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Pushing the Envelope
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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.


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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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