of Darkness, in this case being a teenager-produced shoestring-budget short that chronicles four geeks and their catastrophic efforts to create a 200 million dollar film based on [[TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]] with [[NoBudget a budget of their pocket change.]]

TheElderScrollsVSkyrim

FalloutNewVegas

Left4Dead

{{Hitman}}

* BeyondTheImpossible: The Director manages to rent out an entire theater, when he could've used the money that was spent on that to fund the film.