Dolby Animated Film Escape World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival
April 23 2017 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
Original soundtrack composed by the
Grammy-winning singer Imogen Heap
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:DLB) today announced that its
short animated film Escape, a sequel to two-time Daytime Emmy
Award-winning short Silent, premiered
at the Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday, April 22, 2017 in New
York. Chosen for the Tribeca short film category out of a record
number of 4,385 submissions, Escape is the story of a lone space
explorer who crash-lands on a desolate planet and must find a way
to make her new home habitable.
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On Saturday, April 22, 2017, Escape, one
of the most anticipated animated short films premiered at the
Tribeca Film Festival. Escape utilizes Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos
to present a euphoric vision of the future. The animated shorts
program selections were curated by Whoopi Goldberg. Pictured from
left to right, executive producer Vince Voron, producer and
screenwriter Angus McGilpin, composer Imogen Heap, actress and
comedian Whoopi Goldberg, score designer Nick Ryan, director
Brandon Oldenburg, and director Limbert Fabian. (Photo: Business
Wire)
“The film is a cinematic poem about the world-changing power of
invention and is a fitting sequel to Silent in which our character
experienced the evolution of film technology from the silent-film
era to the present day,” said Vince Voron, the film’s Executive
Producer and Vice President and Executive Creative Director of
Dolby Laboratories. “We have been investing in original branded
content to inspire our consumers, filmmakers and partners and
celebrate the powerful storytelling possibilities when art and
science come together.”
Dolby united the creative talents of Emmy® winning director
Limbert Fabian and Academy Award® winning co-director Brandon
Oldenburg, who represent the creative leadership of the newly
formed Flight School Studio, with the musical talents of Imogen
Heap, the only solo recording artist and also the first woman to
win a Grammy for engineering. In addition, Dolby’s Angus McGilpin
and Vince Voron, the team behind Silent, collaborated to bring
visual design and audio expertise to Escape.
Combining techniques such as miniatures and animation with the
spectacular imaging of Dolby Vision and the moving audio of Dolby
Atmos, Escape invites the audience to experience a joyous vision of
the future. With her love of technology and her passion for the
project, the Grammy-winning solo recording artist Imogen Heap
composed, performed and produced the song Magic Me for the film.
Heap added her amazing voice and music to an original soundtrack,
working alongside BAFTA winning sound designer Nick Ryan to mesh
the sound fx into the music, creating a truly unique listening
experience to complement the animation. Heap will release Magic Me
in conjunction with the film’s premiere.
“This was the first time I’d written a piece of work for an
animation. I was inspired by the challenge to craft a song with
locked picture combined with Dolby Atmos, where the elements on
screen become the fabric of the music,” said Imogen Heap. “The
crystals give rise to the melody and key, lava sparks become the
tempo, the cave becomes the reverb, the monster, the tension and
the struggle for our heroine shape the musical dynamics.”
To create the beautiful and dynamic world, the team developed a
model of the planet’s landscape that was designed to combine
purposeful structures with organic, vine-like elements in a way
that permitted light to flow throughout the space. The film avoids
dialogue and instead uses facial expressions, visual effects and
music to communicate with a global audience, making sound an
integral part of the movie experience.
Escape is now available to view online via YouTube.
About Dolby Laboratories
Dolby Laboratories (NYSE:DLB) creates audio, video, and voice
technologies that transform entertainment and communications in
mobile devices, at the cinema, at home, and at work. For more than
50 years, sight and sound experiences have become more vibrant,
clear, and powerful in Dolby. For more information, please
visit www.dolby.com.
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