Digifest 2025 Opener

This film was created for Digifest 2025, Jisc's flagship event in a buildup to the reveal of that years opening film. The sequence incorporated many of both the visual and storytelling themes of the opener. I wanted to use the opportunity to set the stage for a dramatic showing, and attempt to include small foreshadowing moments that the audience could look back on afterwards.

The grainy monochromatic style is based around the game of chess, and the dance between players as they try to emerge triumphant. The repeating patterns of squares, clock faces and monolithic shapes represent the board in a subtle and dramatic way.

The opening film that subsequetly follows this piece harks on the same story, about how the education sector is in a place where strategy matters, and visualising the route ahead is vitally important, more so now than ever.

Watch the sequence below: