
198 - Blue Flame
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Banner image - Studio Ghibli character Calcifer
Today I had a meeting with Rich Lloyd from Blue Flame Digital. We met up at the Everyman Cinema, just round the corner from The Old Fire Station enterprise offices in Salisbury. The cinema staff were really helpful and turned the music off in one of the lounge rooms for us. It's so lush in the Everyman. Velvety plush.
As I worked at the enterprise centre for a couple of years, it was great to see Rich again and talk about something arty.
I'm trying, in a short space of time (and between listing things on eBay), to get my head around what is special about immersive and exactly what I would ask of a digital production company like Blue Flame.
Immersive Arts provided a fascinating video introduction to the potential of immersive (especially the second half).
It's very interesting how some immersive experiences break down the barriers in your brain so that you become 'in the flow' or 'in the moment'. You are very alert and aware of what is going on.
A lot of the animations, TV and books that I like best take the viewer / reader / participant through some kind of portal into another world. It's a kind of neutral space. Or perhaps it's a catalyst. A mixing of magic that changes things.
Wizard of Oz: swept up in a hurricane.
Alice in Wonderland: falling down a rabbit hole.
Narnia: through the wardrobe.
Spirited Away - through a tunnel.
Well that's as far as I have got. Oh and everything is alive on the other side. Even a flame is a character - Studio Ghibli's fire demon Calcifer in Howl's Castle.