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The Agenda can be downloaded as a PDF here.

The following Speakers have provided their presentations for download (click links for PDFs):

Manipulating Emotion in Film - What Games Can Learn from 100 Years of Cinema

The Value of Good Lighting

TameemsImages.pdf

Additional Photos from the event:

E-Motional Gaming Set on Flickr

E-motional Gaming - Creating Emotion in Games

Join us as we explore the issues around increasing the emotional sensitivity of digital entertainment.

Date: 13.45-17:30, Wednesday 4th June 2008
Venue: Kaetsu Centre, New Hall, Cambridge, CB3 0DF

Digital media is generally criticised for failing to deliver the depth of emotion provided by film and TV. The means by which Directors manipulate audience emotional reaction extends from the plot and the actors and is facilitated by environment, lighting and musical subtlety.

We have four speakers on this fascinating topic:

• Larry Sider from the influential ‘School of Sound’ will talk about how sound can impart emotion.
• Chris Doran, founder of Geomerics, will present the company’s advanced lighting technologies.
• Tameem Antoniades, Chief Designer of ‘Heavenly Sword’, will speak about the emotional sensitivity of digital entertainment: “There is no reason why we can’t turn games into a truly dramatic medium. We have the technology, we have the artistry. It is going to happen.”
• David Heinemann from the British Film Institute will be talking about manipulating emotion in film: what games can learn from a hundred years of audience feedback.

Click here for the draft agenda

Make a note in your diary and join us on 4th June 2008 for an engaging afternoon, with lots of opportunities for networking.