New College Society Media Network Event
The closing date for this event has now passed.
The New College Society Media Network warmly looks forward to welcoming members to a fireside chat with Charlotte Mikkelborg - Director of the recently released Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - An Immersive Experience (see 15 second trailier here) and the first Apple TV Originals series for Apple Vision Pro, Adventure. Attendees will also get to experience a 15 minute episode of Adventure on the Vision Pro. Kindly hosted at the offices of Old Member Tim Malbon's company, Made by Many, Diespeker Wharf, 38 Graham Street, London, N1 8JX (map)
Coldplay was shot on a 15 camera set up during the bands's record breaking run at Wembley last summer while the Adventure series released 2024-25 takes you on powerful character driven narratives with some of the world's leading extreme sports atheletes, as they take on some of the most epic challenges of their careers. As the episodes are experienced within the Vision Pro headset in 8K resolution per eye, audiences get to feel like they are right there alongside the athletes, living every emotional beat, personally invested in their efforts.
Charlotte, who is the Director of the Series and head of the New College Media Network, will discuss the ‘making of’ the series but also what she believes developments like this mean for the future of entertainment more broadly. New College Old Member and former Network lead, Rod Henwood (1982) will chair the fireside chat.
The format of the evening will run as follows:
5.00pm-7.30pm
Networking, drinks, nibbles, and screening slots
7.30-8.30pm
Fireside chat with director
8.30-9.30pm
Final screening slots for anyone who did not manage to book one of the earlier slots.
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About the speaker:
A relentless innovator, Charlotte trained and then worked as a journalist after university, becoming the BBC Shanghai Correspondent a few years after graduation. Since 2009, she has been directing critically-acclaimed film and then immersive entertainment. Charlotte recently Coldplay: Music of the Spheres: An Immersive Experience, after having just completed Series Directing live action series ADVENTURE (Apple TV Originals for Apple Vision Pro, 2024-2025).
Previous work includes developing the TV series 'Changing Fortunes of the Mediterranean' (Ace Pictures Entertainment for Disney+) and her interactive/immersive work ranges from interactive live action (ESCAPE TO SHANGHAI, Official Selection SXSW 2024), to immersive dome experiences (THE JOURNEY, Cine Golden Eagle Award), to the world's first multi-sensory augmented reality narrative game TIME DETECTIVES (SXSW Innovation Award 2023) to real time rendered location based experience FLY created with Neil Corbould's Oscar winning special effects team (Gladiator, Gravity) and starring Joanne Froggatt (Downton Abbey). FLY had a sell-out run in London's Saatchi Gallery and was WINNER of the Lumieres Award Best VR Entertainment, WINNER Best Documentary Experience 2020 at Raindance Film Festival and WINNER Best Immersive experience 2020 as voted by the UK Government.
Lauded by Vice as one of the “female creators revolutionising how we see the world”. Charlotte first gained recognition as a BBC foreign correspondent but has more recently become known for her work directing and producing critically acclaimed film and immersive experiences. Charlotte has worked on projects for leading entertainment, technology, music, commercial and social impact clients including Apple, Meta, Disney, Coldplay, British Airways and the United Nations.
Charlotte is chair of the New College Media Network, a film mentor at SXSW, University College London's Immersive Media MA and previously the YouTube Creator's Lab.
Connect to Charlotte as @cmikkelborg on Insta or Charlotte Mikkelborg on Linkedin.
Photograph credit: Apple TV and Christian Black
