WAA showing @ JHWFF 03 – 07 October

October 3, 2011 4:14 pm

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:

Monday 3 October          13.00

Tuesday 4 October          10.30

Wednesday 5 October    13.30

Thursday 6 October        13.30

We hope you enjoy the show!

BAP 2011 this weekend!

September 8, 2011 9:27 am

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!

WAA a finalist in Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival

August 15, 2011 10:18 am

‘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.

Official press release here >

More info about the festival here http://www.jhfestival.org/

Focus Group Needed

July 26, 2011 6:33 pm

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”.

IFF 2011, the results are in… We Are Winners!

May 20, 2011 3:02 pm

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.

NSC Creative on the road

May 13, 2011 12:17 pm

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…

Leicestershire Creative Business of the Year 2011

May 12, 2011 7:08 pm

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.

We Are Astronomers @ IFF 2011

April 26, 2011 1:28 pm

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/

NSC Creative on tour @ Ecsite 2011

April 20, 2011 12:08 pm

We’re unleashing the fabulous Ruth Harvey on Warsaw, Poland for Ecsite 2011 25 – 28 May.

Ecsite is The European Network of Science Centres and Museums so there are going to be all kinds of crazy cats there including; peeps from Science Centres, Museums, Science Festivals, Natural History museums, zoos, aquariums, universities and research organisations to name but a few.

If you’d like to discuss how we can create new awesome content for you be sure to talk to Ruth at the event. If you’re not lucky enough to be in Poland then our door is always open, contact us and we can arrange a meeting at our Studio based at the National Space Centre, UK.

Fulldome UK… The aftermath!

April 6, 2011 4:45 pm

On the 12 and 13 March we attended Fulldome UK 2011. We’d brought an offering of ‘We Are Astronomers’ and Max Crow who did a marvellous job of talking about Storytelling in the dome.

Screengrab from Max’s “unique” presentation!

It was the first Fulldome event for some of the team so they’ve been interrogated and here are some of their thoughts:

“It was great to see what else is out there, how other studios (and individuals) are using the dome, initially on a traditional astronomy front, but secondly on a level of celebration, using the canvas in different, creative ways.” Austin Durose

“I think it would be ace for the recorded Workshops to be uploaded to youtube or vimeo. People who were there can review them and see the ones that they missed. Also at the same time it becomes a resource for other people to learn about Fulldome and acts as a way of promoting Fulldome and the event.” Liam Wardle

“Fulldome UK was a good opportunity for me to see NSC Creative’s work within the context of a much wider community, a community I previously didn’t really know existed. Seeing a wide range of work, commercial, artistic, technical demos and student alike, furthered my own understanding of Fulldomes capabilities. Alien Action, Jeepers Creepers, The Royal Pea, Fractals, Nano Cam and the Best of the Jena Fulldome Festival Reel where my highlights.” Ian Smith

There were some insightful talks on the history of projection, the language of immersive cinema, the challenges of bringing dance into the dome and some interesting tech demonstrations.

There were lots of new things to see in the dome so we’ve chosen our favourite from each day (and no, we are not allowed to choose our own show!).

Our winners for ‘Best Fulldome Thing of the Day’ were:

Alien Action – Saturday 12 March.

Rising (From Jena Best of Showreel) – Sunday 13 March.

Others worth a special mention were: Nanocam, Dynamic Earth (WIP excerpts), Jeepers Creepers and SpacePark360.

Alien Action is also our WINNER OF THE WEEKEND! This was way ahead in votes from our team and definitely the most memorable film of the weekend (partially because a few members of the team were singing along!)

There are some more snaps from our time at the festival over on our Facebook page here >

Thanks to the Fulldome UK team and ThinkTank for putting on a great event, roll on Fulldome UK 2012.