Nothing to be Written

Synopsis

Part artwork, part documentary, NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN tells the stories behind ‘field postcards’ one of the few communication options WWI soldiers had with their families. Nothing was to be written on them, communication was only allowed through the prescribed phrases. Moving, haunting and emotive, an award-winning exploration of the human stories beyond the edges of the postcards set to an original score by composer Anna Meredith, commissioned by the BBC VR Hub and created by 59 Productions.
Official Selection SXSW 2019 - Virtual Cinema Competition
http://www.bbc.co.uk/postcard

Details

Year

2018

Type of film

Shorts

Running Time

6 mins 32 secs

Format

Virtual Reality (VR)

Director

Lysander Ashton

Producer

Rebecca Collis

Executive Producer

Zillah Watson

Screenwriter

Mark Grimmer

Production Designer

Molly Einchcomb

Sound

Audio Edit: Mike Hatch, Floating Earth; VR Sound Recording, Design and Mix: Tom Parnell, Jack Reynolds BBC R&D

Music

Anna Meredith; Music: Recorded live at the BBC Proms, July 2018; Sakari Oramo; BBC Symphony Orchestra, leader Stephen Bryant; BBC Proms Youth Ensemble; National Youth Choir of Great Britain

Lead Animators

David Curtis, Marco Sandeman

Animators

Laurent de Vleeschouwer, Chris Stoneman

VR Development

All Seeing Eye

Genre

Production status

Complete

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Last updated 22nd May 2019