BBC: Media Beyond the Screen
The BBC, venerable news organization and purveyor of countless visionary documentaries and educational films via traditional formats, is exploring the potential for creating meaningful media in augmented reality. Leveraging lightweight headsets and experimental content created in-house, the team has begun asking educators and students how they imagine these Augmented Reality (AR) experiences impacting the ways they are learning about the world around them.
Assignment Idea: Impactful Journalism
Description
Virtual and augmented reality continues to change the way that many media outlets are thinking about how they deliver content to consumers. Whether it is augmented reality that explains events as part of a related article by the Washington Post, CNN partnering with virtual reality outlet, Within to create and deliver virtual reality journalism, the New York Times creating a series of 360 videos and much more, what as a consumer would enhance your experience of understanding the important components of a story? What of the three main possibilities do you think would be easiest to create for mass media adoption?
Subject Areas
Communications (Corporate), English
Deliverables
- a chosen news story from the resources in the description section that has an integrated immersive experience
- a blog post on its application to the news story and your impressions of the integration of immersive
- a found news story (current or from the past few years)
- a blog post about what type of immersive journalism would you recommend to enhance the media coverage and why
- a video presentation, refining and expanding the blog post (optional)