The Straad Players

‘The Straad Players’ is a project developed by musician/composer Steve Thompson

Essentially it involves creating and performing plays in a virtual world (2nd Life) and making films. It allows participants to simulate many of the activities involved in creating productions and movies without the costs and many of the difficulties encountered in the real world. All of the following roles can be accommodated:

Actors, set designers, set builders, costume designers, script writers, camera crew, editors, post production,audio technicians, voice characterisations, director, musicians.

To get an idea of what it’s about check out the Straad promo movie below. For more information please contact Community Media Coordinator Steve Thompson or you may subscribe to the email list. Click here to read about the making of the promo movie.

A new movie is in production we have a tight production schedule so if you want to be involved please Steve Thompson or join the email list We’re working towards a screening of February 11th 2010 so we need to get cracking. The script is written and the set is mostly built. We have the full backing for this from Cleveland Police and some of the force including Inspector Ian (Charlie) Bell who will take a leading role.

We will be shooting through the first 2 weeks in January. Please enter all times you could participate in the Doodle poll below. This could be by logging on to Second Life from wherever you are or by coming into our labs at Teesside University. PLEASE ENTER AS MANY DATES AS YOU CAN – WE WILL NOT BE DOING ALL THE DATES – JUST THE MOST POPULAR.