Wednesday, 17 October 2007

Who We Are

a fictional media company

VICE VENTURES

Executive Vice Capitalist Venture Chair
Clarissa Berkeley
Mandy Berry
venture.chair@fictionalmedia.co.uk

Communications Consultant, specialising in inspiring and creative positioning at executive level. Successful in achieving exclusive invisibility for her clients.

Executive Vice Chair Ventures
Dick Wadd
Tom Campbell
vice.chair@fictionalmedia.co.uk

Chronically unsuccessful venture capitalist whose reckless investments in ICT, media and entertainment start-ups have bankrupted investment firms on both sides of the Atlantic

PLAY

Executive Play Director
Dr Bill Savage
Tassos Stevens
bill.savage@fictionalmedia.co.uk

PhD Neuromedia and Bluesky. Developer: (In)visible Realities. Author: Cosmic Geste. Producer: An Hour Is The New Day. Progenitor & lead developer: BLAKE.

Executive Play Coordinator
Petra Ustinov
Anne Qaas
petra.ustinov@fictionalmedia.co.uk

Lead Play Developer
Jazz Le Whip
Jasmine El Mulki
jazz.lewhip@fictionalmedia.co.uk

Control Freak with sexual insatience, nokturnal, unkanny sense of humour. Hates bodily odours – or any sort of non-perfumed hint for that matter. No patience for “Les Ignorants”.

Senior Play Facilitator
Tiger Bridge III
Ollie Embden
tiger.bridge.III@fictionalmedia.co.uk

Junior Play Presenter
POSITION VACANT

Associate Play Analyst
Fanny Yoshikawa
Thayer Driver
fanny.yoshikawa@fictionalmedia.co.uk

Gothic hooker with a cynical wit. Famed for high profile clients, yet has never spilt the beans. Runs underground networks with objectives. A keen hacker and martial artist.

REALITY

Executive Reality Facilitator
Jim Rummy
Alex Fleetwood
jim.rummy@fictionalmedia.co.uk
Moderator of rec.hightable, Oxford University’s first online social network. BBC Trainee & part of Operation Birt. Tasked with next-gen BLAKE test to generate max PROS/EFF pre-IPO.

Executive Reality Presenter
Lena Parnett
Kate Hargreaves
lena.parnett@fictionalmedia.co.uk
Current credits: ‘Anchorface’ for FM, Reality Consultant for ‘Soho So Good’ Deducer/Provider ‘Carmen Delgado Debates’ for ABC1.

Lead Reality Editor
Elvissa Williams
Sophie Hammer
elvissa.williams@fictionalmedia.co.uk

Senior Reality Analyst
Steve Ackerman
Chris Skinner
steve.ackerman@fictionalmedia.co.uk

Junior Reality Designer
Jellybean Fredriksson
Joby Waldman
jellybean.fredriksson@fictionalmedia.co.uk

Assistant Reality Co-ordinator
Ray Wonder
Siddharta Lizcarno
ray.wonder@fictionalmedia.co.uk
Collaborative Social System Developer @ SunKiss. Author of: ”Haptic Interaction, Touchy Feely”. Constructed first V.R. glove aged 14.

Assistant Reality Developer
Minky Withers
Sophie Sampson
minky.withers@fictionalmedia.co.uk
Born in Rhodesia, has been married to some very important people. Interests include clothes, diamonds, cigarettes, dictators (isn’t power attractive…?) Used to moving at short notice.


SECURITY

Executive Security Director
Major Brian Cruikshank
Frank Boyd
major.cruikshank@fictionalmedia.co.uk
Served with the Scots Guards in the Falklands and 14th Intell in Ireland. Corporate experience on monitoring assignments with Kroll, Aegis Services and Carson Dyle.

Senior Security (HR) Analyst
Winston Whitesmoke
Johnny Lais
winston.whitesmoke@fictionalmedia.co.uk

Junior Security (HR) Coordinator
Bygnut Vomitspawn
Russell Finch
bygnut.vomitspawn@fictionalmedia.co.uk

Associate Audio (Security) Designer
Tobias von Carson
Toby Barnes
tobias.von.carson@fictionalmedia.co.uk

Assistant Audio (Security) Analyst
April Sinclair
Anna Wexler
april.sinclair@fictionalmedia.co.uk
Born in July to parents with an odd sense of humour. Works for Ministry of Defence on audio-related surveillance strategies.








MEDIA

Executive Media Co-Director
Yatima Skaffen
Dan Hon
yatima.skaffen@fictionalmedia.co.uk
Executive Producer: The Seattle Incident (2003), REDACTED (2001), various other special projects and government consultant.

Executive Media Co-Director
Dr. Henri Belloq
Adrian Hon
henri.belloq@fictionalmedia.co.uk
A disgraced archaeologist, formerly senior curator of antiquities at the Louvre, who claims to have found the site of King Solomon’s mines.

Lead Media Producer
Divina Cool
Shalinee Singh
divina.cool@fictionalmedia.co.uk

Senior Media Analyst
Juan Pescado-Frottage
Lou Thomas
juan.pescado-frottage@fictionalmedia.co.uk

Junior Media Researcher
Bernard Lavelle
Luke Mulhall
bernard.lavelle@fictionalmedia.co.uk

Assistant Media Director
Jupita C
Jie Qiong Liu
jupita.c@fictionalmedia.co.uk
Event Organizer for Communist party rallies in Shanghai. Currently organizing coffee at Starbucks in Palmers Green. At 5.55 an hour you have to really love coffee and big mugs to enjoy it as much as I do.

Assistant Media Facilitator
Gregory Wiez-Prattle
Alfie Boyd
gregory.wiez-prattle@fictionalmedia.co.uk
Nephew of the infamous Constance Prattle who managed to use her connections to get him the job. Knows very little about anything, and likes it that way.

Assistant Crisis-Media Facilitator
Angharad ‘Harry’ Davies
Claire Bateman
harry.davies@fictionalmedia.co.uk
Escaped her native country of Wales in her teens to join up as part of, the now defunct, GCHQ crypto-cadets programme. A born organiser, she is an island of calm in the most tumultuous storm.

NARRATIVE

Executive Narrative Director
Miss Ama H. Tria
Annette Mees
ama.tria@fictionalmedia.co.uk
Connector of people and experiences. Designer of narrative realities. Co-creator of Eye of the Day. Notorious transformational activist in her native Holland during her youth.

Lead Narrative Researcher
Rob Courgette
Tom George
rob.courgette@fictionalmedia.co.uk

Senior Narrative Facilitator
Armitage Shanks
Sean Cameron
armitage.shanks@fictionalmedia.co.uk

Junior Narrative Mismanager
Timothy Struttleworth
Tom Young
timothy.struttleworth@fictionalmedia.co.uk

Junior Narrative Developer
Callan Stefani
Jon Weinbren
callan.stefani@fictionalmedia.co.uk
Dropped out of med school to follow dream of becoming writer. Rapidly turned into nightmare spate of dead-end McJobs. Currently on work placement at FM, briefed to ‘just make things up, ok?’

Associate Narrative Manipulator
Professor Murray Fox
David Varela
murray.fox@fictionalmedia.co.uk
Acclaimed narratological thought-leader. Author of the seminal ‘Cracks in the Fifth Wall’ and ‘Pull the Strings!’ (Seaside Press).

Assistant Narrative Analyst
Isobel Matheson
Holly Gramazio
isobel.matheson@fictionalmedia.co.uk
Fears cats, likes colour-coded notes, and signed up as a long-distance adult student at a US university in order to get the first facebook account in Britain.


FICTION

Executive Fiction Analyst
Jerry Tuck
Paul Bennun
jerry.tuck@fictionalmedia.co.uk
I’m “JT” Tuck – you give me fiction, I analyze it!! Worked for HMG (can’t say much ;-) and run creative writing courses, like EVERYWHERE

Lead Fiction Facilitator
Bells Pike
Jessica Braham
bells.pike@fictionalmedia.co.uk

Senior Fiction Developer
Big Boss K
Tom Dillon Koenig
big.boss.k@fictionalmedia.co.uk

Junior Fiction Mismanager
Penelope Jeopardy
Lyndsey Winship
penelope.jeopardy@fictionalmedia.co.uk

Associate Fiction Developer
Lickety Split
Nina Steiger
lickety.split@fictionalmedia.co.uk
Maker of mosaic and collage. Plays the dulcimer.

Associate Fiction Producer
Squishband
Richard White
squishband@fictionalmedia.co.uk
Somehow the big man just got twisted too far and snapped. He used to be the one in the know that made things tick. Now he doesn’t know who he is.

LOCATION

Executive Location Analyst
Francis Barking
Gary Campbell
francis.barking@fictionalmedia.co.uk
Without realising how, has got himself this job. Last seen propping up the bar in the French House. Or was it the Groucho Club?

