Computer Game Comes Alive Prank Patrol

'Today, Joe Barrett joins the Prank Patrol.

'His mission - to create a computer game so real

'it comes alive when you play it.

'But his brother, James,

'is going to learn that some computer games...'

-ROBOTIC VOICE: Do not hit me.

-'..they don't like to be played.'

# Here they come They're on a roll

# Where they'll strike nobody knows

# If you have a point to prove

# They'll make a plan and see it through

# They'll sign you up to join their crew

# Barney and the Ninjas too

# Here we go Come and join the Prank Patrol. #

'Meet our newest prankster -

'Joe Barrett.

'A lively fellow from Bredbury in Cheshire.

'Joe keeps active and his hobbies include football,

'playing with his family, tennis and tap dancing.

'Don't laugh, it's good for your muscles.'

That's definitely him.

Joe Barrett, how would you like to make your dream prank come true?

-Great.

-Congratulations. You're the newest member of the Prank Patrol.

Dad, can I...?

Oops.

I take it that's a yes, then.

Joe, this way.

'The target of Joe's prank

'is his brother, James.

'James loves playing games on the computer,

'so much so that it drives Joe nuts.

'Normally, this wouldn't be so bad,

'but James thinks he's a games master.

'He's always rubbing Joe's face in it

'that he is the best, but Prank Patrol may be the answer.

-Let's talk about James.

-James.

You have another brother called Tom and a sister called Scarlett.

Why have you chosen to prank James?

Well, James is always the joker, he's always the one that has his way.

-I wanted to get him back.

-What's he done to you?

It's not what he's done, it's just the way he is.

-We have a nickname for him - Alby - annoying little brother.

-OK.

-Nice.

-But whenever I say I'm going to play football,

he goes, "You have to play a computer game with me first,"

and the game lasts 20 minutes and it goes on.

You miss your football...

-You want to beat him at his own game.

-Yeah.

-OK.

What have you got in mind?

There's computer games and everything,

I thought about taking him to a fake testing area

and you know those suits they wear?

Motion-sensor ones?

You could wear them and try and fool him or something.

-You know the kind I mean?

-I think so.

He goes to a fake games testing area...

for a big company, we give him a motion-sensor suit

-that he thinks is controlling a character on screen...

-Yeah.

-How about if the character turns round and is human?

-Yeah.

Very nice idea. Let's see what your family thinks.

I don't think it'll be easy to pull this prank off.

There's a lot of organisation and hard work.

I think, between Barney and Joe, they can pull it off.

This is a really big challenge for Joseph,

but he's got to be careful because James is no push-over.

Lots of support there. That sounds a great idea.

Let's do it. Ninjas, take us to Prank HQ!

TYRES SCREECH

Ah-ha, we've been expecting you.

Tell the team what you want them to do, Joe.

I want to pull the ultimate prank.

I want you to help me.

We're going to design a video game character

and do it professionally.

We're going to get my brother and experiment with him.

Do some crazy stuff and I would like the game to come alive

and scare him to death.

I could pretend to be one of the designers, yeah?

-I could wind him up, get him to do stupid things.

-Yeah.

I'll do some doodles, some sketches.

And do a computer game character for you.

-That's fine.

-From Dave's sketches,

I could build some body armour,

so the game figure comes alive.

-That would be fantastic.

-All that leaves is me

to be the virtual reality robot.

-ROBOTIC VOICE:

-I am a robot, I am part of a computer game.

I will eat you.

I will...

'Before we build the character,

'Dave and Joe have to decide on the look.'

-I like that belt...

-Like a utility belt?

-Yeah.

-To put his bits and bobs.

-I like this tube thing.

I think we've got enough ideas to come up with something cool.

'Now Dave knows what Joe has in mind,

'it's time to put pen to paper and create a masterpiece.'

Colours.

-That is fantastic.

-Let's have a look at this.

-Oh, yes!

-It's great, isn't it?

-Very nice work.

We need a name now. Any ideas?

-Duvet man!

-Duvet?

-Rabbit Boy.

No, he looks dead macho and everything.

-Like Combat something.

-Yeah. Combat.

Combat Boy, Sir Combat. Combat Man, Mr Combat.

-Sergeant Combat, Colonel Combat, Captain...

-Colonel Combat.

That's got a ring to it.

Very nice. Hello, Colonel Combat.

We now need to make him come to life.

Hang on a minute!

Who's drawn a picture of me with pigtails, a handbag and a dress?

Ninjas!

'Now that Colonel Combat has been created on paper,

'Darren's been getting busy with some body armour and shin pads

'to bring it to life.'

Do robots have accents? They don't, do they?

They have that same "I am a robot!"

ROBOTIC VOICE: "I am a robot!"

