Here at the NSC Creative HQ we like to refer to ourselves as the ‘Astrochaps’, and fill our lives with cosmic quests and galactic adventures. As the month of November is upon us we have taken a giant leap for chap-kind and decided to raise some money for the chaps of the Earth by growing a moustache. Yes… we are taking part in Movemeber.
Movember is responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men’s faces around the world. The aim of which is to raise vital funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer and other cancers that affect men.
On Movember 1st, guys register at Movember.com with a clean-shave face and then for the rest of the month, these selfless and generous men, known as Mo Bros, groom, trim and wax their way into the annals of fine moustachery. Mo Sistas are the women who register to support the men in their lives, raising funds by seeking sponsorship for their Mo-growing efforts.
Roll up, roll up, the chance of a life-time is now available to come and work for NSC Creative!
We are looking to fill not one but two very different positions.
We require a Junior CG Artist to join us and work on exciting immersive projects. A strong generalist is required who has an excellent foundation in CG film making, a desire to get involved in all aspects of the production process and a hunger to learn more*.
The other opening is for an experienced Front-end web developer/designer. Now that may sound like a bit of a mouth full but basically we need a totally awesome web person who knows their CSS3 from their back-end. If you’re a coder with a flair for design or an artist with a logical and rational coding side then get in touch asap.
It’s in the top three for ‘Best Fulldome Program’ and this week ‘We Are Astronomers’ will be showing daily for attendees of the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. This is the first year JHWFF has had a category specifically for Fulldome productions.
For all you JHWFF attendees, ‘We Are Astronomers’ will be showing in EarthMatters dome at the following times:
We hope that no-one has forgotten that this weekend is BAP 2011 which is being hosted at the World Museum, Liverpool. Members of the NSC Creative team will be in attendance with some mega exciting announcements to make.
We hope you’ll join us there and please come and say hi if you do, we don’t bite, honest!
‘We Are Astronomers’ has succeeded in proceeding to the final three of the newly created ‘Best Fulldome Program’ category of the prestigious Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. The awards are an annual event held in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA.
The entries this year included 510 films from 30 countries; more than 60 judges whittled down the entries to leave three finalists in each category.
We will be in Wyoming for the festival 3-7 October so please get in-touch if you want to hook up and talk immersive films.
NSC Creative is currently in production on a brand new Fulldome film and we need YOU to help us make it even better.
We are holding a focus group in our home dome @ The National Space Centre, Leicester, UK.
Date: Saturday 30 July 2011
Time: 9.30am (prompt!)
Prize: Free family pass to visit the amazing National Space Centre
Age: 8 – 18 yrs
We are currently short on 12 – 18 year olds so if you fall in-to this category we’ll give you an extra high five if you can join us.
Places offered on a first come basis.
We will need you to watch the 25 minute film in our giant 18 metre digital dome and then answer some questions in a group for about 30 minutes. The evaluation sessions will be staggered so you might need to hang around until 1pm till we can release you but you will be able to wander around the space centre whilst waiting (we have rockets and everything).
If you are interested in this unique opportunity to help us make a super cool dome show then drop us your age, name, gender, contact number and name of a parent or guardian if you are under 16 on an email to web@nsccreative.com
Deadline for responses is 1pm Friday 29 July 2011 so get your skates on!
To whet your appetite the synopsis goes something like this:
“This is the story about how all 70 trillion cells in our bodies are connected and how they work together to allow us to exist.
A character driven adventure involving zoomascopes, shrinkatrons and roller skating, fire breathing tattoo artists! We travel into a cell to discover the secret of DNA, see a baby develop from a sperm and egg and explore the diversity of different cells in our body and how they all work together”.
We Are Astronomers reached for the stars and won big at this year’s Immersive Film Festival in Espinho, Portugal held between 29 April – 1 May 2011.
We Are Astronomers took home the honours of ‘Best Script’ and ‘Best of IFF’ in the long show category.
We’ve already received lots of lovely emails from new fans of the show that saw it for the first time at the event but do please get in touch if you want to share your love via Facebook or the dedicated website http://weareastronomers.com/
Here’s the IFF description of what the awards are all about:
‘Best of IFF’
This award will distinguish all main aspects of an Fulldome production such as: content, technical implementation, innovation, artistic achievement, production values, creativity, originality, narrative, design, entertainment value, and advancement of visualization in the artistic and scientific fields of Fulldome technologies.
‘Best Script’
This award will focus on the creativity, originality, design, entertainment value of the narrative, creating the best balance in storytelling.
Thank you to everyone involved in IFF 2011, the organisers, sponsors, jurors and of course the attendees. We hope to join you next year with new shows and shorts.
As a result of our epic ‘Creative Business of the Year Award’ win picked up at this years Leicestershire Business Awards we’ve been given the keys to a car branded with our logo on for a few days. I feel a roadtrip coming on…
We very proud to say that NSC Creative is Leicestershire Creative Business of the Year 2011! We beat off stiff competition to take home the award from the event which was held at De Montfort Hall in Leicester, UK on the 08/04/2011. The awards ceremony was the culmination of lots of hard work submitting applications, being interviewed and showing the judges our best creative and business skills.
Some of the key factors under consideration were:
Cutting edge creativity
Managerial and financial performance
Clear understanding of the market place
Potential for growth
The performance of the current business including sales and profit growth
Strategic vision for the business
It has always been our ambition to supply the highest-quality creative content to a diverse range of clients. We continue to expand our creative portfolio but this recognition as a successful business validates our hard work and that we are not just good at making pretty pictures!
Representing the team on the night was Paul, Aaron and Ruth who took one for the team and enjoyed a slap-up meal, entertainment from Rory Bremner and 1 or 3 celebratory glasses of wine.
If you’d like to see what the judges thought of us you can watch our nomination video below. It was produced for the awards ceremony by the organisers, enjoy.
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