Vital Stories

Written August 2021 — the original announcement of Vital Stories receiving XR Stories funding. The project has since been performed live at the National Science and Media Museum and continues to develop.

My digital platform Vital Culture UKhas been awarded project funding by XR Stories, along with five other Storylab projects, developed from our Bradford XR FilmMakers masterclass, delivered in partnership with immersive specialists BRiGHTBLACK. 

The research and development projects support diverse, early-career individuals in the Leeds City region and aim to develop the storytellers’ skills by enabling them to deliver new immersive and interactive storytelling experiences.

Our project, ‘Vital Stories’ by myself andUrban Conceptz Theatre, is a live-streamed interactive short film/immersive game. Building on the storytelling styles of Swamp Motel and Artificial:Next, the project aims to take passive visual storytelling into an immersive experience for a digital audience. Through Twitch widgets and polls, users can choose, change and affect the drama and ambiance onscreen in real time.

The project themes have been heavily influenced by my Twitch audience.