Yesterday two projects I'm very proud of were nominated for a BAFTA Craft award in the Digital Creativity category: Misfits and Dreams of Your Life.
Misfits is a gift to work with; the energy, creativity and downright filthy humour of the show give us lots of opportunities to bring it to life online. More importantly, the show's creators at Clerkenwell Films have embraced the notion of "doing multiplatform", creating a dedicated team who are on board from the outset. For the last season we also launched Misfits: Community Service, a mobile game developed by the very talented Mobile Pie team, with consultant support from Nicholas Lovell. There's a ton of Misfits multiplatform stuff out there, but you can start exploring on E4.com, FB and Twitter, and the game is on iTunes.
Dreams of Your Life was an entirely different project. Developed to be an online response to Carol Morley's documentary Dreams of a Life, it was developed by the clever folks at Hide&Seek in collaboration with A.L. Kennedy and Lottie Davies. I am most definitely understating it when I say that trying to distill the essence of a challenging story into something that isn't a game has been a challenge. Margaret Robertson has written and spoken about the process eloquently, and I think it's always better to hear from the people who actually made the thing rather than the hand-wavy commissioning ed, so have a read of her posts part 1, 2 and 3. I think that the team delivered something beautiful and haunting. It is unlike anything else I've commissioned so far and I'm very proud of it.
Of course I'd love both projects to win - a big heavy mask would be an appropriate reward for all their hard work. But in my eyes a nomination is already a tip of the hat to good work well done, and an excuse to break out the champagne early.
