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A ground-breaking combination of live action drama and highly imaginative game design, Daedalus Hex offers a compelling storyline to engage young learners within a surreal, immersive environment.
Commissioned by the BBC from an original pitch, Daedalus Hex is exemplary of the next-generation of interactive storytelling.
As part of Guardian Unlimited’s coverage of the Rugby World Cup, Magic Lantern are producing a series of weekly vodcasts with Australian legend Michael Lynagh and Michael Aylwin from the Observer. We were charged with providing a comprehensive yet byte-sized show discussing the tournament for both Guardian readers and iTunes viewers.
One of two major commissions for the BBC, this is a feature length interactive drama that challenges 7-9-year-olds to learn maths through creative problem solving in an immersive game world. Initially commissioned by BBC jam and now available to international markets.
ER (distributor of Postman Pat, Basil Brush and others) commission to adapt existing programming and create new programming for the rapidly growing new media market. Through fun activities, incidental learning and explorative play, the sites aim to empower children to develop media literacy, reflective skills and above all to have fun!
The company behind this innovative new Internet TV application needed help to launch the beta version of their product and communicate with potential content owners. Playing to Magic Lantern's strengths in creative development, video production and website design together we created branding idents, an introductory video and a new-look website.
The organisers of this prestigious annual event turned to us to create a new media-rich website. For the first time the festival could harness the power of the internet to communicate with their audience. We run the registration process and the site features online streaming of sessions and daily video highlights.
When C4 wanted ideas on the future of documentaries in the age of the broadband, our answer was FourDocs. Working with Patrick Uden we created, scripted, shot, edited, designed, coded and managed somewhere for people to learn about, watch and make short documentary films. We continue to run this service.
An interactive film project commissioned by the Department of Education to encourage people to learn by pursuing their passions and by harnessing the power of technology. It features a series of brief encounters between inspiring and aspiring individuals such as Sir Trevor Macdonald, designer Sir Paul Smith, and film director Anthony Minghella.
We worked with Kudos and the BBC to recreate the on-screen 70s aesthetics that fans loved. While fulfilling fans' demand for information, the site's conceptual core was original video packages that mixed archive 70s footage with clips from the show, blending them to deepen users' immersion in the Life On Mars world.
We created an interactive online experience to accompany the BBC Radio 2 documentary Malcolm McLaren: The Game, produced by Sony award winning Just Radio, in which McLaren time-travels through an imaginary version of Paris. We built a personalised journey where users create their own experience, based on the radio programme's creative soundscape. We built three-dimensional interactive sound visualization, where Malcolm's voice generates shapes, particles and flame effects in sync to his audio presentation and the accompanying soundscape and, within this, sound visualisation video clips of McLaren projected onto 3D shapes. It's an abstract, ambitious creation that defies explanation, go and experience it for yourself