BAFTA New Talent Awards Monday, 22 March 2010
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Friday night was the Scottish BAFTA New Talent Awards 2010. The ceremony was held in the Mitchell Theatre and had a lovely relaxed atmosphere. As nominees we felt well and truly supported by BAFTA. The picture shows the Scottish Chamber Orchestra‘s Lucy Perry, Helen Jackson of Binary Fable, and Jackie Arnott-Raymond of Front Page Design. Adam Brewster, as usual, is behind the camera.
Congratulations to May Miles Thomas, who pipped us to the Interactive award with her project The Devil’s Plantation. Thanks, May, for giving us a wee mention in your acceptance speech!
Funniest line of the evening went to Best Acting Performance winner Eric Robertson: “Finally, I’d like to thank whoever donated this suit to Oxfam”!
Making headlines Monday, 15 March 2010
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Thanks to the Edinburgh Evening News for featuring us in Friday’s paper. You can read the full piece online: “City’s online animation is up for Scots Bafta award“.
New BAFTA nomination! Wednesday, 3 March 2010
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The Lost Book has been nominated for a second BAFTA Scotland award. This time it’s a New Talent award, in the Interactive category. Nominations were announced last night at a do in the newly-opened (and rather swanky) Blytheswood Square Hotel in Glasgow.
One of the great pleasures of the nomination event was meeting the competition – the multi-talented May Miles Thomas of Elemental Films. May’s something of a legend – she swept the board at the BAFTA Scotland New Talent awards back in 2000 with the UK’s first digital feature film One Life Stand, which also won a Scottish Screen Outstanding Achievement Award.
May’s 2009 interactive project is The Devil’s Plantation:
The idea: to explore the Secret Geometry of Glasgow and find magic in ordinary places… Dear green place or derelict dystopia?
I’m planning to spend time this week properly exploring The Devil’s Plantation as it looks fantastic – why don’t you head over there and take a look?
Here’re some fuzzy snapshots of the evening (my mobile phone camera isn’t getting any better!). Left to right, there’s me with May, Elemental Films’ producer Owen with Lost Book sound designer Stephen, and me with Stephen.
Congratulations to Cybraphon! Monday, 9 November 2009
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We were at the BAFTA Scotland awards last night. It was a fabulously glittery evening and a great party. The bad news for us was that The Lost Book didn’t win the Interactive category – but the good news is that the award went to the lovely Cybraphon. Here we are with Cybraphon’s human representatives (who explained that Cybraphon couldn’t make it there due to a lack of casters!) and their BAFTA:
Other good news: Mick Cooke (our soundtrack competition guest judge) and Gili Dolev picked up the Animated Short award for the brilliant The Happy Duckling. Well done Mick and Gili!
In the news Monday, 26 October 2009
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Thanks to Laura Cummings and the Evening News for a wee mention in Saturday’s paper. It’s great to have support and coverage in Edinburgh’s press. The caption says “Delighted: Helen Jackson” which captures some of the jumping-about joy I’ve been expressing!
Read the piece online: Interactive animation ‘The Lost Book’ up for Bafta.
Interactive Friday, 23 October 2009
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It’s been quite a week! We’re still bouncing about with excitement after the BAFTA Scotland nomination. I thought you might like to see the other nominees in the Interactive category – after all, if you like The Lost Book, you might like them.
In alphabetical order, then, first up is British Music Experience. I have to confess to knowing next to nothing about the project – according to the website it’s “Britain’s new interactive museum of popular music” at The O2, where you can “explore, play, sing and dance your way through 60 years of British music history”. Gotta be fun!
The other contender is Cybraphon, a local project. Cybraphon is essentially a cabinet that plays music (the artists, Edinburgh-based collective FOUND, describe it as “an autonomous, emotional robot band”). But, and here’s the fun bit, Cybraphon has moods which define what tunes it plays. Cybraphon’s moods are dependent on how much it’s being talked about online. If it were plugged in at the moment (which apparently it isn’t) this blog post would no doubt cheer it up!
The awards ceremony is on Sunday 8th November 2009 and we’re up against worthy opponents. Hope you enjoy exploring British Music Experience and Cybraphon – but keep your fingers crossed for us!
Nominated for a BAFTA Scotland award! Monday, 19 October 2009
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Great news: The Lost Book has been nominated in the Interactive category for the BAFTA Scotland Awards 2009!
This nomination is for everyone involved in The Lost Book, and that includes all of you who took part in writing the story. Here’s our entry form – we made sure you were listed in the credits:
Shortlisted for an Arts & Business award! Friday, 3 July 2009
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Good news! The Lost Book, and our lovely sponsors Front Page Design, have been shortlisted for the Arts & Business Scotland Small Business Award.
Many thanks to all at Front Page, particularly Jackie Arnott-Raymond, for your support.
Winners will be announced at an award ceremony at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, on 1st October 2009.
The Lost Book is an animated web series where you wrote the plot.
