Immersive Fiction Lab Immersive Event

Immersive Fiction Lab

The Immersive Fiction Lab is a talent development programme for creatives exploring humour in XR.

Guisborough ,   England

Experience hosted by Crossover Labs

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XR isn’t funny. Time to fix that. The Immersive Fiction Lab is a talent development programme for creatives exploring humour in XR. During a 6 day “hothouse” lab, participants will evolve their project concepts into market ready proposals and deepen their understanding of how humour works in XR storytelling. Along the way, participants will be carefully guided by a team of expert industry mentors from XR, comedy, theatre, film, games and scriptwriting. The lab will focus on developing existing projects, but will equip participants with Crossover’s adaptable toolkit of processes that can also be used into the future. Participants will leave the programme equipped to seek financing for their project with a carefully honed pitch and proposal document to accompany a well developed concept that finds the funny in XR. The programme will culminate in a closed pitch to an invited audience of funders, producers, exhibitors, market organisers and distributors during an online session to receive feedback and launch their projects as they go on to seek prototype or project funding. This programme is open to writers, directors, artists or producers who are developing their first, second or third immersive fiction experience. Applicants must apply with a project that sits within a category of genre fiction such as: comedy, sci-fi, horror, crime, ect. It is essential that the project uses humour within its narrative. Immersive Fiction Lab is delivered by Crossover Labs, through the BFI Creative Challenge Fund, made possible with National Lottery funding.... Show More

Audience Role

Immersive Fiction Lab is a residential workshop programme which will take place at Gisborough Hall Hotel in North Yorkshire from 22-28 November. A maximum of 2 team members per project can attend for whom travel, accommodation and meals are all included. Participants will also be paid a daily stipend of £110 for each day of the programme (a total of £715 per person for the 6.5 day programme).... Show More

Content Advisories

  • No content advisories

  • 18 +

Interaction Advisories

  • No physical contact with performers

Mobility Advisories

  • No mobility advisories

  • Event is wheelchair accessible.

Free

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Location

Crossover Labs

Hosting immersive events on EI since August, 2024

We believe in the power of unconventional media to create transformational experiences for broad audiences. To achieve this, we nurture a diverse network of creators, thought-leaders and technologists of all ages, abilities, persuasions, cultures and gender expressions in Britain and beyond. Crossover Labs have over 15 years experience leading development labs at the intersection of film, art and technology. Our alumni have won and been nominated for a variety of awards including Emmy’s and BAFTA’s, and have gone on to occupy influential positions in arts and media internationally. Past participants have been invited to exhibit at major festivals and venues around the world and have subsequently attended programmes at Sundance New Frontier Lab, MIT Open Doc Lab, Venice Biennale College, ONX in New York, and marketplaces at Sunny Side of the Doc, New Images, IDFA Forum, Venice Market, Tribeca Producers Market and Geneva Digital Market.... Show More