Alan Coltman

Paul Green
Birth Date	1972
Occupation	Director Editor Voice Actor Script Writer

Alan Coltman (*1972) is a British film director, who studied his art at the Northern Film School of Sheffield Hallam University. In Realms of the Haunting, he is credited for direction and editing, as well as some of the voice acting and additional dialogue.

Shooting the full motion video content for Realms of the Haunting was realised with the help of a small camera crew and took about six weeks to complete, "filmed all in one cramped room," resulting in 25 hours of footage which had to be narrowed down to a meagre 2 hours for the finished product.

The texture for the Suits of Armor that we come across in various parts of the Mansion is titled ARMOR1.knight for alan.bmp, apparently an allusion to Alan, the director of Realms of the Haunting.

Other videogame productions that Alan has been involved in include Judge Dredd, Hardwar (again working with Dave Roberts who play Aelf in Realms of the Haunting), Hogs of War, and Superman: Shadow of Apokolips.

Collaboration with Sean Bean

In 2009, Coltman produced a short anti-war film called "Drumhead", a collaboration with British actor Sean Bean (known for his role as Boromir in the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, adapted by Peter Jackson) and Sheffield-based electronic band The Black Dog. In it, Sean is reading a poem about non-violence called Strange Meeting, written by officer and poet Wilfred Owen in 1918, preceding his untimely death while crossing the Sambre-Oise canal only a week before the Battle of the Sambre was ended by the signing of the First Armistice at Compiègne on November 11th 1918. The production received the award for Best International Short Film at the Polar Film Festival 2009 in Turku, Finland.

Ludography

• VR Soccer '96 (1995)
• Micro Machines (1997)
• Judge Dredd (1997)
• Fragile Allegiance (1997)
• Actua Soccer 2 (1997)
• N2O Nitrous Oxide (1998)
• Hardwar (1998)
• Hogs of War (2000)
• UEFA Challenge (2001)
• Superman Shadow of Apokolips (2002)

Gallery

A magazine photograph of the Realms of the Haunting team (sans Tony Crowther). Left to right: Darren Lambourne, Paul Green, Darren Mills, Ira Hill, Keith Donald, Chris Pepper, Alan Coltman. Image courtesy of the Gremlin Archive

Alan with Roger Franke (Pelador) and Dave Roberts (Aelf) in the Making-of video for ROTH, circa 1996.

The crew of Realms of the Haunting. Image courtesy of PC Power #33.

Links

• Alan's developer sheet on Mobygames
• Alan's LinkedIn profile
• Alan's Twitter account
• Alan's youtube account
• Alan on his cooperation with Sean Bean for Drumhead

References