Let me tell you a story: teaching transmedia in HE

Bolton Storyworld, a transmedia platform, is a practice based research project at the University of Bolton run by students and staff and supported by a Manchester based transmedia production company, Bellyfeel. Together we have been interested in discovering the most effective ways to write, produce, and to teach the necessary skills for transmedia, an emerging form of production. We have run 3 trials of a locally based interactive project as prototypes. These have helped us make some interesting discoveries about how to write effectively for the form and how to teach it as part of a programme of media production at HE level. To date we have analysed our work in relation to new media theorists and practices Zaluczkowska & Robinson (2014). This article reports a work in progress that aims to place the outcomes much more firmly in an educational context.

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