Lead Location Researcher
Red Banshee
Sonja D’Cruze
red.banshee@fictionalmedia.co.uk

Senior Location Facilitator
Francis Hewitt
Adam McGrath
francis.hewitt@fictionalmedia.co.uk

Junior Location Presenter
Jeff McHuthtash
David McGuire
jeff.mchuthtash@fictionalmedia.co.uk

Assistant Location Analyst
Mister Huld
Sam Bailey
mister.huld@fictionalmedia.co.uk


CRISIS

Executive Crisis Mismanager
Klaatu Barada
Alec East
klaatu.barada@fictionalmedia.co.uk
Pioneer of Bubble2.0. Led the “MP3 is Killing Home-Taping” campaign. Co-founder of youTorrent.com, providing the computer-illiterate with pirate films and episodes of Heroes on VHS.

Executive Crisis Co-ordinator
Sophia Noodle
Melissa Norman
sophia.noodle@fictionalmedia.co.uk
Millionaire at 23 from sale of aura cleansing kit and publishing co. reported to offer chakra tuning to most world governments. Ex-Israeli solder and now professional picnic planner and ‘one world’ evangelist.

Executive Crisis Facilitator
Dean Street
Adam Hoyle
dean.street@fictionalmedia.co.uk
Severely injured by cutting edge technology, Dean is now a consultant blue tie thinker to anyone with enough venture capital.

Assistant Crisis-Media Facilitator
Angharad ‘Harry’ Davies
Claire Bateman
harry.davies@fictionalmedia.co.uk
Escaped her native country of Wales in her teens to join up as part of, the now defunct, GCHQ crypto-cadets programme. A born organiser, she is an island of calm in the most tumultuous storm.


ASSOCIATES - RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

Associate Research Analyst
Agnes Weir
Fiona French
agnes.weir@fictionalmedia.co.uk
Silver surfer with golden retriever; author of “Squirrel Soup: and other garden recipes” (out-of-print).

Associate Development Mismanager and
GPS-Pirate
Jim Lawn-Silo
Jon Williams
jim.lawn-silo@fictionalmedia.co.uk
Born in Russia 1983 Jim, the bastard love child of a Bolshevik and American oil Tycoon is often found surfing the open seas of the Internet, tagging GPS locations with strange data-Treasure and generally being rather piratey… Yarrr.

Associate Research Developer
Angry Soups
Guy Parsons
angry.soups@fictionalmedia.co.uk
Formerly a mild-mannered Soup, he got dissed by another soup and became Angry, remaining Angry to this day. Such is the life of a soup. (The constituent ingredients of the soup remain impervious to chemical analysis.)

Associate Research Designer
Hopey Hernandez
Sam Hoyle
hopey.hernandez@fictionalmedia.co.uk


Having worked in its late night bars and partied around the seedier side of Soho, girl-about-Soho Hopey is looking forward to seeing a different side to Soho during daylight hours.

Associate Development Director
Pierre de Bhreu
Marc D'Souza
pierre.debhreu@fictionalmedia.co.uk


Descending from one of the first French families to reside in Spitalfields, frequenting Soho after Sunday worship is a tradition that I maintain till today.

Associate Research Director
Sanderson Clayton III
Tom Shelley
sanderson.clayton.iii@fictionalmedia.co.uk


Psychic invstigator, drunk time traveller and eternal soho citizen. Writer for the Nightly Information. Famously magnanimous.

Associate Development Analyst
Marîd Audran
Jeremy Ettinghausen
marid.audran@fictionalmedia.co.uk


Marîd Audran is a small scale operator and hustler from the Budayeen, the entertainment/criminal quarter of an unnamed Middle-Eastern city. Marîd is truly the last of the independents.

Associate Development Provisor
John Smith
Ed Whyman
john.smith@fictionalmedia.co.uk


No distinctive features, average in every way (mean median and mode).

Associate Research Editor
Kweekeg Fujimori
Grethe Mitchell
kweekeg.fujimori@fictionalmedia.co.uk


Kweekeg (Kwee for short) is part Pacific islander part Norwegian. Recruited at the age of 9 years into the infamous child spy network, the Child International Association). Retired at 14 and followed a number of paths including film-making and writing. Made headline news marrying Starry Fujimori, a Yakuza connected Japanese pop star, later found dead in London in mysterious circumstances. Disappeared from view for a number of years but was spotted doing charity work in Africa.


