Written by Walter Stabb The micro-short How To Be Good was conceived as an exploration into Virtual Production (VP) that could inform and develop an understanding of how academics, practitioners and students can engage with and harness this new film making technology in their projects. With finite resources successful student…

Written by Alison Cross The role of production designer as I teach it, starts with the script and imaginatively creating the appropriate world for that story to inhabit. Having the world offered as a virtual package goes beyond ‘finding a good location’ and initially feels like a loss of imaginative…

Written by Dr Jodi Nelson-Tabor & Peter Bathurst A Director’s role is to set the artistic direction of the production and guide their Heads of Department (HoDs) on how to achieve it. Alongside deciding on shots and angles, directors oversee casting, set design, and musical score. …

Written by Ian Thompson Recording and designing sound for the micro short film ‘How to Be Good’ (H2BG) involved a similar strategy to pre-visualisation, in that sounds to accompany computer-generated location images were created during pre-production. …

Written by Peter Bathurst Virtual Production (VP) is a hot topic right now and one that seems to have captured the imagination of the film industry especially since the release of The Mandalorian. The objective here is to explore and explain some of the basic tenets of the process with…

June 15, 2021 Written By Dr Lindsay Keith Earlier in Part 1 of this strand, we looked at the role of the Producer on a Virtual Production. The role of a Line Producer in film (and similar to the role played by Production Managers in broadcast) is also there to…

June 14, 2021 Written by Dr Jodi Nelson-Tabor The role of a Producer across any of the creative sectors (i.e games, film, apps, commercials, immersive media) always involves a multitude of tasks, specialised skills and exemplary organisational talent. Virtual Production is no different. However, in this new landscape of film…

Written by Dr Jodi Nelson-Tabor Emerging technologies and digital disruption has impacted the film industry in ways that are pushing the boundaries of creativity and technical innovation. But is it the magic bullet the media makes it out to be? Or is it merely the next evolution of filmmaking? Against…