Following the collaborative steers of the Science Museum and Framestore, AY-PE concepted, cast, filmed, edited and post-produced the ship’s AI guide ALANN, a supportive yet inquisitorial character. ALANN appears nine times across the Azimuth, introducing sci-fi concepts to visitors and continually assessing human actions, evidence and science research. As well as supporting with script advice to the design team, AY-PE also worked with the symbols and alien language of the designers, incorporating that into AY-PEs retro-modern CGI motion graphics and effects, to build the ship’s interface around ALANN. This UI features across most other AV exhibits, as the ALANN system draws on its collection of research on humans.

Four bespoke mixed media films were created incorporating in studio and remote filming of experts and influencers. Designed under the conceit of being the alien ship’s research assets, the design of each film all fit within the ship’s ‘UI’ motion graphic wrapper. However the ‘hook’ into each film varies. For some eg Gene Editing or Algorithmic Bias, the scientists are called up by the ship as it along with the visitor, learns the principles involved. Or the ship ‘finds’ a film featuring Tilly Lockey, to help it and the visitor consider ‘bionic’ humans.

A multitude of sci-fi film, game and art edits were put together by AY-PE to extend the ship’s collection of research assets further and provide the visitor with snapshots of the breadth and cultural coverage which science fiction can come from, and how we can better protect out planet by learning from it.