9/6/2002
Pushing the Envelope
BAFTA, London
Fusing Art, Games and Entertainment. Designer Alex Mayhew and Producer Emma Westecott provide an in-depth insight into their personal experience of the creative, technical and commercial challenges involved in developing a new genre of computer game: Dreamer and its' sister project, The Hive.
Pushing the Envelope
Fusing Art, Games and Entertainment
Monday 10 June 6.30pm - 9.00pm
The David Lean Room
Designer Alex Mayhew and Producer Emma Westecott provide an in-depth
insight
into their personal experience of the creative, technical and
commercial
challenges involved in developing a new genre of computer game: Dreamer
and
its' sister project, The Hive.
Dreamer is a game with a difference. The whole piece functions on the
basis
of high action and emotional drama, of which the player will be either
be
responsible for, or at least involved in. It takes place inside the
head of
a man who mysteriously fallen into a deep narcoleptic state. The Hive
is a
multi player environment set in the world of the Dreamer. It pits the
two
main communities in Max's dream, wasps and butterflies, against each
other
in an online war. The player will enter and play in the form of one of
these
insects
Alex Mayhew worked for Peter Gabriel's Real World on various multimedia
projects and was the creative director and chief designer of Ceremony
of
Innocence, an interactive CD-ROM based on Nick Bantock's Griffin and
Sabine
trilogy - a mysterious story of love at the edge of sanity, told
through the
intense and intimate correspondence.
He then went on to complete a year's artist in residence at CREATEC
(Ealing
Studios), a new media lab which was a research branch of the National
Film
&Television School.
Emma Westecott has worked as a creative producer in interactive media
for
over 7 years producing and programming projects for the likes of MTV,
Real
World Studios, Virgin, Coca Cola and Geffen Records as well as
lecturing in
interaction design at The University of Westminster. Her most recent
games
credit is as Producer on Starship Titanic, Douglas Adams' best selling
CD-ROM Adventure Game. She is responsible for the launch of TDV's
flagship
web-based community based on The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
Jett Loe, moderator of this informal event, has lived in the UK and the
United States for the last 10 years. His work in media has straddled
the
divisions between old and new - he co-started an Internet Service
Provider
in the pre-web days, got into broadcast production and design working
for
Channel 4, LWT and Sky, and is now Creative Director for Broadband at
Telewest/Flextech. He has stopped performing stand-up comedy in dodgy
pubs
around town but still makes art films - his last exhibited work was
presented at Metamorphose, Centre d'art Contemporain de
Basse-Normandie.
Produced by Stephen Jeffery-Poulter. Stephen is the Convergence
Programme
Consultant for NMK and a Digital Content Consultant and is producing
Creative Alchemy in association with New Media Knowledge and BAFTA.
BAFTA Members Free
Non-Members £20
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Monday 17 June 7.00pm
The Princess Anne Theatre
Film Composition Masterclass
with Gabriel Yared and Jean Jacques Annaud
Composer Gabriel Yared (Betty Blue, The Lover, The Talented Mr Ripley,
The
English Patient) and Director Jean Jacques Annaud (The Lover, Enemy at
the
Gates, Seven Years in Tibet, The Name of the Rose) will talk about
their
careers and give advice to Film Composition Students from the Royal
College
of Music. Each student has composed music for a short clip from Fritz
Lang's Metropolis (1926), which will be performed by a 10-piece
ensemble on
stage. After each performance, the student will take the stage to talk
to
Gabriel and Jean Jacques about their work.
For the audience, this will be a wonderful opportunity to experience
how
music can change the atmosphere in a film, to hear live music and learn
from
a great composer and director.
Produced by Miguel Mera, Pathway Leader, Composition for Screen, Royal
College of Music
Café @ 195 will be open from 5.00pm - 7.00pm this evening.
BAFTA Members Free
Non-Members £10
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