Associate Research Deducer
Sindon T. Caramel
Dan Fedorowicz
sindon.t.caramel@fictionalmedia.co.uk


(via Junk FedEx)
providing logistical support to large-scale communication companies stop
trade advocate and anti-insurgency unit commander stop

Associate Development Editor
The Intrepid Lady Fox
Rain Ashford

intrepid.lady.fox@fictionalmedia.co.uk



Daring time-traveling adventuress, she spends her life between 19th Century Soho and the future solving mysteries and annihilating baddies in fabulous attire!

Associate Research Wrangler
Joe Chip
Adam Crowe
joe.chip@fictionalmedia.co.uk


Joe Chip is a Psionic talent scout, recruiting on behalf of an secretive 'prudence organisation', specialising in Anti-Psi abilities. Joe's 'deep cover' is a middle-management job at the Ferris & Brockman Retail Credit Auditing and Analysis Agency .

SUSPENDED
Until Further Notice For Anti-Company Activity

Ferdel Green
Jesse Quinones
ferdel.green@fictionalmedia.co.uk
Nicaraguan retired drug smuggler. Transplanted to Soho where he frequents the Sunset Strip on a daily basis, and writes poems about the dancers. Likes cigars.

Bunny Laker
Abi Zakarian
bunny.laker@fictionalmedia.co.uk
Founder of the Prada Meinhof Institute for Cultural Fedayee. Co-pioneer of the (banned in 22 countries) Thirteen-step program ™. Currently fighting extradition to Canada on multiple kidnapping and fraud charges.

Custard Pie
Michael Bhim
custard.pie@fictionalmedia.co.uk
Expelled from the Institute of Ventriloquism (discipline and concentration issues). Currently a renegade for hire hustling and taking advantage of the people in Soho. A pub brawl enthusiast. Considers himself a romantic, good listener, and lover of people.

Max Paine

Anders Lustgarten
max.paine@fictionalmedia.co.uk
Marxist linebacker and one-man barricade. Uniting the shirkers of the world, by any means necessary. Dislikes: moral dilettantism, voracious consumerism, aubergine.

J Pruffock
Lucy Dichmont
j.pruffock@fictionalmedia.co.uk

Executive Interests

Executives' particular interests follow.

Players of The Soho Project are invited to write to Executives for a possible reward of bonus points if they have done or plan to do something that helps their published agenda.

Of course, the rumours that Executives may have additional secret agendas are completely unfounded.

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Dr Bill Savage
Executive Play Director
bill.savage@fictionalmedia.co.uk

I am a scientist. What I enjoy most is experimentation and the pushing of boundaries, the revelation of new knowledge and a passion for improvement in all things. If you can build a better mousetrap, you might catch my eye.


Jim Rummy
Executive Reality Facilitator
jim.rummy@fictionalmedia.co.uk

If this project is to be financially successful, it needs to appeal to a mainstream audience. That’s why I want submissions that make minimal intellectual and cultural demands on the viewer: raw sex, mindless humour and lavish gore will all be generously rewarded. Give the people what they want.


Yatima Skaffen & Henri Belloq
Executive Media Co-Directors
yatima.skaffen@fictionalmedia.co.uk
henri.belloq@fictionalmedia.co.uk

Together, we have colluded on many secret projects, and our raison d’etre has always been a desire to flout convention. Breaking rules, deceiving the public, subverting genres and defying expectations are all close to our hearts.


Ama Tria
Executive Narrative Director
ama.tria@fictionalmedia.co.uk

I believe that the driving force behind any media company is creativity. I will award bonus points to submissions that show outstanding artistic flair and creative imagination.



Jerry Tuck
Executive Fiction Analyst
jerry.tuck@fictionalmedia.co.uk

My focus is on the craft. I get a real kick out of seeing the technical skill of a creative team: good editing, camerawork, a fine performance, an accomplished piece of work – that’s what I’m looking for.


Francis Barking
Executive Location Analyst
francis.barking@fictionalmedia.co.uk

As an enthusiast of place and space, I will be putting great emphasis on each team's choice of location. I'd like to see spectacular staging, the creative use of Soho's less obvious corners, and the repurposing of locations for unexpected activities.


Major Brian Cruikshank
Executive Security Director
major.cruikshank@fictionalmedia.co.uk

As a military man, I have always valued precision and logistical co-ordination - as well as ruthlessness, of course. If I see these values in a submission, I may well confer bonus points.