'After the suit had been fitted, we just had to add a dash of colour.'

To make sure it's just right, you should test it on the public.

-MOCK ROBOT VOICE:

-Affirmative!

I'll be back in time for tea.

If I saw Colonel Combat walking towards me,

I think I'd be very scared, because of the design.

I designed it for my brother, so that it will shock him,

so hopefully, people will be frightened of him

and will try and avoid him.

-All right, Joe?

-How did it go, then?

It was really good. A few mixed reactions,

but I think people are convinced it's a robot suit, so it's sorted.

Now we need to make the motion-sensor suits

that you and James are gonna wear.

What do you think I've been doing while you've played with that suit?!

Have you been doing it? Oh, brilliant! Nice mummy.

That looks great. So how have you made that?

-Literally, I got one of these, a ping-pong ball...

-Let's have a look.

I've always wanted to do this. Right, OK.

Cut it in half, stick it on,

put some wire through it, and you've got "motion sensors".

So with the motion-capture suits completed,

it's time for the Ninjas to load the van and take us to the location

to create the virtual world that Colonel Combat lives in.

SIREN BLARES

So here we are, Joe - our prank location.

This is where the computer game prank will go down.

-Welcome to the headquarters of PP Games.

-Is that a real company?

No, we made it up. This is where you brother will be led,

through some corridors and some stairways,

which eventually lead to this room here.

Now, James is gonna be led through into the headquarters of...PP Games!

Prank Patrol, of course. He's gonna be led to this door on the left,

which says Test Room 1, but it's just an office room.

Look in there and you'll see it's had a make-over to make it look

like a state-of-the-art games testing centre.

Now that is a projection screen, the projector's up there,

and that is where we'll see Colonel Combat

and James will try to use those motion-sensor suits.

That's all I know about the computer side of things.

The guy who's here to tell you about it is Paul.

He said he would meet us here, but I've no idea where he is.

Hiya. Sorry, I couldn't find the front door.

-LAUGHTER

-Are you Joe?

I knew that was gonna happen and it still got me!

Paul, what an entrance.

That's what I'm gonna do to James when he's in here.

-Flippin' heck!

-You think he'll be shocked?

Yeah, he's gonna be well shocked!

Me too, that was brilliant. Thank you very much.

Let's get that fixed, I'll sort out the green screen

-and get into costume.

-OK.

-Great.

-Oh...

Now, movies and TV shows use green screen all the time

to make it look like people are standing somewhere they're not.

They film the person, then run the image through a computer

and tell it to replace anything green with the background they want.

Right, OK, Joe, to make this game more realistic,

-we'll need to pick backgrounds...

-OK.

..so Colonel Combat can stand in front of it.

-What do you think of the first one?

-A beach?!

-What do you think? Not really?

-No.

-Not as fierce, is it?

-OK, let's look at the next background.

Underwater? You could make him swim maybe.

-Maybe, but he'd get his arm rusted, though, wouldn't he?

-Mm-hm.

-It's not very realistic as well, is it?

-Shall we try another?

-Yeah.

-Aha! A tunnel.

-Ah!

-That looks a bit more computer game.

-Yeah.

I think James would love this, but it's like he's floating in mid air.

OK, Joe, how about this one?

-Yeah, that's great!

-Like that?

-Yeah, nice and dark!

That's definitely the one for Colonel Combat.

Oh, yes, Joe. Definitely a very cool interactive background there.

Is there a reason why you chose that one?

Probably because it's mysterious

and Colonel Combat would hang out in those sorts of areas.

Well, I am Colonel Combat and I like it a lot.

-Do you think James will?

-Oh, he'll fall for it definitely.

I hope so. That's the background sorted.

-Next is the motion-sensor suits. Shall we do it?

-Let's go!

-Come on!

'Joe's putting on the motion-capture suit he created earlier.

'The suit is supposed to detect any movement that he makes.

'It doesn't do anything, but that's not what brother James will think.

'James is going to be told that wherever he moves,

'Colonel Combat will move as well. So if he dances, I'll dance too.

'I wonder if he knows the tango.' Do you know what, Joe?

-This is gonna be awesome!

-It'll be fantastic!

But there's still loads to do, so, Ninjas, you get to it,

and, Joe, we'll get out of these costumes

and make the important call to your brother James.

-Hello?

-Hi, is that James?

-Yeah.

-Hi, mate, it's me.

-Oh, hi, Joe.

-I've got some good news for you.

-What?

They're looking for another person to test it.

It's on Thursday. I wondered if you wanted to come.

Yeah, yeah, yeah!

OK, then. I'll tell you all the details back at home.

-OK.

-I'll see you, mate.

-See you.

-Bye.

-Bye.

Oh, well done, mate. You did so well at the end.

