Schedule 2021
9:30-9:45
9:45-10:00
Virtual doors open
Welcome
Professor Duncan Petrie
10:00-11.10
Panel 1: Communities
Paper 1: First-person point of view: attention and distraction in a survey of live and live-streamed theatre audiences
(Paula van Beek, Whiteria Stage and Screen programme, Te Auaha: NZ Institute of Creativity)
Paper 2: A Word In Your Ear: Reimagining Community Drama as Site-Specific Audio Drama (Kate Valentine, TFTI, UoY)
Paper 3: "What do you miss most?” - An interactive theatre performance using Twine
(Dominic Chamayou-Douglas, TFTI, UoY)
Panel Chair: Dr Emma Pett
11.20-12.55
Panel 2: Gender & Identity
Panel Chair: Professor Kristyn Gorton
Paper 1: Women on the Edge: Feminism and Selfhood in Mystery Television
(Sarah Lahm, TFTI UoY)
Paper 2: Storytelling and Cultural Identity in Arab Animation
(Tala Linjawi, TFTI, UoY)
Paper 3: Truth Justice, and her Feminine Wiles: The Effect of Female Agency on Justice in American Conspiracy Film
(Tracy Matthewson, TFTI, UoY)
Paper 4: I Still Believe in Heroes': Creating a Contemporary Mythology in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
(Irene Zarza Rubio, TFTI, UoY)
13.00-14.00
Lunch Break
14.00-15.35
Session 3: Communication & Inclusivity
Panel Chair: Dr Mariana Lopez
Paper 1: Real-time audio description for live streamed games: an early Minecraft prototype
(David Libeau, TFTI UoY)
Paper 2: How to tackle the challenges of Audio Description for television in Thailand (Kulnaree Sueroj, TFTI, UoY)
Paper 3: "And in This Corner...": A Review of the Unwavering Character Types in the Sports Feature Film (Jacob Mulgrew, TFTI, UoY)
Paper 4: Sports Commentary on Football Clubs’ Live-stream Channels: A case study of Liverpool vs Chelsea (4th March, 2021)
(Siqi Liu, TFTI, UoY)
15.45-16.55
Session 4: New Technologies
Panel Chair: Dr Debbie Maxwell
Paper 1: Digitising Theatre: A Foundation Framework Design Guide for Translating Theatre Theory into VR (Daniel Lock, TFTI, UoY)
Paper 2: Sonic Interaction in Immersive Theatre Performance
(Xiaojie Xie, TFTI, UoY)
Paper 3: Arts Based Community Making During a Global Pandemic - Improvisation Across the Lifespan (Jemma Llewellyn / Ben Finley / Reza Yazdanpanah, University of Guelph, Canada)
Key Note Speakers
17.15-18.15
'A digital Dream'
(George Simons - Producer RSC & Dr Jonathan Freeman - Goldsmiths, University of London)