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:
It seems like only last week we were getting ready for BAP 2011, the Planetaria event of the year for the UK and ROI. We’ve now had time to recover and reminisce over the events of the second weekend in September.
It was an early start for the astrochaps and chappettes of NSC Creative; we brought along new-girl Megan from the NSC Education Team for her first taste of BAP!
Our big news was official announcements and the screening of teaser trailers for ASTRONAUT 3D and We Are Aliens! They looked great on the Liverpool dome and were received with much excitement. A first for us was the screening of the in-production Fulldome film Cell! Cell! Cell! The content was still at “block-test” level but it was a great opportunity to get some feedback from the people who will hopefully be showing the film to the public and schools when it is finished. Despite our nerves of showing something that normally only the production team would see to so many people it was a great success and most people walked out of the dome genuinely having learnt something new!
The rest of the weekend was a lot of fun with some really interesting talks and demonstrations, great food and drink and the company of wonderful people. We can’t wait till next time, we have a feeling it will be a little closer to home also…
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.
We had a fabulous time at the ECSITE conference at the amazing new Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw. Not only do they have great exhibits including a robotic theatre, but they’ll also soon be showing two of our Fulldome shows “We Are Astronomers” and “Astronaut” in their state-of-the-art planetarium!
The conference was attended by over 800 people from science centres, museums, zoos, aquariums, universities and research organisations from around the world. Even President Obama made an appearance (but not at the conference unfortunately).
We met colleagues old and new and got some great feedback and interest in our new productions; a stereoscopic version of “Astronaut” and a new character driven Fulldome show on genetics explaining in our own unique style how all 70 trillion cells in our body are connected and how they work together to allow us to exist. Coming Summer 2012!
It was the 10th Birthday of the National Space Centre, Leicester at the end of June (wow, doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun!). To mark the occasion, the various teams that inhabit the building attached alongside the infamous rocket tower were set the task of creating something special for a birthday event held for employees past and present to attend; this of course meant creating some Fulldome magic here in the Studio.
We created a 360 degree immersive journey back to the opening of the centre and through its key moments over the years. There was a special section dedicated to staff members past and present and then onto a retrospective of NSC Creative’s 10 years of digital planetarium shows. The finale was a digital Fulldome firework display which was the perfect warm up to the real thing that blasted off outside over our rocket tower to end a marvelous evening.
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.
It’s always so exciting going to a place for a first time and that’s what “We Are Astronomers” will be doing when it’s premiered in Portugal at IFF 2011.
IFF (Immersive Film Festival) is taking place from 29 April to May 1 at Centro Multimeios Espinho, Portugal. Sadly, none of the NSCC team will be going there physically but we will be there in spirit. We hope the festival is a massive success, Immerse Yourself!
We also have the short dome piece “Astronomer 2.0″ in the competitive section which is adapted from “We Are Astronomers”.
Check it out here but obviously it is much more awesome in a dome!
If you’re lucky enough to attend IFF we’d love to know what you think of “We Are Astronomers”. Comment on our blog or you can head on over to http://weareastronomers.com/
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