I thought he'd finally work out what was going on,

-but he sounded excited.

-Yeah, he's really excited.

This prank is gonna be awesome.

So you're watching your favourite TV show,

when, all of a sudden, you get mashed by a great big couch potato.

Well, why not channel your energy into this home-made recipe?

All you need is a universal remote control.

You can buy one cheaply and easily in any electrical shop.

Set it up so it works with your TV.

Then all you do is point and click. Make sure you stay out of sight

while you change channels, switch it off or kill the sound

all happening mysteriously.

CHANNELS KEEP CHANGING

Aargh!

-GIGGLING

-Try it out.

There's no limit to the fun you can have with this handy device.

-So I think it's safe to say that James is roped in.

-Definitely.

There's no turning back. How are you feeling?

-Pretty nervous and excited. About 50/50.

-A nice mixture.

-He's gonna fall for it.

-Yeah!

-And before we do it,

I've got words of encouragement from your family. Let's see.

Joe, you've worked really hard and it's now or never.

You know James isn't stupid,

so you've got to get him and get him good.

Hi, Joe, it's Tom, your more cool and more intelligent brother.

Get James good, cos we don't call him Annoying Little Brother for nothing.

Good luck, dude!

-Aw, that's nice.

-Yeah.

-Feeling OK?

-Great.

-Shall we do this?!

-Let's go do it.

-Let's go!

Prank Patroller Joe Barrett has created a video game

for his brother, James, to play. James thinks it's a new game

that isn't on the market. Will James fall for the prank?

Or will Joe's prank short-circuit? All coming up in Prank Patrol.

Joe's about to pull the prank of a lifetime.

It's all rigged up. It's going to be wicked.

We have the green screen.

There'll be the fake background.

That's the door that I'll come crashing through.

And this is a very important room here.

This is the control room with Ash and Paul.

Hey, Joe!

We'll see you in a bit.

And this is the games-testing centre.

Now, James will be stood here.

He'll look at the projection screen, hopefully getting me to move.

At the end, I'll come crashing through that wall.

We'll be capturing James's face on our hidden cameras.

There's one up there.

One in the middle. And one over here. Hello!

I'll get into costume and we'll get this prank underway.

Hang on a minute... I don't need a water pistol for this.

But I could get someone back

who made me walk round a shopping centre dressed as a robot.

Oh...Ninjas!

So James is two minutes away.

There's no turning back now, Joe.

-Colonel Combat is ready. Is Joe?

-I am ready.

A bit nervous.

-I can't wait to see James's face.

-He has no idea.

Let's get to it. Before we do... Ninjas!

Hide the Prank Van.

The blueprint for Joe's prank is...

one fake motion-capture suit to control Colonel Combat,

who will be inside a 3-D computer universe

that we project onto one giant breakaway wall.

So James has just been dropped off by his dad

to test a new computer game.

But he has no idea the virtual world is about to break through

in a serious way. Let the pranking begin.

This is it.

Hey, guys, how you doing?

-Nice to meet you.

-I'm Joe.

-And I am James.

-Nice to meet you. How are you doing?

-Fine.

-You excited?

-Yeah.

Do you know what's happening?

You'll find out. Don't worry. I'm Lars, the software designer.

I'll show you in the test room what will happen. Let's go through.

This is our testing section room.

If you want to come in, guys.

-This is so cool.

-It is, isn't it?

You have to stand on the sensor mat.

I'll tell you what's going on.

Here at PP Games, we've designed a new way of playing video games.

It's called Motion Capture Sensitivity.

That sounds strange, but cool!

It works by AI technology.

Before I say this, I should tell you about the oath.

We can't reveal anything without the oath.

What's the oath?

We have to say this oath before we reveal anything.

Because if you tell someone - you probably won't -

I could be in a lot of trouble. Do you mind?

No.

-Put your hands up like this. Say, "I promise..."

-I promise...

-"..not to tell anyone..."

-..not to tell anyone...

-"..about this new development..."

-..about this new development...

-"..of AI technology..."

-..of AI technology...

-"..and I will never tell anyone..."

-..and I will never tell anyone...

-"..ever..."

-..ever...

-"..ever..."

-..ever...

-"..ever..."

-"..ever..."

-"..ever..." This is on the sheet.

-..ever...

-"..ever..."

-..ever...

-OK. Thank you.

We need to put you in the suits.

-I'll take you through that.

-Suits?!

-Motion-capture suits.

You put them on, stand there, cameras pick up the sensors,

pick up the movement of the character.

You control the character on screen. It's cool, isn't it?

Let's go through. I'll show you the suits.

Have a look at these suits, man.

These are unbelievable... Careful!

These suits are worth £250,000 each.

'£250,000 each?! More like £2.50 each.

