Immersive Encounters
Stornaway.io Films
People are using Stornaway to make interactive films of all kinds.
Since we launched in May last year, we have seen producers in 150 countries using Stornaway to make interactive video experiences for Film, TV and Games as well as Marketing, Education and on YouTube.
These are interactive films in many genres that all have one thing in common - the audience are brought into the room to choose what happens next.
To celebrate a year since we launched our software and our company based in beautiful Bristol (just a stone’s throw from Encounters headquarters), we wanted to share and celebrate some of the projects that have been made by independent producers - many of them in lockdown on very small budgets.
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
BY JOSEFINE MIDTGAARD, HANNA SZWEBS AND LAURA BONDE PEDERSEN
DENMMARK // 2021
This short horror is the disturbing story of a young woman in Copenhagen who’s just moved into a new apartment far away from family and friends. To her dismay, her life isn’t as easy as imagined, as she becomes witness to strange and ominous things happening around the apartment, which she suspects is related to an old nordic mythical creature called Draugur…
FIND ME A GIRLFRIEND
BY SOMRIDDHO DASGUPTA;
ACTOR: HELENA COLLINS.
UK // 2021
Find Me a Girlfriend is an interactive film that replicates the format of a video game to explore issues such as internalised homophobia and fetishisation within the LGBTQIA+ community. The film embarks on this exploration with the characters, Sam and Alexa.
While the former is butch and the latter more feminine, neither are exempt from the aforementioned issues faced by queer people from their own community regularly.
These issues are introduced to the audience in a video game format, giving them the power to choose how they deal with this.
Choose the right option and you might just win the game. Choose the wrong option and you would be given the options to either rectify your mistake or restart the game.
The first option proves helpful to make the player aware that a certain situation is a problem within the queer community and hence, they need to act appropriately to solve the problem. This option is useful to educate those who were not aware of the problem to begin with.
SELECT A QUEST
BY PINS AND NEEDLES PRODUCTIONS
UK // 2021
Aimed at ages 6+ and made at the start of lockdown in only 72 hours (!) by Pins and Needles theatre company on a tiny budget with 27 scenes and 9 actors filming from home. You’ve fallen through a time portal and find yourself in 1971 at Quest Camp, deep in the heart of the Freaky Forest – the UK’s most cursed forest.
Can you survive the Freaky Forest and find Captain Jenny’s whistle before nightfall?
PANDEMIOZA
BY WOJCIECH JEŻOWSKI, BLACK RABBIT
POLAND // 2021
Pandemioza is a modern, interactive audiobook that draws inspiration from life to take audiences on a journey through the typical day of someone trying to survive another month in lockdown.
Jezowski decided to collect and publish his thoughts on forced isolation and its related troubles featuring a cast of well-known Polish actors and actresses.
THE NEW NORMAL
BY DENISE NICOLAU AND FEDERICA LOMBARDI
ITALY // 2021
The pandemic changed the way we work and live. But is this the New Normal? An interactive research documentary on human behaviour and how we will react by Graphic Design Students based in Florence.
ABOUT STORNAWAY.IO
Stornaway.io is the universal editing platform for interactive filmmaking.
At its heart is a magically simple creative-friendly web application which lets creators plan, produce and publish interactive video stories and games - for delivery on the web, game platforms, interactive TV and thanks to the University of West of England’s Digital Innovation Grant - on YouTube!
You can sign up for free at www.stornaway.io
We launched in summer 2020, working with film and TV production companies, theatres and film schools developing interactive content for web and TV VOD platforms. We now have thousands of users all over the world - from big budget films and games destined for consoles and interactive cinema, to businesses using it for personalised training or marketing - as well as schools and universities for interactive film and game courses.
Before Stornaway.io, making interactive films has been incredibly hard and expensive for creative teams. Charlie Brooker, the writer and producer of Bandersnatch said it ‘was like doing a Rubix Cube inside your brain’
Stornaway.io was designed to fix this - a simple to use web software designed specifically for non-technical creatives and to complement traditional production workflows.
Please sign up for a free trial or contact hello@stornaway.io if you have any questions. .