Ozymandias Readme

Final Cut

"I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear --
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

- "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Ozymandias" is based on the poem of the same name by Percy Bysshe Shelley, husband of Mary Shelley, the authoress of Frankenstein, and possibly the greatest poet of the Romantic period. 



Installation

1) Unzip into a folder with "Use Folder Names" or equivalent setting on. 

2) Run Setup.bat to uncompress the sound files. 

3) Run Run.bat to run Ozymandias. 

Whilst Ozymandias is running, the left and right cursor keys will bring the film control panel down. "Enter" selects options from this panel. Note that some effects within the film (notably sound) will not run correctly with rewind, fast-forward or pause options. 


Credits: 

Sound: Dave "Oneiros" Connor (dave@oneirosbooks.freeserve.co.uk) and Gordon McDonald (gordon@strangecompany.org)
Sets, models and skins: Neal "Guplik" Corbett (guplik@pmail.net), Bradlay Law(b.law@pmail.net), Hugh "Nomad" Hancock (nomad@strangecompany.org)
Textures: Danial Martin (dan@strangecompany.org)
Camerawork: Gordon McDonald (gordon@strangecompany.org)
Director: Hugh "Nomad" Hancock (nomad@strangecompany.org)

Written by Hugh Hancock based on the poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley. 

A Strange Company (http://www.strangecompany.org) Production. 

Copyright Strange Company 1999-2000.