UWS Symposium: Immersive Filmmaking

Saturday 18th March, Glasgow Short Film Festival

With the support of the MeCCSA Practice Network

https://glasgowfilm.org/glasgow-short-film-festival/shows/symposium-immersive-filmmaking

Increasing numbers of narrative filmmakers and moving image artists have begun to explore the potential of VR and 360° filmmaking, finding ways to structure narratives and create experiences that incorporate the unique sense of agency that VR affords the viewer/participant.

In collaboration with the GSFF, the Creative Media Academy at the University of the West of Scotland, presents a symposium exploring the challenges of VR storytelling, interactivity and the psychology of immersion. This free event is open to anyone with an interest in the potential of recent technological advances to tell stories in new immersive ways.

The symposium compliments the GSFF Virtual Movie House that features the work of several of the speakers at the symposium as well as the premiere of the UWS Creative Media Academy's first 360 VR film, The Circuit. http://glasgowfilm.org/glasgow-short-film-festival/shows/vr-movie-house-nc-15

11.00   Introduction: 
Nick Higgins (director, UWS Creative Media Academy) & Matt Lloyd (director of GSFF)

11.15 – 12.45 Panel 1: Immersive Futures

Chair: Professor Nick Higgins (University of the West of Scotland)

Immersive: Design Realities
Damien Smith, Creative Director, ISO Design 
Immersive: Science and Simulation
Paul Chapman, Acting Head of the School of Simulation and Visualisation, Glasgow School of Art
Immersive: Broadcast Television
Jack-Kibble White, Digital Development Executive, BBC Scotland
Immersive: Branded Experiences
Greg Williamson, Senior VR and Creative Consultant, Soluis

12.45 – 14.15 Break for lunch, opportunity to experience some of the VR projects under discussion

14.15 – 15.45  Panel 2: Virtual Reality Experiments

Chair: Dr. Julie Williamson (University of Glasgow)

Virtual Reality & Dance
Christopher Hampson, Creative Director, Scottish Ballet
Virtual Reality & Education
Nick Higgins, director, The Circuit, Director of UWS Creative Media Academy
Virtual Reality & Theatre
Toby Coffey, Head of Digital Development, National Theatre

16.00 – 17.30 Panel 3: Immersion, Empathy & Affect 

Chair: Professor Nick Higgins (University of the West of Scotland)

Visual Artists & Virtual Reality
Dennis & Debbie Club, visual artists, creators of GSFF's VR Movie House
Documentary Filmmaking & Virtual Reality
Darren Emerson, director, Indefinite, VR City, London
Fiction Filmmaking & Virtual Reality
Pierre Zandrowicz, director I Philip, Okio Studio, Paris
Virtual Reality & the Viewer
Steye Hallema, Jaunt VR, the Netherlands






Professor Nick Higgins (MA, PhD)

Chair of Media Practice
Director of the Creative Media Academy

School of Media, Culture & Society

University of the West of Scotland

Room 3.090, Ayr Campus

University Avenue, Ayr, KA8 0SX


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