BB Mock/Fan-Made Thread

[beardymac]

I many years ago did the below based at the old Dreamworld concept. House was in 3 stages:

It was created using the plan from the BB03 house and extensions to the compound from its 2003 state are shown in red.

The Kitchen & Dining is something that hasn't been done in Australia.
They are split level. The kitchen going up, and the dining room going down (with the bathroom on the same level) by half the height of an ordinary wall.
This allows for a camera run to be below the bench, and also gives the housemates the ability to look down on the dining room if they are in the kitchen.

The water feature has a hidden camera in it that isn't visible to the housemates, giving a different view of the housemates to the viewers.

The maze outside is covered at first but is revealed when the two bedrooms are joined as one. Off that maze is a new version of the Chill Out Room that we saw in BB07. This Chill Out Room Sits on top of the compounds camera run so it’s almost like a cubby house that was done in 2014.

The exit for the housemates when they are evicted is back and on the side of the compound. This time having a switchable glass window that the housemates left in the house can see the housemate leaving the compound.

Please ignore the red dotted lines going through half of the houseplan, that is just an original indicator of where the actual interior shed starts.

Another thing, the little room on the bedroom once its joined (Also labelled in the split stage as CWC) is a central Water Cubical.

The rest is all pretty self explanatory, but if you have any questions ask away
Day 1:
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2 weeks in:
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Week 3/4
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Interesting design. Do you remember why you'd initially kept the maze closed off and the bedrooms separate?

 

[matts bb]

Interesting design. Do you remember why you'd initially kept the maze closed off and the bedrooms separate?

Idea of the two bedrooms was to create the "two groups / alliances" then the join was to force them all to share the same space. (mind you I think I made these about 15 years ago haha)

The unveiling of the maze was more again ( capped as to 2-3 people able to be in the cubbyhouse) to create a small space where separate convos can happen away from the wider group. Doing it mid way would allow more reason for there to be conflict and alliances again.

 

[Being Big Brother]

Does anyone have any fantasy house plans?

Nowhere near as detailed as the others, but:

I always thought it'd be a fun gimmick to have four differently-themed Diary Rooms on a round, rotating platform, so you'd never know "which" Diary Room you were being called to. One or more could even be contextual, i.e. redesigned on the fly.

You could even use it as a way to spirit someone away to a secret room without anyone knowing. Just call them to the DR, then rotate it to "reveal" the secret corridor.

 

[Brekkie]

That's giving me flashbacks to the "revolve" in BB08 - probably the worst bit of design ever in BBAU history!

Could be fun here though - always like the idea of a chill corner somewhere in the house or corner which one day will take a housemate by surprise and rotate around and relocate them somewhere else.

 

[matts bb]

Nowhere near as detailed as the others, but:

I always thought it'd be a fun gimmick to have four differently-themed Diary Rooms on a round, rotating platform, so you'd never know "which" Diary Room you were being called to. One or more could even be contextual, i.e. redesigned on the fly.

You could even use it as a way to spirit someone away to a secret room without anyone knowing. Just call them to the DR, then rotate it to "reveal" the secret corridor.

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I actually really love this idea. Especially the housemate getting "kidnapped" essentially and then the other housemates wondering where they are and BB just playing plain dumb to it.

 

[Being Big Brother]

Forgot to share this. I was bored, messing with the BB04 titles and the different blending modes in DaVinci... accidentally made some moody, dark blue titles that would've been great for UpLate.

There's a bit of "ghosting" where the two sets of titles didn't quite sync up... Honestly, these titles are a nightmare for that. I remember having to battle with it when I did the "rainbow" titles. In this case, I couldn't be fucked to fix it.

 

[matts bb]

Just reposting this theme remix I did here

 

[marquisite]

Over the last little bit I put together a retrospective BB theme tune mix, and with last night's 2008 stream marathon delayed until this morning I decided to create a montage video with snippets of the opening titles and some iconic moments to go along with my theme mix:

The idea is to play this as a one-off to open the 2025 launch show. What's missing is some kind of a segue at the end to tie back to the new series - e.g. BB welcoming Australia back to the BB house, crowd cheering (if the crowd is large enough!), etc

Yes, in its current form there are past ch10 series missing e.g. 2002, 2005 & 2006. Also no winner announcements at all (but maybe that is best reserved for a separate launch package before new housemates are introduced?). Primarily my video is to showcase the theme tune mix I created. Also for 2008 I carried over the 2003-2007 synth melody because it didn't flow too well with such a sudden change from synth to electric guitar.

 

[matts bb]

Over the last little bit I put together a retrospective BB theme tune mix, and with last night's 2008 stream marathon delayed until this morning I decided to create a montage video with snippets of the opening titles and some iconic moments to go along with my theme mix:

The idea is to play this as a one-off to open the 2025 launch show. What's missing is some kind of a segue at the end to tie back to the new series - e.g. BB welcoming Australia back to the BB house, crowd cheering (if the crowd is large enough!), etc

Yes, in its current form there are past ch10 series missing e.g. 2002, 2005 & 2006. Also no winner announcements at all (but maybe that is best reserved for a separate launch package before new housemates are introduced?). Primarily my video is to showcase the theme tune mix I created. Also for 2008 I carried over the 2003-2007 synth melody because it didn't flow too well with such a sudden change from synth to electric guitar.

Brilliant work as always!