BAF: Mark Bithell

At the Bradford Animation Festival our first talk was with Mark Bithell, famous for his the indie game 'Thomas was alone' he mostly discussed his new project 'Volume' which is a modern take of Robin Hood, like me he said he is a huge fan of Tony Stark and said that was one of the reasons he made the character Alan-a-dale an AI, much like Jarvis. He explained as in all adaptions from tales, you simply take what is crucial and the parts you like, you have to make it your own or all interpretations would be the same, he took what was recently relevant from the myth in terms of the state of the government, and quoted Russell Brand's recent interview with Jeremy Paxman, saying the idea of over throwing the government and revolution is a heavy inspiration in the game, i found this highly relevant to my film as it is directly involved in what he is talking about (he even mentions Tony Stark, the lead character in my film.) and his disription of how he interprets a story is helpful for me in future projects.