'With the lads in their ping-pong... er, motion-capture suits,

'it's time to get the testing underway.

'And seeing as James thinks he's the best gamer, he's up first.'

You'll see a video come up. I want you to copy what they do on the mat.

'James is about to see a very advanced exercise video.

'And those goons work in the Prank Patrol office.'

Keep it up, James.

That's impressive!

-How do you feel?

-Great!

Fantastic. You can stop now. We've got all the results.

If you want to go, Joe. I know you won't be as good. Try your best.

Just try hard. Ready? Go.

That's it. Good effort.

I know you're getting tired, but don't give up.

You can stop now, Joe.

We'll work out the results.

Give us one second.

James, you got 32%. Not bad. Good effort.

Joe...you got 93%.

My God!

That's awesome. I tried it and got 76%. You are superb, man.

Right, we'll start with the gaming programme, yeah?

You wait there and I'll be back in a sec.

Since he's the best, he'd better go first.

-Getting a bit annoyed there, James.

-When you hear my voice,

you'll see the character come on screen. Copy what I say to do.

That's all you have to do.

This is the exciting part.

Move your left arm slowly up now.

That's it. And hold it.

And now I want you to move your left arm down now.

Fantastic. That is amazing. Brilliant results.

Let's try your right hand now.

Move your right arm up slowly now.

Keep it going. Keep it going.

Stop. And move it down, back down.

Fantastic.

That's brilliant. We want to try you now, James, if you'd like to swap.

That's it.

Ready? Just stand on the map. Hands by your side.

BLEEPING

Right, Joe, there's a problem with a sensor.

Paul's coming out.

'We're pretending Joe has something wrong with his suit

'so we can get James on his own in the Prank Room.

'It's all part of the prank

'as we want James alone with Colonel Combat.'

Move your right arm slowly after three. One, two, three...now.

Right arm up slowly.

Keep going.

Keep going. Take it all the way to the top.

Now stop. And move it down now.

All the way down slowly.

Keep it going. All the way down.

-Maybe try more complex moves.

-We need to test the audio.

Can you do like a chicken?

That's it. That's it.

That's good.

Can you do a chicken noise while you're doing the movement?

Burk, burk, burk.

That's a 7 audio.

Can you do it a bit higher? The chicken noise higher?

Burk, burk, burk.

Fantastic.

Hang on. Can you do a loud miaow sound?

-Miaow.

-Louder.

-Miaow!

-Can you say the alphabet in a miaow sound?

Miaow A, miaow B, miaow C, miaow D,

-miaow E, miaow F...

-OK. Wicked.

-BLEEP

Hang on. The monitor's gone down.

James, we have to reboot. To reboot you need to slap your face slowly.

And now.

And slap your face. That's it.

ROBOTIC VOICE: Do not hit me!

Did something happen then?

-It said, "Do not hit me."

-What?!

-It said, "Do not hit me."

Try it again.

Right. Slowly after I say. Maybe hit yourself a bit harder.

It might respond better. After three. 1...2...3...

Go!

That was better.

I said do...not...hit...me!

-What's he doing?

-He said, "I said do not hit me."

-Do not hit me?!

That's... I don't know what's going on.

There's only you in there.

Stay on the mat. Don't go off the mat.

-Are you OK.

-Look.

He didn't do anything. Just calm down, James.

..intolerable!

Let's try and reboot.

-Can you leave the room, Joe?

-Yeah. Good luck, mate.

It needs rebooted!

We'll try it one more time. Keep looking at the screen.

It's the left hand again, but slap yourself a bit harder.

Ready? Go now!

Hard!

Terminate programme!

Terminate programme!

We're going to check what's going on.

Terminate programme! Terminate programme!

Argh! Argh!

Hello, James!

You've just been pranked by the Prank Patrol.

Oh, my God!

That was so freaky!

Well done, Joe. All right, James?

That is so... YOU KNEW!

That's why you were here earlier today!

Yes!

Well done, fellas.

-The past few weeks has been a whole scam.

-Pranked to perfection.

Would you agree? What a sport. Look at him.

Well done, mate.

When the man walked through the wall, it was amazing!

It was scary because a computer man just jumped out of a screen.

The look on his face when it pops out.

I'd do anything to get that look on his face.

There was a jump then he was, "I don't know what to do now."

I was that close. He was, "Don't hit me. I'm sorry."

That was ten out of ten, definitely.

He was totally gobsmacked.

I can still beat him any day.

-No, you couldn't!

-I could beat you ANY day.

The prank was fantastic. He stitched his brother up and he deserved it.

Good job.

-We're big mates, aren't we?

-Yeah(!)

Eric Fish creates a giant spider

to spin a web of deceit over his best friend, Tom.

Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd