A Portsmouth Novel – by Matt Wingett
The Aaargh of Form-Filling! The size of Roy’s conception for The Snow Witch meant we couldn’t do it if we didn’t have Arts Council England funding. The application forms to obtain funding are notoriously tortuous. They are couched in project management jargon which appears to be deliberately exclusive – and to someone not steeped in …
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So, what next?!? With Roy Hanney’s approach to me to use The Snow Witch as the basis of a brand new transmedia story, we had to work out what to do next. We had the general idea we wanted to produce something. Now we began to fill out a new story. So, what was Roy’s …
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A little bit of magic? Something was definitely going on with The Snow Witch. At the novel’s launch in 2017, a friend of mine, Eilis Philips sang a song inspired by an earlier draft of the book. A song of snow, witchcraft and the wicked things people do, it touched on the many points in …
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Some time in the autumn of 2018, Roy Hanney, course leader in Media Production at Southampton Solent University told me over a glass of wine: “I’ve been thinking about your book, The Snow Witch, and I’d like to ask you if we can extend it and use it as the basis of a transmedia storytelling …
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Thank you so much to the artists who came to the second call for artists on 22nd July at Hunter Gatherer, Southsea. It was a warm evening, and I really appreciate you making the effort to come. I promised you and earlier artists who’ve signed up that I would put together a document for you …
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